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Rome, 20-21 October 2016
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About the UNIMED celebrations of 25 years of activities:
UNIMED, a network of 92 universities from 22 countries established in 1991, aims at promoting academic cooperation between
the EU and Southern-Mediterranean countries.
This year UNIMED is celebrating 25th anniversary with UNIMED
Cup and the General Assembly.
UNIMED Cup, organised by UNIMED in collaboration with University Foro Italico Roma 4, Pegaso Telematic University and Universitas
Mercatorum, is an annual event that combines the values of both
sport and culture in order to promote the dialogue among the Universities coming from the two shores of the Mediterranean.
This initiative at its II edition is attended by six female football
teams that play on 18th and 19th of October at the Palatorrino
Building.
On October 18th at Universitas Mercatorum University, sport professionals and personalities from the word of the Institutions attend a Round Table named “Sport and Citizenship: the role of the
women in the Mediterranean”. On this occasion, the sport plays
a pivotal role as a bridge between people and cultures from the
both shores of the Mediterranean, a metaphor for peace and gender equality.
The UNIMED General Assembly, organised by UNIMED in collaboration with Sapienza University and under the patronage of the
European Parliament, the European Commission (DG Education,
Culture, Youth and Sport) and of the Union for the Mediterranean, represents an important yearly event of our association’s life,
where the University Presidents, their Delegates in International
relations, the Officers from International Relations Departments,
students and representatives of the cultural world, organizations
and institutions are invited to attend.
The Assembly is a two-days event. On the first day, both representatives of International Organisations and of politicial and cultural institutions are invited to deliver a speech. The second day
is dedicated to the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation through the
organisation of two workshops on different topics such as Open
Education, Employability and Bologna Process.
The initiative is sponsored by Fondazione di Sardegna, Silvian Heach, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella and Pegaso Telematic University.
UNIMED CUP
18-19 October 2016
in collaboration with
UNIMED GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TUESDAY,
18th OCTOBER 2016
9:30-1:00 PM
Women Football Match
Venue: Palatorrino, Via Fiume Giallo nr.47, Rome
5:30-7:30 PM
Round Table “Women and Sport: a cultural heritage in
the Mediterranean countries”
Venue: Universitas Mercatorum, Building Costaguti, Piazza Mattei, Rome
Welcome Greetings:
Giovanni Cannata
President Universitas Mercatorum University
Franco Rizzi
UNIMED Secretary General
Speakers:
Josefa Idem
Member of the VII Permanent Committee (Education, Cultural Heritage, Research, Arts and Sport) - Senate of the
Italian Republic
Laura Capranica
European Student as Athlete (EAS) President
Laila Soufyane
Corporal Major and Athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo Esercito
(the sport section of the Italian Army)
Emanuele Isidori
Delegate for International Relations, Foro Italico University
Raffaele Vanoli
Delegate for Sport Affairs at Pegaso Telematic University
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Roberto De Benedittis
President of the Women Italian Club
Chaired by Antonio Tessitore, UNIMED Delegate for Subnetwork Sport
7:30 PM
Cocktail kindly offered by Universitas Mercatorum
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WEDNESDAY,
19th OCTOBER 2016
9:30-1:00 PM
Women Football Match - Sports final
Venue: Palatorrino, Via Fiume Giallo nr.47, Rome
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General Assembly
20-21 October 2016
Venue
Rectorate of Sapienza University
of Rome – Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 Rome
in collaboration with
Held under the patronage of
Mr. Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
With the support of the
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FIRST DAY
THURSDAY ,
20th OCTOBER 2016
3:00-4:00 PM
Welcome Coffee and Registration of Participants
4:00-4:45 PM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Musical interlude
Message of the President of the Italian Republic
Sergio Mattarella
Wail Benjelloun
UNIMED President
Eugenio Gaudio
Rector of Sapienza University of Rome
Bruno Botta
Vice Rector for International Relations of Sapienza University of Rome
Franco Rizzi
UNIMED Secretary General
4:45-5:00 PM
UNIMED Cup Awards Ceremony
5:00-6:45 PM
Message of UNESCO Director General
Irina Bokova
Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari
Minister of the State of Qatar
Paolo Matthiae
Full Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East, Sapienza University of Rome
Isabella Camera D’Afflitto
Full Professor of Arabic Modern Literature, Sapienza University of Rome
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Antonello Cabras
President of Fondazione di Sardegna
Silvia Costa
President of the Committee on Culture and Education of
the European Parliament
