During this 24-month intervention, Acted aims to enhance the circular economy transition for MSMEs in agriculture and agri-food value chains in Lebanon’s Bekaa and Shouf regions. By analysing the MSME landscape, Acted will generate a circular economy value chain MSME support report. The project will empower 15 Micro Enterprises by providing increased income and job opportunities through gender equality training, resource and technical assessments, and the creation of tailored resource management and business support plans, along with in-kind and/or technical support. Additionally, 25 MSMEs will be supported for job creation, aligning with decent work standards through resource and technical gap assessments, business development, and a 3Zero training on a decent work, environmental protection, and inclusion plan. Finally, Acted will encourage community engagement through awareness campaigns, Climate-wise modules, and a 3Zero Circular Economy Forum as part of Acted’s 3Zero House initiative, fostering collaboration and promoting circular economy practices.

The SwitchMed Program, implemented by Fondation Diane, aims at fostering entrepreneurship through promoting inclusive green growth and job creation in Lebanon. It also aims at supporting the transition to a greener, more circular, and fairer economy by efficiently leveraging the social and networking capital entrepreneurialism brings, providing services and products to a more integrated industrial system and harnessing regulatory and economic instruments. The project intends to strengthen the national eco-system and to improve synergies and service integration.

The project aims at providing support and promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE/EE) technologies that are innovating in Lebanon. Innovative solutions are provided with hands-on tools, coaching and mentorship to be able to validate their value propositions and scale up their businesses, thus enabling a flexible energy production, transmission and consumption, allowing for a higher, cost-effective use of renewables and empowering a new generation of energy consumers.

The INVESTMED project launched a call for proposals to award a maximum of 3 sub-grants to Business Support Organizations (BSOs) to develop and offer coaching and mentoring services to the MSMEs/start-ups and recently established enterprises to be financially supported by the INVESTMED project.

A component within SwitchMed that focuses on Sustainable Blue Economy. It was added in 2020 and includes specific activities to be performed under the demonstration component of SwitchMed. The following activity of the Blue Economy additional component concerns the identification of opportunities and stakeholders for sustainable entrepreneurship in the Blue Economy sectors.

The YLEAP aims at fostering green infrastructure through the creation of a network of innovation support organizations in Lebanon. The project helped in building the organizational capacity and strengthening the sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem in Lebanon through the development of an exchange platform, a community of practitioners and the organization of green entrepreneurship labs.

The Accelerator is designed with the needs and objectives of green impact businesses in mind. It combines proven acceleration approaches with innovative formats and new topics to help develop feasible financing strategies, increase client base, deliver on impactful value propositions and successfully raise investments to scale operations.

Competition that happens every year where the winner will go physically to an incubation program at Station F – the 2nd winner will attend via zoom.

It is a 6 months acceleration program for startup to scale up out of the country.

It is an acceleration program for startups with valid MVP, enabling entrepreneurs to get traction and helping them build sustainable growth.

The Create Program is a 3-month, part-time program scheduled in evenings and on weekends. It is destined for people with a clear project in mind who are serious about developing it. It is focused on setting the right business model and your business plan.

Changelabs Launches Lebanon’s Leading Scale-Up Accelerator for Social Enterprises Impacting Migrants, Refugees, and the Lebanese Hosting Community.
This flagship new program will admit 30 scale-ups over two cohorts, and provide in-cash and-kind funding in addition to heavy operating support to admitted scale-ups. In Lebanon, Changelabs is running the program in partnership with FMO (the Dutch Entrepreneurship Development Bank), Al Asfari Foundation, Amazon, and a group of Lebanese corporations, NGOs, and other partners. The program will admit and work closely with 30 leading scale-ups in Lebanon, across 2 cohorts (1 per annum). Each scale-up will receive funding, technology and product build-out support, and day-to-day hands-on operating partner that will help scale up their social entreprise.

The Changelabs Lebanon Fintech For a Future program is a one-of-a-kind accelerator for idea-stage startups operating in or out of Lebanon.
This accelerator seeks to support Lebanese entrepreneurs coming up with innovative solutions in the fintech space, with a particular focus on ideas that deliver financial inclusion, complement the banking sector, or allow consumers to execute financial transactions in a trusted manner.
Made possible by Sanad Entrepreneurship Academy, the Asfari Foundation, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Berytech is a partner of STAND Up! Sustainable Textile Action for Networking and Development of circular economy business ventures in the Mediterranean, an EU-funded project under the ENI CBC Med programme.

