EIFL began working in Tunisia in 2010 through a three-year project funded by the European Commission’s Tempus Programme: Optimizing access to scientific and technical information at Maghreb universities (IsteMag). In 2012 EIFL  trained librarians on consortium management, negotiating with publishers and licensing of e-resources. In addition, EIFL co-organized a regional workshop for project partners from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco on open access and institutional repositories. These workshops were attended by vice-rectors/presidents, heads of research administration departments, managers of national research information centres, researchers, librarians and ICT staff.

In 2025, EIFL awarded a 12-month grant to the Gabès Higher Institute of Management / Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Gabès to enhance the quality and sustainability of its no-fee open access journal, Journal of Academic Finance.

The grant was among 30 awarded through a three-year project to strengthen no-fee open access publishing in Africa.