6:45-7:45 PM
Showcases of UNIMED projects
Marcello Scalisi, UNIMED Director and UNIMED Staff
8:00 PM
Gala dinner
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UNIMED GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SECOND DAY
FRIDAY,
21st OCTOBER 2016
09:00-10:30 AM
UNIMED General Assembly
(participation is limited to UNIMED members)
10:30-11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:00-12:30 AM
UNIMED General Assembly
(participation is limited to UNIMED members)
12:30-1:30 PM
Plenary Session : Cooperation with International Organizations
Emmanuelle Gardan
Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Alessandro Damiani
President of the Agenzia per la promozione della Ricerca
Europea (APRE)
Davide Strangis
Executive Secretary of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) Intermediterranean Commission
1.30-2.30 PM
Light lunch
2:30- 3:30 PM
Enterprises and Employability : A challenge for the University Cooperation
Anna Maria Gaetana Marano Nunziata
Silvian Heach company CEO
Diodora Costantini
IES Lab Foundation President
Enrico Pulieri
YOUTHMED Vice President
The working languages will be English, French and Italian and the interpreting service is
kindly provided by University of International Studies of Rome - UNINT
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3:30-5:30 PM
Parallel Workshops (WS)
WS1: Bologna Process: State of the Art in the Mediterranean region
Chaired by Wail Benjelloun
Patricia Pol
Vice chair of the Bologna Follow Up Group, and Co-chair of
the advisory Group “EHEA international cooperation”
Azzedine El Midaoui
President of Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, and President
of the Conference of University Presidents - CPUM, Morocco
Faysal Mansouri
Rector of University of Sousse, Tunisia
WS2*: Open Educational Resources in the Arab Mediterranean countries: towards a regional strategy
Chaired by Cristina Stefanelli
Cristina Stefanelli
UNIMED
António Teixeira
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Elsayed Tag Eldyn
Open Education Center, Cairo University, Egypt
Fabio Nascimbeni
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain
5:30-6:00 PM
Closing remarks
*The working language will be English only for the Workshop about Open Education. English,
French and Italian will be the languages for the workshop “Bologna Process”. The interpreting
service is kindly provided by University of International Studies of Rome - UNINT.
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RATIONALE WORKSHOP 1
RATIONALE
WORKSHOP 1
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Bologna Process: State of the Art
in the Mediterranean region
Thanks to the Bologna Process, the European Higher Education
Area (EHEA) has come to a reality. Since 1998, it has been built
upon the willingness to share the same democratic and academic
values and to implement a common architecture of higher education systems, in particular around the three-cycle structure, quality assurance systems, recognition of degrees, mobility schemes.
Since 2009, facing the necessity for Higher Education to become
more global, a Bologna Policy Forum is organized during the Ministerial Conferences to share mutual policy learning and understanding with non-EHEA countries.
In order to prepare the next EHEA Ministerial Conference that
will be hold in Paris in 2018, the EHEA work program 2015-2018
gives a priority to the development of an active EHEA international cooperation with other regions of the world. The general goal is to organize a permanent policy dialogue with all the
stakeholders and propose to the ministers concrete actions for
beyond 2020 to address global challenges higher education is
faced with.
Due to the mutual interests between the Mediterranean area and
Europe and the long tradition of cooperation between higher
education institutions, to learn more about the state of the art
of the Bologna process in the Mediterranean region is a very important issue. What has been the impact of the Bologna Process
in the different countries?
What are the opportunities and the risks of such regional areas
of higher education? What could be a cooperative roadmap to
improve the cooperation between both regions? The workshop
will aim at sharing diverse experiences to begin to answer those
questions.
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Open Educational Resources in
the Arab Mediterranean countries:
towards a regional strategy
The idea of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Practices
have gained ground over the last decade, attracting the interest
and support of many universities along with philanthropic organisations, governmental agencies and public bodies – including
UNESCO, the European Commission and the US Department of
Education. UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as
teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital
or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions
(UNESCO 2012).
This 2-hours workshop aims to:
• share and discuss strategies of OER adoption in higher education,
drawing on examples from different institutional contexts;
• present and discuss the OpenMed OER Regional Agenda for the
South-Mediterranean region.
