European Students provide assistance for change in North African and Middle East universities
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The European Students’ Union (ESU) and the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) have set up a partnership to assist and support democratic change at universities in North African and Middle East countries, such as Jordan, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
ESU’s Chairperson, Bert Vandenkendelaere, said: “In the light of recent immigration flows from North Africa to France, Spain and Italy, it is of tremendous importance to improve the quality of education in North African and Middle East countries. They need our assistance in setting up high quality universities with the aim to improve the future life prospects of young people over there.”
ESU and EMUNI have offered to organise a range of trainings and workshops to support democratic change and promote human rights in higher education institutions. This support will be offered in Egypt and Jordan in 2012. ESU and EMUNI will be asking for support of a range of international organisations, such as the UN, EU, UNESCO and OECD
The partnership aims to create the right foundation for matters relating to students’ participation in governance, cross-border mobility, diploma recognition and the social dimension of the Bologna Process.
The European Universities Association (EUA) and the Euromed Permanent University Forum (EPUF) will also join the exceptional partnership. EMUNI (www.emuni.si), one of the key projects of the Union for the Mediterranean (EuroMed), is an international network of universities from this region. President of EMUNI University, Prof. Dr. Joseph Mifsud, said: “Our priorities have ranged from land highways to higher education and research. But we have also focused on the development of schools, summer schools, research seminars and European projects where we bring together young people to work together and to speak together the same language, the language of research and excellence.”
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