Higher Education in the Euro- Mediterranean Area
Start Date
December 01, 2019
End Date
December 01, 2019
Type
Meeting
Location
Cairo
1 December 2019. New Cairo, Egypt. UfM 3rd Regional Meeting on Higher Education Internationalisation
Session 1 - Towards a renewed Strategic Agenda for Higher Education in the Euro-Mediterranean Area
- Presentation of the main results from the regional consultation process on the key challenges, needs and requirements for strengthening structural cooperation.
- Feedback from countries on the main results: proposed priorities, follow-up mechanism and process.
- Agreement on the next steps and validation process: presentation to the SOM for endorsement by the 43 UfM Member States (Spring 2020).
Session 2 - Building upon experience: Lessons from regional initiatives and projects
- Sharing of experience by ongoing regional initiatives and projects.
- Exchange on the most important challenges or needs the initiatives and projects are facing to achieve greater and more structural impact.
- Roundtable discussion aiming at identifying specific support needed by countries and stakeholders and possible actions to be included in the Strategic Agenda for Higher Education in the Mediterranean Area.
Session 3 - Strengthening regional partnerships and cooperation
- Ways to enhance cross-fertilisation between parallel intergovernmental processes in the region
- Exchange on the most important challenges or needs the countries are facing to further develop South-South cooperation.
- Roundtable discussion aiming at identifying specific support needed by countries, and stakeholders and possible actions to be included in the Strategic Agenda for Higher Education in the Mediterranean Area.