The workshop is articulated around presentations of the latest development of the OpenMed project, and of other OE-related initiatives, such as the MOOQ and the MOOC-maker projects. It will
also leave room for discussion and exchange of ideas among participants about Open Education strategies in higher education in
Europe and South-Mediterranean countries.
The workshop constitutes an opportunity to support the development of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, while providing productive feedback in the expansion and consolidation of the Open
Education movement.
RATIONALE WORKSHOP 2
RATIONALE
WORKSHOP 2
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RATIONALE WORKSHOP 2
The participation in the workshop can be particularly useful for
those interested in:
• understanding the scope and impact of Open Education and OER
in Higher Education
• learning about the current stage and achievements of the OpenMed international network
• engage in the forthcoming OpenMed activities, for the definition
of a OER Regional Strategy for the South-Mediterranean and local/
institutional action plans.
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The OpenMed OER Regional Agenda for the South-Mediterranean
region
In the workshop, we will introduce the OpenMed OER Regional
Agenda for the South-Mediterranean region, and explore its potential as a methodology and a tool for productive dialogue at a
macro level, between countries and regions, and at a micro level,
as guidance for the elaboration of institutional roadmaps.
The OER Regional Agenda gathers the long-term challenges and
priorities which are necessary for opening-up Higher Education
in the South Mediterranean countries, and outlines strategic
actions aimed at maximising the benefits of Open Education for
the development of university courses, to increase the access,
the quality, and the equity of Higher Education in the MENA region.
The OER Agenda highlights the importance of fostering the role of
universities as knowledge providers not only for their campus-based students but also beyond the walls of the institutions, especially towards reaching disadvantaged groups including migrants
and refugees, with the purpose of supporting a more balanced and
equitable socio-economic development.
With the OER Agenda we will:
• Suggest mechanisms for enhancing students access to learning
• Suggest mechanisms to promote improvement of quality of teaching and learning practices
• Support participant universities to widen participation in Open
Education
• Create awareness on the benefits of OER use, reuse and remix for
university course development
• Support the transformation of siloed-institutions into connected
learning communities
The OER Agenda is aimed at managers, decision-makers, educators
and other members of staff (e.g. university librarians, technical IT
staff) from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the South-Medi-
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terranean countries and for all organisations engaged in teaching
and learning.
This workshop is organised as part of OpenMed (www.openmedproject.eu/), an Erasmus+ project aimed at raising awareness
and facilitating the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER)
and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in the South-Mediterranean
countries, with a particular focus on Higher Education in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Palestine.
RATIONALE WORKSHOP 2
The presentations will be supported with visuals, and state of the
art information. The discussion will be supported with documentation, and stimulated through a series of focused questions.
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The 25 years of UNIMED
UNIMED is an association that has built bridges and dialogues
among the countries of the two shores of the Mediterranean, over
the last 25 years. UNIMED had to overcome many difficulties, as
everyone can imagine, but always with the fighting spirit of those
who know they are working for a good cause. In the Mediterranean
there were and still there are violent fractures, but also significant
convergences. We have witnessed the slow and inexorable degradation of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the wars that have sown death, we have looked at this sea without being able to rejoice at
its view due to a lump in the throat that took us at the thought
of the deaths of thousands of men, women and children looking
for a new life in Europe, yes Europe, generous with good intentions, but sparing with hospitality. But we also have witnessed the
mobilization of generations of ordinary people, of the civil society
that stubbornly continued to work to bridge the two sides of Mediterranean, against those who want to divide them at any costs.
Men and women of good will, who work for peace and mutual understanding. Mediterranean is not only the hostage of terrorism
and of a pseudo-Caliphate. UNIMED has always been inspired by
this logic, pushing the universities, through an intensive project
work to tackle these issues in direct contact with the people’s needs. A large network, tomorrow perhaps wider, that I love to define
“a university without walls” where knowledge and research are
shared to the benefit of men and women. In this great university,
thanks to the medias, we should imagine the Education of young
people. They should be able to navigate and move like fish from
Tunis to Beirut, from Bari to Barcelona, young students who move
from Paris to Amman from Tampere to Marrakech. So, the European Union should provide greater financial support to the Erasmus
program, and in general to mobility programs.
