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About
The Mediterranean basin is renowned for its natural diversity, but also for its pressing
environmental problems. The countries of its southern shore are particularly vulnerable to these
problems, because their socio-economic reality is full of difficulties directly linked to their
environment.
Besides the general problems: such as waste management, water and air pollution and their effects
on the health of the population, these countries have serious problems related to desertification,
deforestation and threats to biodiversity directly caused by environmental changes and having
serious consequences for their economies, in particular in the agriculture and tourism sectors.
Therefore, the strategic management of environmental changes will be essential to seize the socio-
economic opportunities linked to environmental changes and to minimize their risks.
The Objective of the MEHMED Project
The broader objective of this project is therefore to enable Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian higher
education institutions to develop and implement a new master’s program in the field of
environmental change management in the Mediterranean. Master Study and Ecosystem Building
(MEHMED) aligned with the Bologna educational approach (duration 2 years).
To this end, EU higher education institutions will transfer their knowledge and experience from the
corresponding diplomas to higher education institutions in partner countries and participate in the
joint development of a new curriculum in line with European standards and international standards
and the demands of the labor market in order to prepare students for the application of their
knowledge, skills and competences in the field of the environment and sustainable development.
The new master will adopt a multidisciplinary approach, thanks to the collaboration of various
faculties and the participation of graduate students from different academic fields. MEHMED will be
developed in collaboration with various Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian public and private actors in
the environmental sector and will include an internship module thematically linked to students’
master’s theses in order to improve the employability of former students.
The specific objectives of the MEHMED project are as follows:
Develop and implement the master’s program in management of environmental changes in
the Mediterranean in Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian universities, through a Bologna
pedagogical approach;
• Develop a practical skills-based methodology that facilitates graduate students’ access to the
labor market and promotes business creation, thereby meeting the concrete needs of
national economies and strengthening the policies and strategic development plans of
educational institutions. Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian higher education;• Create sustainable means for safeguarding and management of environmental changes and
develop scientific strategies for environmental programs to ensure the knowledge value
chain concepts of the main program;
• Increase the mobility of graduate students and university professors;
• Promote online learning strategies through a blended learning approach;
• Strengthen relations between Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian and European higher education
institutions and ensure the institutionalization and internationalization of research areas
related to environmental change through an inter-university association
• Promote the training of university teachers in the field of environmental change management
in order to guarantee the quality of teaching and improve the scientific profile of researchers.
Master MEHMED
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