Ongoing closure of the MED DESIRE strategic project, a Mediterranean development project for programs to support initiatives to promote solar energy and renewable energies, partly financed by the European Union.

This project has financed actions of:

• Capacity building for more than 100 experts and national solar sector actors including 23 experts, representatives of SMEs and governmental organizations involved in vocational training and renewable energy (ATFP, CENAFFIF , Ecopark de borj Cédria, STEG), trained as multipliers on medium-sized solar photovoltaic techniques.
• Establishment of two tools to stimulate the market of solar energy technologies including solar thermal ordering and the financing mechanism to promote medium-sized photovoltaic solar technologies.
• Awareness and communication about solar energy technologies (seminars, communication brochures, promotional gadgets, technical publications, etc.).