MAReN - Mediterranean Automatic Recognition Network

The main objective of the project “MAReN: Mediterranean Automatic Recognition Network” is to support and encourage achieving the goals of the European Education Area, in particular the implementation of the Council recommendation on promoting automatic recognition of higher education and upper secondary diplomas and the outcomes of learning periods abroad. The scope of the MAReN project is to foster automatic recognition in the Mediterranean region, starting from the project partner countries, by creating a network of ENIC-NARIC centres working on automatic recognition in the Mediterranean region; developing tools to support the daily work of credential evaluators; establishing synergies with other initiatives related to automatic recognition in other regions, especially the one developed in the Adriatic region with the AdReN project. The project team is composed by CIMEA as coordinator with ASHE, FEI, NARIC Spain, NARIC Portugal as partners. To coordinate the actions of the network, its secretariat will be established at the University of Naples Federico II that will guarantee the sustainability of the network after the lifetime of the project. All projects outcomes will be available on the MAReN website that will be the tool to be used by all the relevant stakeholders. The expected project impact is the implementation of automatic recognition between the countries of the Mediterranean region through the development of tools, like the comparison table, that are intended to support higher education institutions and other stakeholders in the field. Another important aspect related to this project is the enhancement of cooperation between the NARICs of the Mediterranean Region and, as a consequence and thanks to their involvement, the ministries of higher education of the countries involved that will be facilitated by the establishing of the secretariat of the network.