Union for the Mediterranean backs new project to set up a Euro-Mediterranean University in Morocco

A project setting up the Euro-Mediterranean University of Morocco (Euromed-UM) has been ‘labelled’ by senior officials from the 43 Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) member states at their meeting in Barcelona in late June. The new university, to be located in Fes, will be an International Centre of Higher Education and Research with a specific focus on Euro-Mediterranean issues and priorities. 

The first priority programmes of Euromed-UM will be:

1) History, Cultural Heritage and Civilisations of the Mediterranean;
2) Political and Economic Sciences and Law; and
3) Solar energy and related fields in Materials Engineering. 

The construction of the university will commence in 2012, with its inauguration set to take place in 2014. The completion of the Euromed-UM structure will be finalised in 2021, when the buildings and the implementation of all the education and research programmes will have been completed. The university will accommodate around 3,000 students from across the region. Once a project receives the UfM 'label', the UfM Secretariat works to facilitate its promotion, especially its financing needs, in collaboration and agreement with the project’s promoters. This requires Secretariat contacting/discussing with funding banks and institutions, as well as assisting in removal of obstacles or impediments. Once financing arrangements have been finalised and the project launched, the Secretariat monitors its implementation, ensuring that criteria required for obtaining and keeping the UfM 'project label' are being met.

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Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat website