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  • PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP



    • From the 13th to the 15th November, took place the participatory workshop about the “Modernization of the teaching methods” at the University of Carthage. The 30 selected Tunisian teachers together with the project partners met to discuss about how to enhance the quality in higher education, following EU education policy.  During the morning the European partners (NRD-UNISS, UNIMED, UdG and AUTH) made their presentations about three key topics:

      a. the strategies and the methodologies for improving teaching;

      b. the learning processes;

      c. the student-oriented learning to meet the needs of the students.  All the participant exchanged their experiences during the afternoon round tables.


      VISIT TO THE THREE TUNISIAN HEIS 16_18Luglio

      The project coordinator Prof Luciano Gutierrez and the project Manager Dr Matteo Funaro visited the three Tunisian HEIs from the 16 to the 17 July 2018. During the visit were presented the analysis of the data collected through the questionnaire administered to the local institution’s professors and teachers, and to the enterprises. The participants gave they suggestions and observation, which were gathered and integrated into the Need Assessment Report.


      NEWS FROM THE CONSORTIUM AND UPCOMING EVENTS

      AQUASTAT Workshop: Launching the National Correspondents Network, 4-6 DECEMBER, Bari Italy http://www.fao.org/land-water/events/ events-detail/en/c/1171700/
      The second AQUASTAT Workshop will be held in Bari, Italy from 4 to 6 December 2018. This workshop represents an opportunity to discuss both content and format of the AQUASTAT database, the related questionnaire, data collection process and its challenges. It will gather a group of AQUASTAT national correspondents and international experts in water related domains, as well as experts from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (CIHEAM Bari) and from FAO.

      Water Security and Climate Change Conference, 3-7 DECEMBER 2018, Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.watersecurity.info
      The Water Security and Climate Change Conference (WSCC) 2018 will bring together researchers, professionals, practitioners, politicians, industry, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders to advance discussions towards water secure societies.

      Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa Region, 7-8 March 2019, Rabat, Morocco, https://www.hawhamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/events/mena.html
      The event will focus on “Accelerating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the MENA region”, meaning that it will serve the purpose of showcasing experiences from research, field projects and best practice to foster climate change adaptation among countries in the region, which may be useful or implemented elsewhere. The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, mobilizing scholars, social movements, practitionersand members of governmental agencies, undertaking research and/or executing climate change projects in countriesin the MENA region.

      International Forum on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, 19-22 March 2019, Praia, Cabo Verde. http://www.fao.org/land-water/events/events-detail/ en/c/1171696/
      The objective of the forum is to identify concrete - practical, innovative and collaborative - solutions to address water scarcity in agriculture in a changing climate.

      Useful_Link_01NEWS FROM TUNISIA

      More than half of Tunisia’s youth and highly educated have considered emigrating!
      The 13th of November, the Afrobarometer published the results of a survey about emigration tendencies. The results show that 58% of the highly educated young people, in the age range from 18-35 years old are planning to emigrate. The preferred destination is Europe and the main reason is to look for an employment opportunity. The results of the afrobarometer survey are perfectly in line with the one gather in the Partner institutions during the Need assessment activities of the MAYA Project. The students of the partner institutions are highly concerned with the unemployment rate, they are foreseeing to attend the proposed Master in order to increase their possibility to find a job.


      Career Centers and Certification Skills "4C"Platform is active! Useful_Link_2
      The 26th November, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has launched a program aimed to strengthen the Career Centers and Certification Skills "4C". Its objective is to improve the professional integration of graduates through a platform which gives access to all students and graduates of higher education to a service of counseling, training, certification and support to professional integration. The Tunisian Partner university of the MAYA Project are involved in it.


      ARTICLES AND STUDIES IN RELATED FIELDS

      Mader C. et al. (2015) The Education, Research, Society, and Policy Nexus of Sustainable Water Use in Semiarid Regions - A Case Study from Tunisia. In: Leal Filho W., Sümer V. (eds) Sustainable Water Use and Management. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham.
      Useful_Link_3From this article it is important to grasp some observations to reinforce the work planned with the MAYA Project:
      • The necessity to focus the Scientific Research on emerging challenges;
      • The importance of a formal and informal “Education for Sustainable Development ESD)” and especially on Sustainable Water Use.
      • Transdisciplinarity must be used in facing the Water Management,
      • Multi-actor perspective with a continuous dialogue among the stakeholders involved in the process.