1.- Joint Programming.-
The annual program of the
Interuniversity Platform EMUI_ EuroMed University is joint, being
agreed by its
Academic Council, at the proposal of each of the Universities that
comprise it,
or of the Platform itself.
The
following universities are part of the Academic Council: Hebrew
Jerusalem
(Israel), Cayro (Egypt), Mohammed V Rabat (Morocco), Foggia and Salento
(Italy); And Complutense Madrid (Spain).
2.-
Type of offers.- The offer is of three types: Presential,
Semi-Presential and
Virtual. In order to promote mobility and inter-university exchange,
regardless
of which institution makes the offer, a weighted distribution of
students is
established.
3.-
Progressive and regulated implementation.-
Implementation
Calendar
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4.-
Novelty of the project.- In the design, joint programming
and type of offers
lies the novelty and opportunity of the project, which makes it a
pilot, with a
coordination center in Salento and a complementary projection in the
other
institutions with projection In their respective geo-political spaces
of
influence or interest.
BACKGROUND | CONTEXTE_ EU
1.
The title of the project field, Higher Education and Research:
European Union and the Mediterranean (Historical, Cultural, Political,
Economic and Social Basis), shows the will of its
promoters and forces to present:
1.1 Basic cross-cutting programs; and
1.2 Specific programs that respect the proposed
transversality.
2.-
The historical, cultural, political, economic and social bases must be understood:
2.1 As a need to know the genesis and development
of these bases;
2.2 As an assumption to better understand the
footprints on which current reality stands; Y
2.3 As a strategy for the design of programs with
a real impact in the affected areas
3.-
Descriptors of justification.-
3.1
Emerging
models of identity.- The studies of opinion, market and
mobility in
the area of influence of the
Mediterranean shows
us a complex society, in the process of adaptation to the unstable
contemporary
political-economic map. This makes it difficult to choose a specific
model of
identity.
3.2
New
migratory flows.- The variants of flows (human, political,
economic and
cultural), which in the South-North direction, come from conflicting
preindustrial societies, prevent to precisely limit the objective
reasons that
produce it.
3.3
Justification
of descriptors.- With a relevant seductive burden, the
impact of
the information without
frontiers that the media obtain, citizen exchanges,
especially young ones, undertake an uncertain and risky migration
towards
spaces that guarantee the enjoyment of alternative welfare models.
Models that
these media sell, without informing the hidden and deceptive side of
the claim.
In spaces of tense reception, a slow and painful process of
socialization is
initiated that generates ghetos (local and psychological) and new
lifestyles,
supported by cultural hybrids.
RATIONALE | JUSTIFICATION
1.-
Purpose of the Project.-
Fundational Goals
2.- Design
of convergent programs.-
2.1
Context
Analysis.- Historically, the Mediterranean has been a
frontier, bridge
and reference point between three geographically and culturally
different
spaces: Mediterranean-South, Mediterranean-East, and
Mediterranean-North. This
difference continues to be the object of dialogue or confrontation,
generating
conflicts or proposing strategies for solving them. And in the recent
times,
receiving dyes of tragedy with the result known: A Mediterranean Sea
turned
into an improvised maritime necropolis.
2.2
Rationale
for convergence.- On the other hand, the biased
political-cultural
burden of the current educational, research and cultural programs,
often
designed from the 'interest' of the Mediterranean-North, makes it more
difficult for more bureaucratic-structural reasons than real ones, the
design
of convergent programs. This critical convergence would enrich the
reflexivity
that supposes the plurality and diversity of perspectives that concur
in the
zone. The nature and type of supply would be profitable thus avoiding
the
recurrence or duplication of the same to the benefit of a complex
demand (needs
of countries, regions or towns and current perspectives of these)
3.-
Innovative Dimension of the Project.-
3.1
Guarantor
System.- This innovation is that the Direction Council
(DC) can not
approve research projects, academic, cultural, or training programs
proposed by
the Academic Council
(AC), without a previous report of the Social Council (SC)
3.11
CS represents the complexity of civil society: States of opinion and
public
policies at different levels (local, regional, national and
international)
3.12
In its capacity as guarantor of the economic stability of the project,
and in
relation to point 3.1, after hearing the administrations involved, the
SC will
issue, at the same time, binding
reports on the foreseeable socio-economic
impact and financial viability of projects and Programs.
3.2
Spirit Bologna.-
We believe we have contributed to consolidate a university
structure, without academic or political-institutional pressure, based
on
Departments that, respecting the Bologna spirit to guarantee the
mobility that
it enshrines, is compatible with the interests of the other countries
of the
basin Mediterranean mobility, thus favoring complementary North-South,
South-North and South-South mobility.
