Key Learnings: Berytech Learning Series on Clean Technology
Posted on June 30, 2020
Key learnings from Berytech’s Cleantech Learning Series 2020, which gathered experts and entrepreneurs in weekly webinars to discuss the challenges in the Cleantech sector and how to innovate solutions in waste management, water and wastewater management and renewable energy.
Impact Rise Program: Kwikpak, a Dignified Shelter for the Displaced
Posted on June 30, 2020
Berytech caught up with architect Fatima Khaled to discuss her journey with Kwikpak Shelter as she has recently joined Berytech’s Impact Rise program with her two partners Sima el Sheikh and Nadin el Hayek.
Agri-food Innovation: Surviving and Thriving in Times of Adversity
Posted on June 17, 2020
Berytech reached out to members of the QOOT Cluster to understand how they survived and thrived during these times of adversity, from improving efficiency, innovating new products, growing exports and online sales, and focusing on the community.
World Environment Day: TheBeeHaus Brings Technology to the Apiary
Posted on June 5, 2020
The theme for this year’s World Environment Day is Biodiversity. As we focus on biodiversity, we cannot but highlight the interdependency of biodiversity and bees. For the occasion, Berytech spoke to Nagi Abdelnour and Yazid Boustani, co-founders of TheBeeHaus startup, currently enrolled in our Agrytech Accelerator Program.
World Food Safety Day: Food Safety, Everyone's Business
Posted on June 5, 2020
On World Food Safety Day, Nadine Khoury – COO of Robinson Agri and President of the QOOT Agri-Food Innovation Cluster in Lebanon, writes a blog for Berytech on the best practices they have been implementing to help observe the principles of food safety throughout the chain of agricultural production in Lebanon.
World No-Tobacco Day: new smoking reduction tool helps guide smokers
Posted on May 31, 2020
For World No-Tobacco Day 2020, Berytech brings you a blog post written by the team at Lebanese startup Slighter – a lifestyle change solution to help master your smoking habit and reduce cigarette consumption, and a Berytech Fund II portfolio startup.
It is time to get serious about the tobacco epidemic
Posted on May 31, 2020
Dr. Hala Kahi, Family Medicine Specialist, Tobacco Treatment Specialist and Tobacco Free Initiative board member writes a special blog for Berytech on the occasion of World No-Tobacco Day 2020.
Khoder Eid is Changing Waste Management Culture One House at a Time
Posted on May 29, 2020
Berytech profiles one of the Impact Rise Social Entrepreneurship Program beneficiaries, Green Track, a social enterprise for a sustainable waste management system, that aims to solve the waste crisis in Lebanon through sorting at the source and recycling projects lead by the Green Women Team.
29 actionable recommendations to boost technology transfer & commercialization in Lebanon
Posted on May 14, 2020
Experts were hired by Berytech to conduct the Technical Assistance Mission to propose a methodology able to empower researchers and students’ end of year projects in the process of turning their research projects into viable businesses.
Lebanese Social Enterprises and their Digital Academic Support Services
Posted on May 5, 2020
Alfanar, venture philanthropy organization and Berytech’s partner in supporting the Impact Rise Social Innovation Program, writes about the Lebanese social enterprises supporting students with their digital academic services.