Tunisia

Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique

Chairperson
Moncef Ben Salem (memes@mes.rnu.tn)

Telephone number: +(216) 71 786-300

Fax Number: +(216) 71 801 701

Physical address
Avenue Ouled Haffouz - 1030 - Tunis

Postal address
Avenue Ouled Haffouz - 1030 - Tunis

Country
Tunisia

Institution website address
http://www.mes.tn/welcome.htm

Organisation Info.

In what sector does the institution operate
Public Sector

On what basis does the institution operate
Non-for-profit

Type of Organisation
Professional Association

What is the institutional affilliation of your Organisation
Government

Level of operation

What is the level of operation
National

Finances

Does your organisation have a dedicated budget for research for health?
Public Sector

From what sources does the research budget come?
National government

Are members of your organisation compensated/remunerated for their work
Yes

Facilities

Does your institution have its own
Offices, Telephone, Fax line, Computer, Internet Connection, Photocopier, Laboratories, Other

Details of Members

Are members of your organisation compensated/remunerated for their work
Yes

Human resources development

Does your organisation have a dedicated budget for research for health? Yes

From what sources does the research budget come?: National government

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHESR) is responsible and supervise the Tunisian National programmes on Scientific Research. The MHESR is committed to ease the execution of research programmes and to promote innovation and technological development; these goals are pursued by supporting innovative firms, underlining the results of research, strengthening partnership between research structures and firms and giving birth to an ambitious programme for the setting-up of techno-parks and nurseries of firms. The MHESR is the national contact point for the INCO program within the Seventh Framework Programme. The organisation operates also as InP (Information Point) since the Spring of 2005 within the framework of the Euro-MEDANet project. This Minister has also been partner in several EU funded projects  such as EUROMEDANET, FOOD-N-CO, Promedaccess, IDEALIST and ERAMED.