3.3
Scholarship
Policy.- The EMUI is committed to a universal and gratifying
education, without introducing corrective mechanisms so
that students with
incomes higher than the average of the country of origin contribute to
defray
part of the real cost of education. Given that the Financial Plan is
part of a
Prix de
scolarité, considered public in some EU countries, it is
the competence
of the SC to negotiate
with the public and private institutions of the EuroMed
area a scholarship policy
to explicitly award candidates to the offer of the
EMUI
3.4
Junior and
Senior Fellowships.- The project is committed to the
training of its
own researchers and teaching staff, and annually calls for pre- and
postdoctoral fellowships for young people with solid
perspectives of quality
and excellence in Mediterranean studies. This
prioritization does not exclude
the constant and valuable collaboration of the specialized teaching
staff,
responsible
for projects and programs, which the universities of the Academic
Council makes
available to EMUI_ EuroMed University, at no additional cost.
3.5
Since 2008, the EMUI has a Digital Monitoring Center (EuroMed.
Social Technology and Digital Citizenship),
which measures
the impact of its programs and the demand for services.
4.-
Process of design and consolidation.-
(2007)
4.1 Inauguration.-
The Platform in question was officially inaugurated on
October 16,
2007 at the Mediterranean Conference Center (Valletta)
with the
institutional support of the Government
of the Republic of Malta and the
Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom from Spain.
From
this date the EMUI Platform, with public
center status, becomes a member of the
Anna-Lindh
Foundation EUROMED, establishing its provisional headquarters in
Malta.
4.11
On the proposal of the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Spain,
with the
endorsement of the Ministry for Education and Employment of Malta and
the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a promoter institution, the former
Spanish
Minister of Universities and Professor of Sociology, Dr. Luis Gonález-Seara,
assumes the maximum institutional representation of the EMUI, as
President, who
appoints Rector to Dr. Román Reyes,
Professor of Social and Legal
Sciences, promoter and project owner.
(2008)
4.2 First Academic
Consolidation.- Following the recommendations of the Foreign
Affairs Ministerial Conference of the European Union
(Final_Statement_Mediterranean_Union), which was hosted in
Marseille, on
November 3rd
and 4th, 2008, within the framework of The Paris Summit of the
Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean (July 13th, 2008),
EMUI
has signed cooperation agreements with other Euro-Mediterranean
institutions
(EMUI_ Universities Network).
4.21
This Network of Universities becomes an ad hoc Academic Council (Scientific
Committee)
and holds a Meeting in
Malta (31/01/2008) and Madrid
(31/05/2008). At the Malta
Meeting, the curriculum of the Advanced Diploma in
Euro-Mediterranean Studies
(ADEMS) and the Doctorate
in Mediterranean Studies, which is ratified at the
Madrid Meeting, is designed. It is also agreed to delegate to the
Director-Manager of the EMUI the design of a Degree in Mediterranean
Relations
and Cooperation, a project that is subsequently sent to
the Ministry of
Education of Malta, after consulting the Universities of the Consortium.
(2009)
4.3 Second Academic
Consolidation.- On 16/12/2009 The Governing Council of the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid creates, on the basis of the EMUI
Platform, a University Research Institute
with its own legal nature. In this way it
consolidates the one that intends to become South University EuroMed
with the
name of EMUI_ EuroMed University.
(2010)
4.4 Frustrated
Political Consolidation.- As a development of the
Agreements
taken in Marseille on 04/11/2008 at the Meeting of Foreign Affairs
Ministers of
the European Union, the Preparatory Commission of the
Second Euro-Mediterranean
Ministerial Meeting on Higher Education and Scientific Research,
in a meeting
held in Benidorm under the Spanish Presidency of the EU, agreed to
include on
the agenda the recognition
of the EMUI as a South-Mediterranean
Euro-Mediterranean University with its headquarters in Fes
and substations in
Malta and Madrid proposing the corresponding budget item . The Ministry
of
Education of the Government of Spain ceded to the counterpart of the
Kingdom of
Morocco the presentation and defense of the proposal.
4.41
In preparation for this Interministerial Conference, the EMUI was
convened by
the Rectors Conference
of the UfM (Union for the Mediterranean), which organized
the EuroMed Permanent
University Forum in Barcelona on 04/20/2010, with its
headquarters at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona.
4.42
The relevant Ministerial Council could not be held on 26/04/2010 in
Slovenia,
as scheduled, due to the difficulties of air travel at that time (ash
cloud of
the Icelandic volcano), with a predictable new call for the month of
November.2010, under Belgian Presidency of turn, call that finally did
not take
place.
