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Towards monitoring the quality of Mediterranean inshore waters

MYTILOS - MYTIMED: 2 Euro-Mediterranean projects based on the same principle: using mussels as bioaccumulators to monitor chemical contamination in the Mediterranean. Whereas MYTILOS (2004-2007) would focus on Western Mediterranean, MYTIMED (2006-2008) would concentrate on Eastern...
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 Autoprotection against fire forest in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Andalucia

Within the framework of OCR Incendi (cooperation programme between administrative districts to manage forest fire risks), the Observatoire de la Forêt Méditerranéenne (Observatory of the Mediterranean Forest) and Andalucia community's Environment Consejeria have produced a...
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Friday, 06 June 2008 Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Nilesat

Thales Alenia Space (located in Cannes) has signed a contract with Egyptian firm Nilesat to provide the Nilesat-201 telecommunication satellite, as well as associated services and ground stations. Aims for February 2010: providing Direct-to-home services for Northern Africa, the Middle East and...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 Cooperation agreement between Adeci and Algiers WTC

During the Med Business Days, the Adeci has signed a cooperation agreement with Algiers World Trade Center, so as to bring businesses from both shores nearer. This agreement offers an official framework to develop business relationships between Algerian and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
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Monday, 07 July 2008 French Spanish research on progeria

Spanish researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of Oviedo University and French researchers from the Inserm and from the AP-HM (Public hospitals in Marseilles) have recently tested on mice a new treatment against progeria (genetic disorder of premature ageing). Thanks to the combination of...
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Water shipments to Catalonia

Monday, 25 August 2008 Framework convention between IFREMER and Plan Bleu

The IFREMER (French national institute of marine research) and the Plan Bleu (Regional activity centre in favour of environment and development of the Mediterranean) have signed a 4-year framework convention on the main topics relating to marine sciences and sustainable development in the...
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 Thales Alenia Space working with Israel Aerospace Industries

Having already worked together on Amos-1, Amos-2 and Amos-3 satellites, Cannes-based company Thales Alenia Space and Israel Aersopace Industries will get together again for Amos-4 project. Thales Alenia Space will provide the communication subsystems of this satellite which will be made by...
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Friday, 23 May 2008 Euro-Mediterranean research pole on sustainable development

4 French universities (Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Toulon, Corte and Pierre et Marie Curie) and 2 Italian ones (Turin and Genoa) have been working on the setting up of a training and research pole in the area of sustainable development. It will cover a wide range of scientific fields (risk prevention,...
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 M1 Group acquiring the Nice-based brand Façonnable

Lebanese M1 Group has made a 210-million-dollar-deal (153 million of euros) this Summer to acquire Nice-based brand "Façonnable", currently owned by the American firm Nordstrom which sells all the activities (design, production, licensing and distribution). M1 Group intends to...
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Monday, 18 August 2008 National Moroccan national holiday celebrated in Marseilles

For Moroccan national holiday, M. Abdelmalek Chibeb, consul general of Morocco in Marseilles, invited lots of Marseille key figures at the Parc Chanot. It was the occasion to remember Marseille's twinning with Marrakech, as well as cooperation agreements with Casablanca, Meknes and Rabat, in...
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 French and Tunisian open source professionals getting together

The workshop "Competitiveness cluster and clustering around free software" organized on July 22nd 2008 at the Elgazala technopark has welcomed French and Tunisian experts, as well as Lamia Chafia Sghaier, Secretary of State at the Tunisian IT Ministry, responsible for IT, Internet and...
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