July 2, 2015 – The relationship between Confindustria’s Young Entrepreneurs o and the State of Israel is stronger than ever, as the latter is a country of great interest for new entrepreneurship, especially Italian, which can provide its strong industrial capacity and creativity to the local counterparts, in exchange for technologies of the highest level. In fact, Israel hosts the largest concentration of hi-tech sector, with a great rate of innovative start-ups in the digital world. And so a five-day mission, from June 26 to July 1, divided into three stages (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa), brought 25 young entrepreneurs (from all over Italy and representative of a significant variety of sectors), as well as the President of the Association Marco Gay and the Vice President for innovation and internationalization Giacomo Gellini. “Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in Italy, our Embassy and the Consulate in Jerusalem – reads a note from Confindustria’s Young Entrepreneurs – we benefited from a full program of visits to the main centers of excellence in science, engineering and technology: the Weitzman Institute of Science, the Technion Institute of Technology, company visits to Telit (High Tech Industry) Strauss (Innovation Center in the food) and Caesar Stone (quartz processing).” The young entrepreneurs also met with Israeli colleagues of the local industry association, the Manufacturers Association of Israel, to plan future collaborations on innovative networking projects. A follow-up mission has already been scheduled for the Young Israeli Entrepreneurs that will see the signing of a Memoradum of Understanding and a visit to Expo in September. At the end of the mission, Gay and Gellini attended a meeting with the Italian Jewish community of Jerusalem with Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Education Minister Stefania Giannini. (Red)
