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OUR VISION

The Mediterranean region has extraordinary human, cultural and natural resources that enables its people to cope with unprecedented challenges. However, the region urgently needs new competences and skills for leading the transition towards a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient model.

We believe that these competences and skills can be found in the excellent job done in transnational cooperation projects run in the framework of the Interreg MED Programme that enabled a productive cooperation amongst Euro-Mediterranean stakeholders with an impact that goes well beyond its partner countries.

By creating the “Interreg Euro-MED Academy” the Interreg MED thematic Communities and PANORAMED are joining forces to make accessible and available to a wider audience the knowledge and skills developed by its transnational cooperation projects with the ultimate ambition of shaping the “Next Generation of Mediterranean Leaders of inclusive and sustainable development”.

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The Interreg Euro-Med Academy's overall objectives

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Interreg MED projects, both from the Thematic Communities and PANORAMED, have largely invested in training, seminars and summer schools to transfer the knowledge and hands-on experiences acquired in the framework of their activities and to capitalise on their results. All these initiatives highly contributed to the success of the projects and of the Programme, but most of them were run in complete isolation, had a limited outreach, and their mid and long term impact has been in some occasions quite difficult to assess and measure.

By creating an “Interreg Euro-Med Academy” delivering training on strategic issues addressed by the Interreg MED Programme on-line and in presence, we would like to join forces to:

support the transferring and capitalising actions by creating a “community of interest” of Mediterranean stakeholders around the topics addressed by the Academy and a network of alumni that had the opportunity to attend our courses;
facilitate the collaboration between Horizontal Projects and PANORAMED focalised on the design and organisation of courses addressing our primary audiences learning needs and not necessarily the Interreg MED Programme project partnerships;
better coordinate the communication, transferring and capitalisation actions to reach out a wider public, to invite them to enrol to our courses and to keep the relation alive even once the courses are over;
facilitate the emergence and adoption of a shared methodology and quality standard to share the knowledge and hands-on experience, and to highlight case studies coming from the transnational cooperation projects.

The “Interreg Euro-Med Academy” could, therefore, become a strategic tool to support the transfer and capitalisation work packages while strongly contributing to the communication of the whole Programme by demonstrating that it has created a forward-looking Community of Mediterranean stakeholders able to join forces to adapt to evolving situations.

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Where the idea comes from

All the Horizontal Projects are facing multiple challenges to transfer and capitalise on their communities’ results, while PANORAMED is striving to mainstream its results at policy level. Besides, the prolonged lockdowns, mobility limitations and uncertainties about the future have not made things any easier. In an effort to keep the link alive inside the communities and to try somehow to connect the “givers” and “takers”, everybody has been organising virtual events (conferences, networking events, seminars, training, etc.) with mixed results.

As we have all experienced the limits of webinars and online workshops, and we have noticed a growing fatigue for online events, we have decided to go for something more structured, potentially useful for our audiences even though much more challenging to organise than a webinar series: an e-learning platform to deliver MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses. We actually cherished the idea of an online learning offer mainly, but not exclusively, for Euro-Mediterranean policy-makers as a tool to transfer and capitalise on the knowledge, competences and results of our communities of transnational projects.

We have opted for realising a series of MOOC because, since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, there has been an impressive growth in courses offered and learners (of all the learners of the MOOCs one third registered in 2020), and notwithstanding a widespread fatigue for virtual events, MOOCs learners keep on increasing even in 2021.

So, since last January 2021 all the Horizontal Projects and PANORAMED with the contribution of the Joint Secretariat under the impulse and coordination of UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union (WP2 Lead partner of Sustainable Tourism and Urban Transports communities) have been working on putting together a learning offer that could encompass most of the communities’ fields of intervention and that, at the same time, could take into account the priorities of the new Interreg Euro-MED programming period and of the Next Generation EU strategy.

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Technical partner

The Interreg Euro-MED Academy has been designed and developed by e-Mentor, an agency specialised in developing designing and developing e-learning, edutainment and serious gaming solutions for companies, government agencies, universities and business schools, in and outside Italy, for 15 years.

Website: www.e-mentor.it

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