Internationale Projekte

EMUNI

The Euro-Mediterranean University - EMUNI University - was established on 9 June 2008 as an international higher education and research institution. The Joint Declaration of the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean (July 2008) specified EMUNI as one of the priority projects of the Union for the Mediterranean. EMUNI is a unique university, serving as a hub for networking of institutions, advancing the exchange of students, research and academic staff, the development of joint study programmes and projects in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Since 2010, 142 higher education and research institutions from 37 countries are members of EMUNI.

EMUNI University’s work focuses on the Education and Research Activities. The main goals of its operation are: promoting the priorities of the Union for the Mediterranean; fostering cooperation among higher education and research institutions throughout the Euro-Mediterranean region; strengthening student mobility; strengthening academic mobility; enabling diverse educational and research study programmes at various locations throughout the whole Euro-Mediterranean region; transferring knowledge and the direct application thereof; raising awareness of multiethnic, multicultural and multireligious diversity of the Euro-Mediterranean. From its official establishment in 2009 EMUNI University successfully developed activities in the field in education and research, which have already become traditional activities of the university and also contributed to the visibility of EMUNI University in the region.

EMUNI’s activities involve Master and Doctoral study programmes, professional training and summer courses, doctoral research seminars, projects, conferences and issuing different publications. EMUNI’s thematic focus is on the Priority Areas of the Union for the Mediterranean and on other areas that are currently of focal interest of the Euro-Mediterranean and broader international community, such as: Maritime and Land Highways, Civil Protection, Use of Alternative Energies, Higher Education and Research, Business Development and Economic Studies, Maritime Issues, Culture and Tourism, Human Rights and Migration, Euro-Mediterranean Studies, Gender Issues, Development Studies, Water Management, Performing Arts and Regional Integration.

For more information please visit the website of EMUNI.