Pr Souad Rouis works as a full professor in the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax. She started working in this centre as engineer since 1991, obtained her PhD in 2001 and her habilitation in 2009. She is currently the head of the laboratory of Biopesticides and is specialized in toxin-receptor interaction. Pr Souad Rouis is the cofounder of the startup BiotechRDP, specialized in the development and commercialization of tools applied in human and animal diagnosis. She performed entrepreneurship training in USA and works now as Expert/mentor for innovative projects and post creation. Since 2003 she participated in the elaboration and realization of different European projects in the frame of the FP7 and H2020. During 2014/2015, she got the opportunity to improve her expertise in project innovation and management thanks to trainings and workshops provided by different European projects. She is coach for accelerating SMEs development. She is also the national coordinator of two European projects