(2012 ss)
4.5 Failing to consolidate the aforementioned political consolidation,
a
process of re-location of the EMUI_ EuroMedUniversity headquarters is
being
initiated. It is carried out through the University Institute of
Research EMUI
(Complutense University) in collaboration with the Universities of the
Consortium and the advice of the UNICA Network. These efforts result in
the
definitive installation of the official seat in the Ex - Monastero degli
Olivetani of Lecce (Italy), gaining legitimacy by virtue
of a Convention
between the proposing universities (Madrid Complutense and Università
del
Salento), signed on 12/11 / 2014, ratified for the period 2016-2020 by
the
Dipartamento
di Storia, Società e Studi sull'Unomo (Università del
Salento),
manager of the building, dated 11/30/2015
5.-
Experience acquired.-
As
this site is reported, the programming
planned for the period 2016-2020 is
the result of the experience of previous courses, tentative beginning
the year
following the creation of the project in 2007. This long experience has
recommended to update annually the Contents and methodology of the
offer,
adding to the circumstances and the demand
6.-
Linking the Project to the associated national strategies.-
6.1
The EMUI, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of
Spain
(Embassy in a Special Mission for Mediterranean Affairs) works to
ensure that
the countries involved (Israel, Egypt, Morocco and Italy) to endorse
the
project EMUI, as part of a basic governing body, the Academic Council.
6.2
The Acting President of EMUI EuroMed University has contacted the
institutional
representatives of these countries.
6.3
It is also the role of the Academic Council to ensure scrupulous
respect for
national strategies in Higher Education and Research in each of these
countries. This is the reason why the offer from the Platform is made
bear the
seal of the proposing institution, with the rest as collateral of the
resulting
degrees.
7.-
Contribution of the participating
countries.-
7.1
The UCM, through its University
Research Institute EMUI and in collaboration
with the network of Universities with which it has collaboration
agreements, is
the guarantor of the legitimacy and officiality of the programs that
are
offered from the Platform.
7.2
In addition, the Università del Salento, through its Dipartamento di Storia,
Società e Studi sull'Unomo, is the guarantor, with the
UCM, of the legal
support of reference.Responsibility that shares, under agreements, all
the
Universities that are part of the Academic Council.
7.3
The Univesità del Salento, in collaboration with the Municipality of
Lecce and
the Region of Puglia, has made available to the EMUI_ EuroMed Univesity
the
Ex-Monastero degli Olivetani,
which has become its official headquarters and
specific teaching-research space.
8.-
Approval of the project.-
Responsible administrations:
8.1
Academic-Institutional.-
All university institutions that are part of the
Academic Council have issued their corresponding reports of adhesion
and
linkage to the Project. At the
headquarters of the UfM are the respective
documents.
8.2
Administrative
Policy.- From its beginnings the Spanish Administration
has been
supporting and supporting the Project, through the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
and Cooperation and, specifically, through its Ambassador in Special
Mission
for Mediterranean Affairs. This
Ambassador
represents Spain before the Senior
Official Meeting (SOM_UfM). It
represents, therefore, the interests and will of the Government of
Spain,
reason why it becomes official spokesman of the Spanish politics in the
matter
of Higher Education and Research, as well as in designs of official
programs of
cultural character or of Continuing Formation. Through Spain,
the
Governments of Israel, Egypt, Morocco and Spain are informed of the
participation in the Project of university institutions of their
respective
administrations.
RELEVANCE TO UFM | PERTINENCE POUR L'UPM
1.-
The project is an effective Plate-Form
pour le dialogue politique et regionale.
The EMUI does not understand any program of political action in the
EuroMed
zone without a previous study of the circumstances that have advised
that intervention
and the level of opportunity and effectiveness of the same. The
academic
programs and researchers that the project has designed respond to this
demand
and the demand of experts at political-economic and regional level.
These
objectives can hardly be achieved without a plural and transversal
design,
which encourages dialogue and respects the uniqueness of each of the
affected
regions (political and geographical). This makes EMUI a project stratégique
pour la region.
2.-
The promoters of the project are convinced that it responds to all the domaines
stratégiques prioritaires de l'UpM. As much as to his
trois principal
stratégies theethics. This can be inferred from a careful reading of
the aims
of the EMUI and the design of its programs. It is obliged, to underline
that
already, on 14/10/2010 a Department of Equality and Women
Studies (DEWS) is
created. From EQUALITY_HUMAN
RIGHTS | (EuroMed
Permanent Seminar: Human Rights
and Gender Violence (Theory and Praxis in Gender Studies),
and the following
research projects: Voice and Women's Word (The
Sounds of the Mediterranean: The
Voice and the Word of Women), and, from the Research Group
THEORIA Women
Studies.
3.-
The co-appropriation of
the project is guaranteed in the terms specified in
paragraphs 6 and 7
above (Justification). The Social Council of the EMUI
manages the incorporation to the same of political representatives of
the
countries involved at the level of representation that has Italy
(Region of
Puglia and Municipality of Lecce). It is also the role of the Social
Council to
ensure cooperation at
regional level in specific projects.