Nowadays, Politics has attested the strategic role of culture in fighting against racism, terrorism, xenophobia, but at the same time
governments cut funds to universities. I think today we should
answer to this important question: where is the Mediterranean
going? We should develop a big project linking all professionals
gathered to talk about that: from professionals to businessmen,
from artists to politicians, from students to women. As I told before, it is a need in order to give visibility to those who work for this
Sea, aware that Mediterranean is our destiny.
Excerpt from the UNIMED book’s contribution of prof. Franco Rizzi, UNIMED Secretary General, “UNIMED, Venticinque anni di impegno per il Mediterraneo”.
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UNIMED ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES
Algeria
1. University “Badji Mokhtar” - Annaba
2. University Kasdi Merbah Ouargla
3. University of Algiers 1
4. University of Béjaia
5. University “des Frères Mentouri”
Constantine 1
6. University of Mostaganem
7. University of Sciences and
Technology “Mohamed Boudiaf” –
USTO-Oran
8. University of Sétif 2
Cyprus
9. Cyprus University of Technology
10. University of Cyprus
Egypt
11. Arab Academy for Science and
Technology and Maritime Transport of
Alexandria
12. Damanhour University
13. Misr University for Science and
Technology - MUST
14. University of Alexandria
15. University of Cairo
Finland
16. University of Tampere
France
17. Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne
18. Université de Rouen
Georgia
19. Georgian Technical University
Greece
20. University of Athens
21. University of Piraeus
Jordan
22. Amman Arab University
23. Hashemite University – Zarqa
24. Princess Sumaya University of
Technology – PSUT
25. University “Al- Bayt” – Amman
26. University of Jordan – Amman
27. University of Petra
Italy
28. “Foro Italico” University of Rome
29. International University of
Language and Media – IULM - Milan
30. International University of Rome UNINT
31. Link Campus University
32. Pegaso Telematic University
33. Politecnico di Torino
34. University for Foreigners of Perugia
35. University “La Sapienza” – Rome
36. University “Mercatorum” – Rome
37. University of Bari
38. University of Bologna
39. University of Cagliari
40. University of Calabria
41. University of Catania
42. Florence University of Arts
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43. University of Messina
44. University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia
45. University of Palermo
46. University of Pavia
47. University of Perugia
48. University of Salento – Lecce
49. University of Sassari
50. University of Siena
51. University of Teramo
52. University of Urbino
53. University Cà Foscari of Venice
67. Islamic University of Gaza
68. Palestine Ahliya University College
69. University “Al-Aqsa” – Gaza
70. University “Al-Azhar” – Gaza
71. University of Bethlehem
72. University of Birzeit
73. University College of Applied
Sciences – Gaza
74. Al Quds Open University
Lebanon
54. Holy Spirit University of Kaslik –USEK
55. Lebanese University
Qatar
76. Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Libya
56. University of Sirte
Montenegro
57. Mediterranean University
Podgorica
Morocco
58. Agronomy and Veterinary Science
Institute “Hassan II” – Rabat
59. Euro-Mediterranean University of Fès
60. International University of Rabat
61. University “Cady Ayyad” –
Marrakech
62. University “Ibnou Zohr” – Agadir
63. University Ibn Tofail of Kenitra
64. University “Mohammed V” – Rabat
Oman
65. Middle East College
Palestine
66. An-Najah National University Nablus
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Portugal
75. University of Evora
Spain
77. University of Barcelona
78. University of Girona
79. University of Granada
Syria
80. Private University al Hawash
81. University “Al- Baath” – Homs
82. University of Aleppo
83. University of Damascus
84. University “Tishreen” - Lattakia
Tunisia
85. University of Carthage – Tunis
86. University Tunis “El Manar”
87. University of Sfax
88. University of Sousse
89. University of Tunis
Turkey
90. Istanbul Aydin University
91. University “Boğaziçi” – Istanbul
United Arab Emirates
92. Gulf Medical University, Ajman
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Director
Marcello Scalisi
Project Managers
Raniero Chelli
Cristina Stefanelli
Projects and Networking
Federica De Giorgi
Silvia Marchionne
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Emilia Stoduto
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Studies & Research
Claudia De Martino
Marco Di Donato
Administration
Cinzia Generali
Webmaster
Marco Angelini
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