EuNIT Kick-Off Meeting held on the 30th and 31st January, 2017 – Villa Valmer, Marseilles

The Erasmus + Capacity Building in Higher Education project EuNIT was officially launched on the 30th and 31st January, 2017 at the Villa Valmer, Marseilles, France. This was an opportunity for all project partners to come together to discuss and exchange about the project activities and their implementation.

The meeting was opened by speeches from Mr. Jean Roatta, Deputy Mayor in charge of International Relations and Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation, Ville de Marseille, Mrs Sylvie Daviet, Vice President in charge of International Relations, Aix-Marseille University and Mr. Michel Autric, President of the TETHYS network, Aix-Marseille University.

Work Package leaders presented the upcoming activities of the project which enabled partners to have profitable exchanges regarding their collaboration. The upcoming activities discussed in detail concerned the observation period for South Mediterranean university representatives in European partner institutions and the launch of the EuNIT training programme for selected participants from the South Mediterranean partner universities.

For more information on the EuNIT project activities and partnership please follow this link: http://tethys.univ-amu.fr/fr/node/348

Representatives from the following institutions attended the meeting:

Ville de Marseille, France

Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Aix-Marseille University, France

University of Split, Croatia

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

UNIMED, (Rome) Italy

University of Messina, Italy

The Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

University of Barcelona, Spain

University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain

Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan

Yarmouk University, Jordan

Antonine University, Lebanon

University of Balamand, Lebanon

Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon

University of Misurata, Libya

University of Tripoli, Libya

Zawia University, Libya