The world is facing an unprecedented crisis: social distancing measures to combat COVID-19 are having a massive impact on education and training, everywhere. Schools and training centres have had to close from one day to the next. To help people deal ...
Leggi Articolo »Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie – AUF: COVID-19 Pandemic special plan – International call for Projects
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic facing the world, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie – AUF has put in place a vast action plan for its member institutions and partners. Here available in English and French. Among the programmed actions ...
Leggi Articolo »Student Exchanges in Times of Crisis. The Impact of COVID-19 on student exchange in Europe // A report of the ESN
The Erasmus Student Network – ESN – has written a research report titled “Student Exchanges in Times of Crisis. The Impact of COVID-19 on student exchange in Europe” to capture the experiences of students and trainees across Europe regarding the ...
Leggi Articolo »The Anna Lindh Foundation and UNIMED prepare to launch the Call: “#Covid-19: Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue and Cooperation must continue”
In the midst of the current and unexpected pandemic the Anna Lindh Foundation and UNIMED are committed to build a coalition of actors calling for increased cooperation and intercultural dialogue and exchange across the Euro-Med region. The fast spreading of ...
Leggi Articolo »UNIMED joins the UNESCO Global Education Coalition
In this challenging times when the Covid-19 outbreak is causing severe difficulties to education all over the world, UNIMED is glad to join the Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO. The Global Education Coalition seeks to facilitate inclusive learning opportunities ...
Leggi Articolo »The sensors of the “Mediwarn” project to support Covid-19 emergency management
“Ten of the twelve sensors purchased thanks to the Mediwarn project are used within the Infectious Diseases Operational Unit of San Marco Hospital in Catania where infected and symptomatic patients for Covid viral disease are isolated in negative pressure rooms ...
Leggi Articolo »UNIMED has joined the initiative for the regularisation of undocumented migrants in Italy
UNIMED has joined the initiative launched by LegalTeam Italia, Campagna LasciateCIEntrare, Progetto Melting Pot Europa and Medicina Democratica concerning the urgent need for a regularisation of the “irregular” migrants in Italy. Among the priorities of UNIMED, the topic of Migration ...
Leggi Articolo »High interest for Virtual Exchange to empower online teaching in times of emergency
As the COVID-19 emergency and the connected lockdown do not seem to diminish, in order not to disruption educational activities the global higher education community is experimenting a number of online teaching methodology. Virtual Exchange is one of these: apart ...
Leggi Articolo »Online Resilience: collection of Online Learning Stories during COVID-19
As COVID-19 continues spreading in many countries of the world, how to keep learning in disruption has become a major challenge to the global education community, and eLearning is one of the ways to keep learning alive. In this regard, ...
Leggi Articolo »Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
UNIMED has signed the statement by Wellcome and call its university members and the research community to ensure that their work on the COVID-19 outbreak is shared rapidly and openly to inform the public health response and help save lives.
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