"The North Africa (also called Maghreb) region, especially Morocco and Tunisia, correspond to Emerging Nations with unprecedented growth in industrial sectors, such as energy, manufacturing, information technology and telecommunications. Their economies have made impressive gains in industrial infrastructure, and both governments are adopting active and competitive strategies, both to promote a local industrial tissue, and to attract major industrial players. The industry is facing a historical turning point when considered on a global scale. To improve the attractiveness for investment and to meet market requirements of competitivity, in terms of performance, quality, and sustainability, both Morocco and Tunisia need to support industrialization. Therefore, both countries have adopted sustained strategies to support industrial companies to modernize their hardware, software and ""humanware"" infrastructures through embracing the industry 4.0 paradigm and technologies.This project particularly focuses on Production, Maintenance and Quality engineering processes, which represent key industrial business processes that particularly need attention, investment and improvement. The overall objective of this project is to contribute to strengthening the skills and training expertise of both Tunisian and Moroccan universities in the three targeted topics for inciting and assisting the Partner Countries (PC) transition to industry 4.0 era. Indeed, regarding the current performance of the PC industry, it seems to be considerably inefficient compared to those of EU countries. For that, there is a real need of alternative tools to develop new industrial process which will help Tunisian and Moroccan transition to the new industry 4.0 era. Besides, this project will be a great opportunity to build interesting and constructive collaboration between EU and both Tunisian and Moroccan universities to share knowledge and mutual expertise."