About UNIMED General Assembly
UNIMED, a network of 91 universities established in 1991, aims at promoting academic cooperation between the EU and Southern-Mediterranean countries. Its 2015 General Assembly is a 2-day interactive event bringing together UNIMED associated universities and everyone interested in fostering the Euro-Mediterranean dimension of university cooperation.
Following the recent events in the Mediterranean region, it is of crucial importance to enhance the role of Universities in strengthening the Mediterranean dialogue and cooperation to reach our shared objectives of stability and prosperity. UNIMED General Assembly is an opportunity to meet the challenge in practice and to renew our mutual support to achieve this.
Venue
Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia Aula Magna “Bruno Zevi”
Via Antonio Gramsci, 53 Rome, Italy
Registration Welcome
Domenico Laforgia
UNIMED President
Eugenio Gaudio
Rector of Sapienza University of Rome
Antonio Panzeri
President of Delegation for public relations and Maghreb countries, European Parliament
25 years of activity of UNIMED
Franco Rizzi
UNIMED Secretary General
Speakers from EU, International and National institutions
Cristina Russo
Director for International Cooperation, DG Research & In-novation, European Commission
Michel Vauzelle
President of the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Presi-dent of the Inter-Mediterranean Commission of the Confe-rence of Peripheral and Maritime Regions of Europe
Michele Emiliano
President of Apulia Region
Ilan Chet
Deputy Secretary General of UfM,Union for the Mediterranean
Sergio Piazzi
Secretary General of Pam, Parliamentary Assembly of he Mediterranean
Manuel Lobo Antunes
Ambassador of Portugal in Italy
Antonello Cabras
President of Fondazione Banco di Sardegna
Sultan Abu-Orabi
Secretary General of AArU, Association of Arab Universities Signature of the MoU between the Region Provence-Al-pes CÔte d’Azur and UNIMED
Coffee Break 09:00 – 09:30 AM 08:30 AM 09:30 – 10:00 AM 10:00 – 11:30 AM 11:30 – 12:00 PM
02:00 – 03:00 PM 03:00 – 03:30 PM 03:30 – 05:00 PM
Speakers from UNIMED Associated Universities
Hmaid Ben Aziza
President of Tunis University
Ilham Berrada
Vice-President of Muhammad V University of Rabat
Francisco Matte Bon
Rector of Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma
Maher Natsheh
Rector of An-Najah University of Nablus
Alessandro Bianchi
Rector of Pegaso Telematic University
Faysal Mansouri
President of Sousse University
Mostapha Bousmina
President of Euro-Mediterranean University of Fès Seddik Abdel Salam Tawfik
Vice-President of Alexandria University
Merzak Gharnaout
Vice-Rector of Algiers 1 University Lunch
Showcase of UNIMED Current Projects Parallel working session (WS)
WS1 – Erasmus+ (International Credit Mobility, Capacity Building, Joint Master Degree)
Chaired by Marcello Scalisi, UNIMED Executive Director
Claire Herrmann, DG Education And Culture, European Commission, “Results and lessons from the first call and next opportunities for EU-South Med cooperation”
Nesreen Ghaddar, Faculty of Engineering and Architectu-re, American University of Beirut, “An Insight on Pro-Gre-en – Professional Online Diploma in GrePro-Gre-en Technologies”
Giuseppe Moniello, Rector’s Delegate for Students Mo-bility and Erasmus, Sassari University, “Students Inter-national mobility and the Mediterranean pathway for the Erasmus”
Katiuscia Cipri, Assistant Professor, Faculty of
05:00 – 05:30 PM 05:30 – 07:30 PM
ring, Sapienza University of Rome, “Master Program on Renewable Energies in the MENA Countries: Goals and re-sults in numbers”
WS2 – Research and Innovation: H2020 and cooperation with Mediterranean Partner countries
Chaired by Raniero Chelli, UNIMED EU Projects Coordinator (The working language of this session is the English language) Gaetano Ladisa, CIHEAM-Bari, “MEDSPRING: the Nexus Water, Energy, Food (W.E.F) to strengthen the Euro-Medi-terranean Cooperation on Research and Innovation”
