The project aims to reinforce the olive oil sector through capacity building for the production of high quality olive oil with health protective properties.

The project will focus on the exchange of good practices in olive oil producing countries and aspires to create a pool of adequately trained stakeholders of the olive oil sector, namely:

producers, olive millers, bottling companies etc.who will be able to add value to their final product.

The project builds on existing know how developed within ARISTOIL project co-­financed through Interreg Med programme regarding the Reinforcement of the Mediterranean olive oil sector competitiveness through development and application of innovative production and quality control methodologies related to olive oil health protecting properties. ARISTOIL has developed a database with approximately 2500 producers from Mediterranean who have already benefited from the project and participated to trainings.