Reaching of university students and effective academia-policy dialogue can help spread a new sense of optimism across the Euro-Mediterranean region. The MED-HUB project (Knowledge Hub on the Euro-Mediterranean region) will explore effective ways to do so.
43 participants from across the region attended the opening conference of the Jean Monnet project MED-HUB that was awarded to EMUNI by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The project has a threefold aim. First, it aims to encourage introduction of aspects of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation into the existing teaching activities of university students, or draft a curriculum that adequately captures regional challenges. Secondly, it aims to promote policy-academia discussion on current (topical) issues. Third, it aims to create an interdisciplinary network of experts on the Mediterranean, who will promote the dialogue on the EU-Mediterranean relations.
The invited speakers at the event and their presentations reflected the variety of issues that support the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. The future events in this 18-months project will be focused on certain issue areas, such as human rights and democratisation in the Euro-Mediterranean region; applied science and technology; economies; societies and culture; values and religion. The events will take place across the Mediterranean and will be implemented in close cooperation with academic staff from ZRS Koper. The closing conference foreseen for spring 2020 will disseminate key conclusions of the workshops to formalise the network and finalise the curriculum recommendations.
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