The STAND Up! project addresses the need for transition to an environmentally and socially responsible circular model in the textile sector, a traditional key industry in the Mediterranean with an undoubtful cross-border nature.

The project intends to support textile entrepreneurs and eco-innovative ventures in 5 participating countries and help them seize the business opportunities and employment that the green evolution will inevitably generate in the region.

STAND Up! goal is ambitious and so is its scope with many actions to be undertaken in training, financial grants, market stimulation, technology transfer, Intellectual Property Rights protection, etc.

As a result, the SMEs of the sector will be more competitive and, at aggregate level, the value chain will be strengthened, and new cross-border linkages established.

Berytech, in the context of the EU-funded GIMED Project, has launched a call for applications for established early-stage green startups working on eco-innovative products or services, providing them with the support they need to grow their ventures, build green strategies and regional business connections, and have better access to finance and market opportunities in the Mediterranean.

Eco-innovators running early-stage businesses will get the chance to develop and strengthen their capacities in order to secure investments and business opportunities, enhance their environmental and social value creation, improve their sustainability, support product and service development and plan for success in the green and circular market in the Mediterranean.

It’s an acceleration program targeting idea stage startups offering young entrepreneurs an intensive life-changing experience to help them turn their innovative ideas into viable and investable startup businesses.

In its third year, we launched OMDI 3 with 5 projects who continued receiving funding and technical support. As a continuation of the previous OMDI 1 and OMDI 2, 5 projects were selected to receive funding for 2022 from the Crisis and Support Center of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, in partnership with La Guilde.

Third pillar of the TABADOL program, this 4 month program supports CSOs in developing innovative solutions to local challenges, while sustaining the change they are leading in their communities.
The program includes participants from Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria.

The Tabadol Creathon is a series of collective brainstorming workshops, to transform working models of civil society organizations in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan into sustainable models.

The Tabadol Fellowship matches 10 social entrepreneurs with 10 civil society organizations to foster innovation and collaboration, as CSOs develop creative solutions to sustain the change they are leading in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.Thematic areas range from innovation in education, independent media to active citizenship and social inclusion.

The Sprout program, is a green entrepreneurship program with a series of training sessions and study tours to learn from successfully-established green Lebanese entrepreneurs.
Whether you are into recycling, up-cycling, waste management, sustainable agriculture, construction material, alternative energy solutions… you name it. Whatever your idea or sector is and wherever you are in your early idea stage, join Sprout program now!

GIL aims to provide increased income generation opportunities for youth through the development of Entrepreneurship and digital skills. Thematic green entrepreneurship classes are run in certain areas throughout the year. Following ideation, youth pitch for a chance to receive coaching & incubation support along wih seed funding to go forward with their business idea.

Ongoing programs covering different entrepreneurship themes and targeting high school & university students as well as young entrepreneurs in the very first phases of their journey.

CentreMINE is a Center for careers, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Lebanese University (established in 2018). CentreMINE vision is to be a learning hub recognized by the Lebanese University students as an enhancement of their lives. Its mission is to empower the Lebanese University students by offering them equitable & FREE access to skills improvement & employment opportunities for career development.
CentreMINE is a Center for careers, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Lebanese University (established in 2018). CentreMINE vision is to be a learning hub recognized by the Lebanese University students as an enhancement of their lives. Its mission is to empower the Lebanese University students by offering them equitable & FREE access to skills improvement & employment opportunities for career development.
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1 – Holistic Land Design – Eedama’s team is able to design a space with a holistic view of the environment, with all its components creating an interwoven fabric: food, waste, water, soil, animals, plants, people, and structures. The team assists architects, clients and students in analyzing and improving their design in order to achieve their sustainability goals.
2 – Sustainable Learning Spaces – Eedama assesses the site, sets eco-friendly installations (Farming, compost, water, solar energy, urban planning) . We then design proposals and 3d renders that we further implement and maintain. Additionally, we offer training sessions and manuals.
3 – Mobile installations – Eedama designs and delivers various installations that can be designed all together or separately. These installations tackle an item of the interaction between humans and their environment (both natural and urban). Include:Green Walls / Roofs – Green Houses – Hydroponics systems- Vertical Gardening Towers- Aquaponics systems – Upcycled & reclaimed furniture- Compost systems- Organic gardens.

