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The Mediterranean basin is renowned for its natural diversity, but also for its pressing environmental problems. The countries on its southern shore are particularly vulnerable to these problems, since their socio-economic reality is full of difficulties directly linked to their environment.
Apart from 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 change and having serious consequences for their economies, particularly 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 the 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, higher education institutions in the EU will transfer their knowledge and experience of the corresponding degrees to higher education institutions in the partner countries and participate in the joint development of a new curriculum in line with European standards and international and labor market requirements in order to prepare students for the application of their knowledge, skills and competences in the field of 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 different Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian public and private actors in the environmental sector and will include an internship module thematically linked to the students’ master’s theses in order to improve the employability of alumni.
The specific objectives of the MEHMED project are:
- Develop and implement the master’s program in environmental change management in the Mediterranean in Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian universities, through a Bologna pedagogical approach;
- Develop a practical skills-based methodology that facilitates the access of graduate students to the labor market and promotes business creation, thus responding to the concrete needs of national economies and strengthening the strategic development policies and plans of educational institutions higher education Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians;
- Create sustainable means for safeguarding and managing environmental change and develop science-based strategies for environmental programs to ensure core program knowledge value chain concepts;
- 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 fields related to environmental change through an interuniversity 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.
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