This event takes place as a complement to the series of lectures Aula Mediterrània 2024-25, a result of the collaboration between the IEMed and the academic world. It brings together experts and the latest research on various topics related to the Mediterranean.

PROGRAMME

Euro-Mediterranean Academic and Research Cooperation

Monday 24 February 2025

9.00 – 9.30 Accreditations

9.30 – 10.00 Welcoming remarks

10.00 – 11.30 Round table I: 30 years of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on research: past perspectives and future trends

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30 Round table II: Promoting shared academic values. Freedom, integrity and dialog in the Euro-Mediterranean region

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 16.30 Round table III: Tools to promote research and higher education on the Mediterranea

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00 Award Ceremony for the Best Aula Mediterrània Master’s Dissertation – 5th Edition

• Senén Florensa, Executive President, IEMed
• Felip Roca, Director of International Relations Services, Barcelona City Council*
• Aïda Díaz Sàez, International Plan Manager, Department of Research and Universitites, Generalitat de Catalunya

Presents: Elisabetta Ciuccarelli, Programme Manager, Culture, Gender and Civil Society department, IEMed

Dialogue among the winners of the Best Master’s Dissertations

• Ismael Santos Smaq Molina, Master’s Degrees; Master’s Degree in History and Identities in the Western Mediterranean (15th-19th Centuries), UB/UA/UV/Universitat Jaume I
• Iman Soliman, Master’s Degree in International Security, IBEI
• Chaima Ben Ahmed Homya, Master’s Degree in International Relations, Security and Development, UAB*

Chair: Jorge Luengo, Tenure Track Professor in Modern History, UPF

Languages: Catalan, Spanish and English with translation

All the sessions scheduled for the 24th of February will take place in the Sala Pere i Joan Coromines

Research analyses the challenges of the Mediterranean

Tuesday 25 February 2025

9.30 – 11.30 Workshop Aula Mediterrània

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 14.00 Parallel sessions

Session 1: Education, Gender and Migration. Current challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Master’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Organizations, CEI-UB/IBEI Masters
Chair: Andrea Noferini (CEI)

Language: English

Speakers:

• Education and Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation: Digital Innovation, Active Learning, and the Global Knowledge Divide
  Alessia Chiriatti, Head of the IAI’s Educational Programme and Researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali
• Gender Justice in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
  Hiba El Khamal, Coordinator of Women’s Rights and Gender Justice Programme at EuroMed Rights
• Securitisation and externalisation of border and migration control in the Mediterranean space
  Lorenzo Gabrielli, Senior Researcher at GRITIM-UPF

 🔎 Full programme available here