EcoConsulting specializes in eco-building and is also actively involved in social, economic, and environmental sustainability, including: environmental & circular economy advice, creating environmental education content & activities, carbon footprint analysis, and coaching eco-entrepreneurs.

EcoConsulting specializes in eco-building and is also actively involved in social, economic, and environmental sustainability, including: environmental & circular economy advice, creating environmental education content & activities, carbon footprint analysis, and coaching eco-entrepreneurs.

EcoConsulting specializes in eco-building and is also actively involved in social, economic, and environmental sustainability, including: environmental & circular economy advice, creating environmental education content & activities, carbon footprint analysis, and coaching eco-entrepreneurs.

EcoConsulting specializes in eco-building and is also actively involved in social, economic, and environmental sustainability, including: environmental & circular economy advice, creating environmental education content & activities, carbon footprint analysis, and coaching eco-entrepreneurs.

WHO?
For-profit social enterprises, non-profit organizations, or initiatives that are not yet registered are all eligible to apply.

WHY?
The purpose of ACSI2 is to build the enterprises’ capacity with weekly training and mentorship facilitated by Bloom in partnership with the Asfari Foundation. Through Bloom’s online platform, training pedagogy, networks of experts, and customized curriculum, participating enterprises will develop their ideas and prototypes into functioning business ideas.

HOW?
We leverage proven world-class training and support methods, along with the Bloom platform, to provide high impact training and mentoring to teams, wherever they are.

WHAT?
ACSI is a 4 month virtual accelerator (November 2022-March 2023) where 10 selected early and prototype stage teams will receive intense training and mentorship support, financial support (up to £4000 ), and connections to other supporters and opportunities to maximize impact of each initiative.

The FANTASMEEM ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ????????? was delivered by the Goethe Institut in partnership with EcoConsulting to further support the Cultural and Creative Industries in Lebanon.
Twenty-five creative entrepreneurs and design freelancers from various fields of design were selected to participate in successive training and knowledge transfer sessions, capacity building webinars and technical workshops, access to expertise, individual coaching, individual mentoring, and community building activities. The focus was on sustainable design and how to transition their business ideas to circular business models, following the SwitchMed Green Entrepreneurship methodology and using www.theswitchers.org platform for eco-entrepreneurs.

WHO?
For-profit social enterprises, non-profit organizations, or initiatives that are not yet registered are all eligible to apply.

WHY?
The purpose of ACSI2 is to build the enterprises’ capacity with weekly training and mentorship facilitated by Bloom in partnership with the Asfari Foundation. Through Bloom’s online platform, training pedagogy, networks of experts, and customized curriculum, participating enterprises will develop their ideas and prototypes into functioning business ideas.

HOW?
We leverage proven world-class training and support methods, along with the Bloom platform, to provide high impact training and mentoring to teams, wherever they are.

WHAT?
ACSI is a 4 month virtual accelerator (November 2022-March 2023) where 10 selected early and prototype stage teams will receive intense training and mentorship support, financial support (up to £4000 ), and connections to other supporters and opportunities to maximize impact of each initiative.

Designed for women-led social enterprises focusing on building impactful solutions in culture, mindset, and education, this program is almost entirely remote and online and so accessible to companies across MENA + Africa (including Armenia).

Safir project aims at supporting youth in the achievement of the SDGs in 9 countries across the MENA region through creating a favorable environment that fosters youth participation in the development of entrepreneurial projects with socio-cultural and environmental impact.

Startups and micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Mediterranean region face burgeoning economic and environmental challenges as they strive to remain competitive, sustainable, innovative, and extend their reach to international markets. INVESTMED aims to support such budding enterprises in three Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs), Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia, with particular focus on on young people and women current and aspiring entrepreneurs.

