Dialogue Interculturel, REseaux et Mobilité en MEDiterranée

The DIRE-MED project sought to establish, through university cooperation, a lasting relationship of mutual trust and intercultural awareness between the countries of the Mediterranean, promoting the mobility of people, exchange and, in the long term, greater economic and cultural integration in the region region.During its lifetime, DIRE-MED has:- developed a collection of good practices in terms of international mobility management.(https://www.diremedproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/574184_D1.2_recueil-BP-1.pdf)- defined an internationalization framework and an action plan to facilitate exchanges of students, academic and non-academic staff of HEIs in the Mediterranean Bassin.(https://www.diremedproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/574184_D2.1_cadreinternationalisation.pdf)- strengthened the capacities of the staff of the International Relations Offices of HEIs in Partner Countries, in order to configure them as “Offices of international opportunities” through training seminars, training visits and workshops at the local level.(https://www.diremedproject.eu/leprojet/renforcement-des-capacites-du-personnel/)- set up 69 mobilities: 32 student mobilities and 37 staff mobilities (20 academic staff and 17 administrative staff). 8 were made in the North / South direction, 16 in the South / North direction and 45 in the South / South direction.(https://www.diremedproject.eu/mobilites/)- organized 2 intercultural dialogue events to articulate university-society cooperation through the promotion of intercultural dialogue (https://www.diremedproject.eu/le-projet/promotion-du-dialoguesocial-et-interculturel/). The first one hold in Tangiers and the second one online, due to the pandemic crisis.- defined recommendations at the national level of each of the 3 Maghreb countries and at the regional level. (https://www.diremedproject.eu/wpcontent/uploads/2021/03/574184_D2_3_recommandations.pdf)Finally, the partners have defined a sustainability plan to ensure the sustainability of theachievements of the project beyond the end of the project. (https://www.diremedproject.eu/leprojet/plan-de-soutenabilite/).