On Monday, April 10, 2023, the minister of higher education and scientific research paid a visit to a group of digital platforms and spaces dedicated to startups at the higher school of food science and agri-food industry. After that the minister visited an exhibition portrayed innovative projects developed by the school students, and headed then to the sub-constitutions of researches in food sciences. During the visit, Mr. Baddari called the students to work on transforming their projects into tangible reality through the mechanism of projects support which is under micro-enterprises and startups.

The ministerial delegation then headed to the higher national school for agricultural sciences to inspect various departments of the school. The minister later inaugurated a space dedicated to startups. On the same occasion, Mr. Baddari laid the foundation stone for a project dedicated to business incubators, as he then visited the digital library which is the unique for its kind nationally, for having digital imaging of its documents via 3D printing technology. In the same context, minister Baddari urged the school officials and students to make more efforts to preserve botanic wealth.

In a press statement, Mr.Baddari affirmed that the Algerian university is a space for developing innovative ideas that can be implemented in practice, and therefore create wealth and achieve food security. On the same occasion, he stated that innovative ideas would benefit their owners and the national economy, only if they were transformed into productive reviving projects to the national industry and provide foreign currency.

The minister added that adapting entrepreneurship spirit needs some mechanisms that enable innovative graduates to create wealth and give an added value to the national economy, especially in the sector of food security and self-sufficiency in grains production. And this is what the ministry of knowledge economy is providing to accompany innovative students whether in exploiting their research results or financing their institutions.

In the same context, Mr. Baddari said that next July will be the time for portraying digital platforms related to some research activities on different species of plants, at the aim of planting them in the areas affected by wildfires in recent years.