Gregory Makrides, Director of Research and International Relations, University of Cyprus, President of EAEC, “Rese-arch and Innovations Indicators and their relation to inter-nationalization: mapping and profiling”
Alberto Soraci, Head of Technology Transfer Department Innova BIC, Messina, “The R2I experiences as starting point for Research and Innovation meta cluster development”
Mohamed Ettarid, Former Director of Institut Agronomi-que et Vétérinaire Hassan II, “The experience of IAV Has-san II in the EU programmes on research and innovation” Coffee Break
UNIMED General Assembly
(participation is limited to one delegate per member) Opening by UNIMED President, Domenico Laforgia Vote on the proposal of the new UNIMED Statute Election of members of statutory bodies: President, Vi-ce-President, Secretary General, members of the Board of Directors
Work Plan 2016 - 2018
Convocation of the next 2016 General Assembly Miscellaneous
09:30 – 11:00 AM
11:00 – 11:30 AM 11:30 – 01:00 PM
Results from the General Assembly and statutory bodies election
WS3 – Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, focus on: Doc-toral Education, Employability and Entrepreneurship, Cross-Border Cooperation
Chaired by Nicolas Patrici, University of Barcelona/AECHE
Lisette Schmidt, Center for Doctoral Studies, Research Services and Career Development, University of Vienna, ”Professional Management in Doctoral Education. Insights into an Evolving Occupational Field”
Kiran GopakumarRajalekshmi, Deputy Dean Middle East College, “Employability and significance of Knowledge Alliance”
Mustafa Aydin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Istanbul Aydin University and President of EURAS – Eurasian Uni-versity Union, “Studies on Internalitation and Discovering the new perfective in EUROASIA”
Mahfouz Hady, President of Holy Spirit University of Ka-slik (USEK), “Universities as a Professional Springboard: How Institutions Meet this Challenge – The Case of USEK”
Lassaad El Asmi, President of Carthage University, “For the Win-win Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the doc-toral education”
Bernardo Notarangelo, Head of Mediterranean Department, Apulia Region, “Apulia Region & Cross-border cooperation” Coffee Break
WS4 – Sustainable Tourism & Cultural Heritage Chaired by Lorenzo Nigro, Sapienza University of Rome
Antonio Magliulo, UNINT University of Rome and mem-ber of NECSTouR Academic Committee, “Culture and tou-rism: the experience of NECSTouR”
Ettore Janulardo, Referent of Archaeology Sector, DGSP-VI,
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Coope -ration, “Archaeological research and cultural heritage”
Fabio Pollice, Full Professor of Economic and Political Geography, University of Salento, Simone Bozzato, Se-cretary General, Italian Geographical Society, “Historic 09:00 – 09:30 AM
01:00 – 02:30 PM 02:30 – 03:30 PM
03:30 – 04:30 PM
Centers and Tourism Development: Sustainable Paths”
José Antonio Donaire Benito, Scientific Coordinator of
the Tourism Campus of the University of Girona, “The Re-search Agenda in Tourism and Water”
Irene Hazou, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Beth -lehem University, “ Sustainable tourism in Palestine”
Laura Baratin, Coordinator of INFOBC Tempus IV Project, University of Urbino, “Innovation in Training for Cultural heritage: a new Euro-Mediterranean curriculum for the preservation of cultural heritage”
Lunch
WS5 – The University in the digital era
Chaired by Pegaso Telematic University Representative
Alessandro Bianchi, Rector of Pegaso Telematic University, “Introduction to the theme: The University in the Digital Era”
Alessandra Schettino, Responsible for Internationaliza-tion, Pegaso Telematic University, “Diplomatic Passport - managing the contemporary interculturalism to skill the glocal dimension”
WS6 – New Members and UNIMED enlargement: which opportunities?
