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Berytech and ELCIM/IRI announce the names of the four research teams selected to join the IP Valorization Grants Program and receive a $25,000 innovation voucher.
The objective of Berytech through its ACT Smart Innovation Hub project is creating opportunities for innovators through different pillars including IP Valorization – valorizing Lebanese Research to commercialization and industry advancement.
Four grants of $25,000 each are available through the ACT Smart Innovation Hub program, co-funded by The Kingdom of The Netherlands and Berytech.
Projects need to be innovations in Agri-food (Tech, Engineering, Food innovation) or Cleantech (Renewable Energy, Waste and Water Valorization)
The Euro Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernisation (ELCIM) is one of the leading Industrial support centers in Lebanon. Created by the European Union and the Lebanese government and initially funded by the EU , ELCIM provides specialized business and technical services to all sectors of the Lebanese Industry since the year 2001. Since 2008, ELCIM has been completely funded and supported by the IRI.
ELCIM has performed more than 1,850 technical assistance activities in public and private trainings, business assessments, financial assistance, feasibility studies, and access to loans. Additionally, ELCIM developed an ICT Cluster (the Lebanon SoftShore Cluster) which supports leading Lebanese software companies access international markets. On the research and innovation levels, ELCIM developed a Food Advisory Unit as well as a Scientific Platform (managed by the Centre for Innovation and Technology) which aim is to strengthen the linkage between academic institutions and manufacturing enterprises.
Some of its current programs include the ELCIM SME Support Programme (ESSP) providing co-financed technical assistance to small and medium enterprises and the Innovation Vouchers Program (managed by the CIT) which provided voucher grants to around 30 researchers, entrepreneurs and academic institutions.
IP Valorization is one of our tools for fostering innovation under the Agri-Food and Cleantech sectors, and we are very proud to be working with ELCIM-IRI as our implementing partners.
Ramy Boujawdeh – Deputy General Manager at Berytech and Director of ACT Smart Innovation Hub
The Kingdom of The Netherlands has co-funded Berytech’s ACT Smart Innovation Hub.
The Netherlands supports programs that are aimed at strengthening the Lebanese social infrastructure and improving prospects for the Lebanese. Indeed, the current situation in Lebanon shows even more than before that innovation and job creation for youth are needed.
ELCIM has always supported the development of research within academic institutions and research centers, particularly through the Centre for Innovation and Technology at IRI, recognizing the advantage and potential of our local researchers.
Naji Abi Zeid, ELCIM Director
The 4 grants were open to researchers within an academic institution or research center with innovations in Agri-food as well as Cleantech.
The Grants are available to Researchers within an Academic Institution or Research Center. The research project should lead to an independent commercial entity (i.e. there are no exclusivity signed with a corporation)
The sectors covered include innovations in :
Main Criteria
Contractual Criteria
The innovation voucher is a grant of $25,000 and will be managed by Berytech.
Eligible costs
Non-Eligible costs
Within the 6-month coaching period the grantee should:
If you have any questions about the IP Valorization Grants Program, please email us on elcim@elcim-lb.org, or salah.awad@berytech.org and we will get back to you.
As a member of the Global Compact Network Lebanon, Berytech enacts the 10 principles of the UNGC and the IP Valorization Grants Program falls under Berytech’s mission to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
The IP Valorization Grants Program is under the ACT Smart Innovation Hub, a new out-of-the-box approach by Berytech aimed at strengthening business advancement and job creation in the Agri-food and Cleantech sectors in Lebanon. Learn more.
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