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Mission and Tools |
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Registered in June 2006, ANIMA Investment Network association held its first general assembly in November 2006 to establish its board and claim its vocation of becoming a multi-country platform for the economic development of the Mediterranean. |
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ANIMA Investment Network
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What is ANIMA Investment Network? |
ANIMA Investment Network is a multi-country platform for the economic development of the Mediterranean. The network gathers around forty investment promotion agencies (IPA), international networks and territorial development players across the Mediterranean. ANIMA Investment Network is opened to any IPA, community, enterprise, organisation interested in the economic development of the Mediterranean.
Missions of the network
• Advocate a stable, dynamic, transparent and fair economic environment for investment towards governments
• Develop co-operation between the economic development players around the Mediterranean
• Continue and amplify the actions handled by the ANIMA project between 2002 and 2007
• Launch any action contributing to reinforce the attractiveness of the Euro-Mediterranean area
Main activities
• ANIMA Investment Network (AIN) manages and updates this web site
• AIN performs economic intelligence and investment (FDI) follow-up to the benefit of the Mediterranean countries and their development agencies
• AIN manages and updates several observatories on FDI projects (MIPO), franchises, micro-projects and investment funds
• AIN carries out studies, and in particular an annual FDI survey
• AIN is consortium member of Medibtikar (Euromed project on industrial partnerships and innovation)
• AIN is also coordinator of the Economic Week of the Mediterranean, yearly recurring event organised by various communities (Marseille, week 47, each November )
• AIN represents the investment community in various events (conferences, shows, exhibitions etc.)
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Activities and tools |
Since 2002 ANIMA, in the framework of a European Commission project, has accompanied the Mediterranean IPAs in setting up tools and methods to increase their country attractiveness for foreign investment. The achievements, in a context facilitated by the petrodollars, are remarkable: 6-fold increase in investment flow (FDI) into the region, with nearly US$60 billion in 2006, up from 10 billion in the early 2000s (Source: UNCTAD). At the same time, ANIMA became a significant actor serving the economic development of the Mediterranean area :
• The project set up an "academy" on the attraction of investment (more than 1,500 professionals trained on attractiveness best practices, 55 capacity building seminars, 11 internships and 5 one-year secondments;
• A dynamic strategy for the promotion of the Mediterranean site was developed with the participation in 22 Euromed events, 4 road-shows and trade shows and 57 single presentations or presentations in FDI or trade events; the launch of 11 international conferences (3 Mediterranean Business Summit/ The Economist, Palermo Euromed Forum, 5 ANIMA open conferences, 2 Medinnov fora), the distribution of newsletters and the creation of a web site (www.animaweb.org) attracting over a million visitors per year;
• A investment intelligence center was developed, monitoring the FDI environment in the region on a daily basis: 2,100 investment projects detected since 2003 by the MIPO observatory, 24 sectoral and business environment studies -bilingual and downloadable on this site-, one investment fund observatory…);
• Catalyst for investments, ANIMA also launched pilot initiatives: on the return of diaspora investors (Home Sweet Home, Génération Méditerranée), preparation of a Euro-Mediterranean charter for investment, development and promotion of franchise, creation of a Euro-Mediterranean community of technological poles (MedIntelligence / Medinnov/ Medibtikar).
All these assets have been taken over by ANIMA Investment Network, which ensures their maintenance and development.
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Services offered to the network members |
These services are offered to members of the ANIMA Business Network. For the professionals, international organisations or companies working in the Mediterranean, there are more extensive co-operation offers (ANIMA club, partnership, sponsoring etc). Get information from ANIMA : tina.hom@anima.coop
Integration to the « ANIMA community »
• Participation in the General Assembly with voting right
• Newsletters and ANIMA annual report
• Extranet access
• Information on all network activities (calendar)
• Possibility to propose actions, initiatives, events
Investment intelligence (via ANIMA extranet)
• ANIMA observatories: data on FDIs, disclosed prospects, micro-projects (rep. offices, franchises, etc.)
• Data on business opportunities, privatisations, investment funds, possibility of ads etc.
• RSS flows
ANIMA think tank
• Full access to ANIMA studies 2003-2007
• Summary of studies 2008-2010
• Access to documentation and data base via extranet
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