Chaired by Ramon Torrent, Coordinator of AECHE Secretariat
Abdallah Al Zoubi, Advisor AArU & Vice-President of Prin-cess Sumaya University for Technology
Mousa Mousa Mohammed, President of Sirte University (via Skype)
Ali Said Ali Al Uraimi, Deputy Managing Director, Middle East College
Closing Session
Marcello Scalisi, UNIMED Executive Director
Enrico Granara, Minister Plenipotentiary, Directorate
Ge-neral for Political Affairs and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Franco Rizzi, UNIMED Secretary General and the new elected UNIMED President
Simultaneous interpretation into Italian, English and French is provided by courtesy of
Albania
1. University of Tirana
Algeria
2. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Politiques (ENSSP) - Algiers
3. University “Abou Bekr Belkeid” – Tlemcen
4. University “Badji Mokhtar” – Annaba 5. University “Es- Senia” – Oran 6. University Kasdi Merbah Ouargla 7. University of Algiers 8. University of Béjaia 9. University of Blida 10. University of Constantine 11. University of Mostaganem 12. University of Sétif 2 13. University of Sciences and Technology “Mohamed Boudiaf” – USTO-Oran
14. University of Tizi Ouzou
Cyprus
15. Cyprus University of Technology 16. University of Cyprus
Egypt
17. Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport of Alexandria
18. Misr University for Science and Technology - MUST 19. University of Alexandria 20. University of Cairo 21. Damanhour University Finland 22. University of Tampere Jordan
23. Hashemite University – Zarqa 24. University “Al- Bayt” – Amman 25. University of Jordan - Amman
Greece
26. University of Athens
27. University of Panteion – Athens 28. University of Piraeus
Israel
29. University of Tel Aviv
Italy
30. “Foro Italico” University of Rome 31. International University of Rome - UNINT
32. Pegaso Telematic University 33. Politecnico di Torino
34. University “Federico II” – Naples 35. University for Foreigners of Perugia 36. University Institute of Modern Language – IULM - Milan
37. University “La Sapienza” – Rome 38. University “Mercatorum” – Rome 39. University of Bari
40. University of Bologna 41. University of Catania
UNIMED ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES
42. University of Cagliari 43. University of Calabria 44. University of Foggia 45. University of Messina
46. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 47. University of Palermo
48. University of Perugia 49. University of Salento – Lecce 50. University of Sannio - Benevento 51. University of Sassari
52. University of Siena 53. University of Teramo 54. University of Urbino
55. University Cà Foscari of Venice
Lebanon
56. Lebanese University
57. Holy Spirit University of Kaslik – USEK Libya 58. University of Sirte Montenegro 59. Mediterranean University Podgorica Morocco
60. Agronomy and Veterinary Science Institute “Hassan II” – Rabat
61. Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie – Rabat
62. Euro-Mediterranean University of Fès 63. International University of Rabat 64. University “Cady Ayyad” – Marrakech
65. University “Ibnou Zohr” – Agadir 66. University “Mohammed V” – Rabat
Palestine
67. An-Najah National University - Nablus
68. Islamic University of Gaza
69. Palestine Ahliya University College 70. University “Al-Aqsa” – Gaza 71. University “Al-Azhar” – Gaza 72. University of Bethlehem 73. University of Birzeit
74. University College of Applied Sciences – Gaza
Oman
75. Middle East College
Portugal 76. University of Evora Spain 77. University of Barcelona 78. University of Girona 79. University of Granada Syria
80. University “Al- Baath” – Homs 81. University of Aleppo
82. University of Damascus 83. University “Tishreen” - Lattakia
Tunisia
84. University Tunis “El Manar” 85. University of Sousse 86. University of Sfax 87. University of Tunis
88. University of Carthage – Tunis
Turkey
89. Istanbul Aydin University
90. University “Boğaziçi” – Istanbul United Arab Emirates
UNIMED Office Executive Director Marcello Scalisi Project Managers Raniero Chelli Cristina Stefanelli
Projects and Networking Silvia Marchionne
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