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With 40% of the population under the age of 25 in some areas of the Mediterranean, youth unemployment and under-employment in the region has been among the highest in the world for more than two decades. Unemployment is highest amongst those with tertiary education (as opposed to those without) reaching an average of 30% acrossإقرأ المزيد

1 June 2021 – The 2007 Cairo Declaration aspired towards the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean Higher Education and Research Area. Almost 15 years have passed since then, establishing the necessity to rethink the needs and aims of higher education against current challenges and opportunities. To this end, the CMI and the UfM organize a web-meeting toإقرأ المزيد

تملك منطقتنا إمكانيات هائلة، خاصة مع تمتعها بمجموعة سكانية تعد واحدة من أصغر المجموعات السكانية عمرًا على سطح الكوكب. ورغم ذلك، فالكثيرين منهم مهمَلين، حيث تخلف ما يصل إلى ثلث شبابنا عن الدراسة في وقت مبكر دون تدريب أو عمل. ويؤدي هذا الوضع إلى استمرار الفقر والتهميش الاجتماعي، حيث تصبح الوظائف غير الرسمية هي الحلإقرأ المزيد

Barcelona, 19 November 2020 – The UfM Secretariat organised today a Webinar on how the challenges posed by the acceleration of digital transformation in higher education due to the covid-19 pandemic can be transformed into opportunities for the improvement of the quality and inclusiveness of teaching. Eight speakers, representing the diversity of stakeholders concerned byإقرأ المزيد

19 November. The UfM Webinar on the acceleration of digital transformation of higher education in the Mediterranean will take place online on 19 November from 10:00 to 11:30 CET.  Digital transformation of higher education was already a reality before the coronavirus crisis, but the current pandemic is accelerating the process. The confinement measures forced universities, at very different stages of digital transformation, to findإقرأ المزيد

29 April 2020. The UfM will organise an informal online discussion with a view to taking stock of the impacts of the pandemic, as well as lessons learned and deficiencies, while facilitating exchange of best practices and encouraging policy transfer, and indicating the possible way forward as regards adequate and affordable housing in the region. Theإقرأ المزيد

10أبريل 2020. شاركت الأمانة العامة للاتحاد من أجل المتوسط في الاجتماع الافتراضي لمجلس إدارة الجامعة الأورومتوسطية ” EMUNI” من أجل مناقشة الاستجابات المحتملة للتحديات والفرص التعليمية لجائحة فيروس كورونا المستجد (كوفيد-19). تم وضع مقترحات محددة حول قضايا معينة مثل البرامج الدراسية الجديدة ذات الصلة أو التحول الرقمي للتعليم والتدريب في إطار التحضير لاجتماع مجلس شيوخ الجامعةإقرأ المزيد

20 February 2020, Rome. The MedNC Steering Committee will take place in Rome on 20 February 2020. The MedNC Steering Committee will focus on developing ‎synergies, exchanging experiences and sharing best practices among the ‎local partners of the MedNC consortium. ‎The main objective of the Mediterranean New Chance (MedNC) programme ‎is to provide young people who have been excluded from the ‎labour marketإقرأ المزيد

Cairo, 1 December. This meeting is jointly organized by the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Egypt. It will bring together representatives from Ministries of Higher Education of UfM Member States, key regional and international partner organizations, higher education institutions and relevant regionalإقرأ المزيد

27 November 2019, Barcelona. On the occasion of the 2019 MedNC Annual Conference, held at the UfM’s Headquarters in Barcelona (Spain), the UfM signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institut européen de coopération et de développement (IECD), promoter of the UfM-labelled regional project Mediterranean New Chance (MedNC), and the consortium led by Theإقرأ المزيد