What’s Eumedis?

It's the largest program ever undertaken by the European Commission in the development of the global information society with the following objectives:

1. Funding the creation of a network of Mediterranean information society focal points, which will develop a harmonized governmental strategy for the development of the Euro-Mediterranean information society.
2. Funding an Internet based interconnection between the European research networks and the Mediterranean research network, creating a high bandwidth ring all around the Mediterranean region.
3. Funding regional pilot information society projects in five sectors of intervention:

• Education ;
  
• Electronic Commerce ;
  
• Industry, Business and Innovation ;
  
• Health care Network ;
  
• Tourism and Cultural heritage.