Medressa II was an accompanying measure in the Information Society Technologies Programme in the Framework Programme 5.
It was meant to accompany:

• The ongoing EC activities on dissemination of RTD results
• The International Co-operation within the IST Programme
• The Euro-Mediterranean Information Society Steering Committee
• The upcoming EUMEDIS Programme

The main tangible results of the Medressa II project were:

• 26 Partnership Event in 7 South Mediterranean Countries
• A web-site containing all presentations given at the events, all contact data of the companies and institutions involved and a collection of reports about the target countries.
• The IT-Network and Brokerage Facility on the web where companies can register with their products or services.

The aim of MEDRESSA was to bring companies  and organisation from Europe and the South Mediterranean Countries (SMC)  closer together through a sustainable and mutually beneficial process of technology transfer. During the last decade European R&D has developed a huge amount of research results in the area of Information Technology and MEDRESSA aimed at disseminating these results to the SMCs and foster the uptake by establishing the necessary links and relationships between the developers and the users.

In particular, MEDRESSA

• Analysed the relevant industrial sectors in selected SMCs together with their market and company structures
• Identified companies and organisations in these sectors that have an expressed need for IT solutions
• Identified and analyse the relevant existing results taking into account all the analysis work that has been already performed (PROSOMA, etc.)
• Established direct relations between the European result owners and the SMC users through workshops in the SMCs