IP-MED is conceived as an integrated action to join the efforts of policy-makers and universities in the ENPI South region to tackle the abovementioned challenges. The introduction of a Master Programme in IP Law and practice in line with the Bologna requirements will help improve the competitiveness of professionals in the region and at the global level, contributing to better employment opportunities and international cooperation perspectives. In addition, and complementary to the IP Law studies, two main outcomes are envisaged: an IP Law Web Portal, which will be set up at the ENPI South partner universities to serve as a point of reference in the matter for their students and teachers but also for other universities in the region; and a Regional Network of IP Law Practitioners, which will be launched at the end of the project, as a professional platform and mechanism towards the sustainability of the project results.
Palestine Investment Promotion Agency in developing an IP protection law to clarify and amalgamate legislative procedures, and the MNE and its IP e-Gate, launched in 2012), there is still a pressing need for action to combat high rate of unemployment (close to 23 % in the West Bank and 40% in the Gaza Strip in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics), which is not favoured by a national entrepreneurial tissue of small scale industries.
To help countries improve the educational outcomes and the problem of skills mismatches and youth unemployment, structured regional cooperation in the field of higher education and research should be favoured. Mutual recognition of qualifications and education systems, learning of foreign languages, and mobility of students, economic developers, and researchers are some actions which need to be encouraged.
