International Partnerships
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Al Fanar Media – AFM (UK)
Al Fanar Media (AFM) – a project of the Alexandria Trust – is an independent nonprofit news organization focusing on education, research and culture in the Arab region. All AFM stories, commentary and resources are published in both Arabic and English. |
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Anna Lindh Foundation – ALF (Egypt)
The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF) is an international organisation composed of forty-two Euro-Mediterranean countries. Its aim is to bring people together as a way to promote dialogue between cultures and respect for diversity. |
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Association of Arab Universities – AARU (Jordan)
The Association of Arab Universities (AARU) is an organisation working within the framework of the Arab League. It is based in Amman, Jordan. The objective of the organization is to support and connect universities in the Arab world, and to enhance cooperation among them. |
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Erasmus Student Network - ESN (Belgium)
The Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is the biggest volunteer-based student organisation active in the field of student mobility and internationalisation of higher education. |
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European Foundation Centre – EFC (Belgium)
The European Foundation Centre (EFC) is an independent international non profit association whose mission is to strengthen the philanthropic sector through cooperation between partners. Founded in 1989 by 7 foundations, today the EFC has 236 members – predominantly foundations – from 40 different countries. As a leading platform for philanthropy in Europe, the EFC works to strengthen the sector and make the case for institutional philanthropy as a formidable means of effecting change. Within this partnership, UNIMED and EFC gain skills and share expertise, insights and knowledge, connect people and amplify ideas for a stronger institutional philanthropy able to face current challenges. |
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European Investment Bank - EIB (Luxembourg)
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the lending arm of the European Union. It is the biggest multilateral financial institution in the world and one of the largest providers of climate finance. |
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European Training Foundation - ETF (Italy)
The European Training Foundation (ETF) is the EU agency supporting countries surrounding the European Union to reform their education, training and labour market systems. |
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO (Italy)
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. |
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Fondation Maison Sciences de l’Homme - FMSH (France)
The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), founded in 1963 by Fernand Braudel in Paris, is both a national and international crossroad which contributes to the development, vibrancy and attractiveness of social sciences and humanities. |
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Fondazione di Sardegna – FdS (Italy)
Fondazione di Sardegna is a private foundation having as a main goal the promotion of Sardinia Region socio-economic development. |
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Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo (Spain) The Fundación Tres Culturas works every day to promote dialogue, peace and tolerance between peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean through a wide training and cultural offer. The goal of the agreement with UNIMED is to develop joint initiatives and actions in areas of shared interests such as intercultural dialogue, mobility and migration, employability, and heritage. It also aims to encourage the cooperation between universities and civil society actors, particularly in collaboration with the UNIMED SubNetwork for Mobility and intercultural dialogue, which was born in the framework of the Erasmus+ project DIRE-MED. |
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International Association of Universities – IAU (France) The International Association of Universities (IAU) is an independent organisation with over 650 Member universities and organisations in 120 countries. Created under the auspices |
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International Training Centre of the ILO - ITCILO
The International Training Centre is an advanced technical and vocational training institution in the heart of a riverside park in Turin, Italy. Founded in 1964 by the International Labour Organization and the Government of Italy, the Centre’s mission is to achieve decent work for all women and men. The partnership with the ITC-ILO aims at offering learning, knowledge-sharing, and institutional capacity-building programmes within the UNIMED network and with the ILO-ITC partners. In particular, in the framework of the SubNetwork on Employability, it aims to set up a forum where development intersects with all forms of knowledge in the world of work, from tripartism to technology. |
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Lifelong Learning Platform - LLLP (Belgium)
The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) is an umbrella organisation that gathers 42 European organisations active in the field of education, training and youth, representing more than 50.000 educational institutions and associations. LLLP deals with innovative practices exchange and with supporting dialogue between civil society organisations and public authorities (mostly the European Commission) through advocacy. The partnership with LLLP has the objective of being continuously updated on the European Commission policy developments in the field of LLL and to be able to reach the members of the LLLP platform with our news. This partnership was developed within the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project but is useful also for other UNIMED activities. |
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Migrants dans l’Enseignement Supérieur – MenS (France)
The network Migrants dans l’Enseignement Supérieur (MEnS) was founded in September 2017 with the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU). It brings together and coordinates higher education institutions (universities, schools, institutes) and associations, committed to the reception and integration of students and researchers in exile in France. The objective of this network is to take political action with the public authorities in order to alert them on the situation of migrants, and to develop actions aimed at improving their integration (access to studies, recognition of diplomas, French courses, and coordination actions at local and national level). Working groups have been organized around key questions and thus allow national actors to meet, exchange information and share good practices. |
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Région Sud - Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur (France)
The South Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region (PACA) is a French territorial community. |
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Union for the Mediterranean – UfM (Spain)
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) is an intergovernmental Euro-Mediterranean organisation which brings together all 28 countries of the European Union and 15 countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. The UfM’s mission is to enhance regional cooperation, dialogue and the implementation of projects and initiatives with tangible impact on civil society, with an emphasis on young people and women, in order to address the three strategic objectives of the region: stability, human development and integration. The cooperation agreement UfM-UNIMED is strictly related to enhance the higher education and research opportunities in the Southern Mediterranean countries, with particular attention to some crucial themes for this region: environment, climate change, blue economy, energy, transports, employability, international mobility, migration. It also includes possibilities of synergies within the framework of the UNIMED Subnetwork on Employability. |
Other collaborations