The Nucleus Ventures is running the Energy Innovation Hub Program, powered by UNDP, funded by the European Union, and in partnership with Ovation and LAU-FMIC.The program aims to drive Lebanon towards cleaner energy through fostering the creativity of its current innovators. With average investment tickets reaching up to $25,000, the program will help transform ideas into high-growth companies with sustainable solutions, fulfilling the program’s motto, “Transitioning to Renewable Energy”.

Catalyzing Innovations From Farm To Fork. Through the third edition of the Agrytech Accelerator Program and with support from the Kingdom of The Netherlands, Berytech continues to source the top startups with disruptive innovations in the Agri-Food sector and provide them with the adequate technical and business resources as well as community support to scale their ideas into successful businesses with global impact.

The NEX-LABS project funded by ENI CBCMED aims to support the implementation of clean technologies for sustainable and resilient growth of agri-food sector production based on a more efficient use of energy (renewable/solar solutions) and water (wastewater treatment, water harvesting or reuse solutions) in Mediterranean Partner Countries region thanks to the contribution of ICT such as blockchain technology, Internet or the Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Big Data.

The PHEMAC project is co-funded by the European Union under the PRIMA program. This project consists of creating an interactive IHUB platform which aims to capitalize on the results and best practices of the innovative projects carried out and those in progress linked to NEXUS and more particularly in the fields of water and agriculture in the Euro-Mediterranean region. PHEMAC aims to develop and disseminate an interactive platform that will gather and share best practices focused on PRIMA SRIA priorities, involving a wide range of stakeholders from the farming system, water management and agri-food sectors.

Catalyzing Cleantech Innovations Clean technologies are taking center stage in creating smarter and more sustainable ways of living in the face of quick evolving environmental challenges. Berytech is catalyzing cleantech innovations through a yearly three-phase program that allows cleantech entrepreneurs grow their startup from an idea into a scalable business.

TRANSDAIRY, coordinated by the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy), aims to enhance the technological transfer among research, industry and SMEs in the fields of Key Enabling Technologies applied to the Dairy Value Chain, by the creation of Living Labs, the increase of institutional capacities through training, and the development of market intelligence for sustainability and consolidation of spin-offs.

Startups and micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Mediterranean region face burgeoning economic and environmental challenges as they strive to remain competitive, sustainable, innovative, and extend their reach to international markets. INVESTMED aims to support such budding enterprises in three Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs), Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia, with particular focus on on young people and women current and aspiring entrepreneurs.

The main objective of SEMD is to contribute to strengthening the social entrepreneurship ecosystem that enables the development of innovative entrepreneurial solutions to migration & development challenges in Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon. It includes ecosystem exchange events, capacity building for support organizations, and a Scale-up for Impact program for social entrepreneurs.

This project consists of conducting a comprehensive analysis of the current and potential batteries value chain in Lebanon and of promoting innovative renewable energy solutions for SMEs.

GIL aims to provide increased income generation opportunities for youth through the development of Entrepreneurship and digital skills. Thematic green entrepreneurship classes are run in certain areas throughout the year. Following ideation, youth pitch for a chance to receive coaching & incubation support along wih seed funding to go forward with their business idea.

To be updated soon.

SPARK helps entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into viable solutions, validate their solutions with a customer-centric and international focus and turn their solutions into scalable business.

The Circular Hub is a physical and online space created by EcoConsulting to learn about the environment, the circular economy, sustainability, climate change as well as eco & social entrepreneurship, through a variety of seminars, workshops, activities & games. The Circular Hub offers four knowledge-sharing tracks: a. The Circular Economy & Eco-Design b. Green Buildings & Sustainable Neighborhoods c. Sustainability, Climate Change & Environmental Knowledge d. Eco Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation.

We are supporting 10 SMEs working in the circular economy value chains and aim to create employment through accelerated workshops. We have started phase 1 on Nov 08; out of the selected startups, 5 will be shortlisted for the Halaqa program and receive technical expert support with $10K no-equity funding, over a 6-month period.

Proquale specializes in green and social entrepreneurs support including: environmental & circular economy advice, social entrepreneurship design and advise, strategy, business and management coaching for entrepreneurs.

The French Embassy and the Institut français du Liban with makesense are launching the second call for application to Omdi أمضي: a program to support young citizen-based initiatives and startups that are solving a local challenge in Lebanon. This program includes up to 20 000 USD grants, one to one coaching, mentoring from experts, and community support. The program is looking for environmental/social startups/projects that have been on the market for more than a year, and supported by or linked to a municipality. We will be selecting 3 or 4 projects to join the existing 10 projects that joined in 2020.

The Water Innovation Lab (WIL) program serves to support the development of youth-led solutions to water challenges and engage a diverse network of collaborators. The past decade has seen tremendous success with the expansion of the WIL program globally which has to date delivered 17 programs, across 5 continents, 9 countries, and has trained 1,350 young water leaders, engaged 275 mentors, and initiated 100+ water innovation projects.

We are supporting youth to develop a successful and creative business idea by conducting Ideation online sessions with Lynda Achkouty.

1 – Holistic Land Design – Eedama’s team is able to design a space with a holistic view of the environment, with all its components creating an interwoven fabric: food, waste, water, soil, animals, plants, people, and structures. The team assists architects, clients and students in analyzing and improving their design in order to achieve their sustainability goals.
2 – Sustainable Learning Spaces – Eedama assesses the site, sets eco-friendly installations (Farming, compost, water, solar energy, urban planning) . We then design proposals and 3d renders that we further implement and maintain. Additionally, we offer training sessions and manuals.
3 – Mobile installations – Eedama designs and delivers various installations that can be designed all together or separately. These installations tackle an item of the interaction between humans and their environment (both natural and urban). Include:Green Walls / Roofs – Green Houses – Hydroponics systems- Vertical Gardening Towers- Aquaponics systems – Upcycled & reclaimed furniture- Compost systems- Organic gardens.

Eedama has established an expertise on social and responsible entrepreneurship in all its aspects, and has been working in particular in the Lebanese context that is made of multiple crises. On one hand, Eedama developed a complete training for startups, from ideation to organization of the company and pitching for it, including the work on the self and the individual. The complete training can last between 15 and 30 days. Each module has a duration of several days, and can still be delivered individually. On the other hand, Eedama created a number of sessions related to handling crises in the smoothest and most adapted way. A crisis being by definition an unknown change, we do not give any solutions, we give tools to a number of players to assess and evolve. Our programs are organized around three pillars: The self (the individual), the organization, the business (or funding) model. Eedama delivers a number of modules related to managing a small and responsible business, including sustainability (financial, human, environmental) and impact assessment (social, environmental).

Eedama presents Educational workshops related to sustainability for kids and adults. These workshops include field trips, interactive activities which are related to technology, science, role playing, and sustainability. Eedama focuses as well on Eco-tourism in the UAE and Lebanon. In addition, Eedama offers different training for teachers.

Activities – eco tours” – Travel, explore and discover green initiatives around the world (or around the corner) with Eedama!
Eedama offers a range of eco-touristic tours around the world. Whether you are a conscious traveler looking for exciting experiences, a student or a researcher seeking scientific knowledge and expertise, a company looking for team building activities, or just someone willing to know more about sustainable initiatives, we got you covered!

Team Building
Eedama organizes engaging team building field trips for you to bond with nature through experiential activities, tours, camping trips and outdoor activities to various exciting destinations. These trips will allow you to learn more about sustainability, experience real life examples, and have great fun while leaving an impact and contributing to a greener future!.

RESET is an EU project funded through the ENI CBC MED Programme that aims to support the creation of green and sustainable businesses in the Mediterranean.The goal is to catalyze economic, environmental and social impact stemming from green and circular businesses through capacity building and development of the local, national and regional support ecosystems.

Cities on both sides of the Mediterranean face important environmental challenges and increasing costs to collect and treat waste, including expensive investments in landfills or incinerators. The MED-InA project proposes to develop and roll out a “Circular Economy” public policy adapted to Mediterranean cities as an exemplary and participatory approach for waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.

The aim of WISE was to pilot a circular economy approach in Lebanese wineries and demonstrate the effectiveness of composting in the process of wine making. The team piloted a composting pile experiment on Chateau Kefraya premises, our main beneficiary, as part of the project.