RESUME project presentation during the UW in Brussels

1. “Governance of HEIs and Employability:
UNIMED experience with RESUME project”
Silvia Marchionne, Project Officer, UNIMED –
Mediterranean Universities Union
Brussels, 29 March 2017

2. • Regional dimension: not only at institutional level but
also on a society perspective as a whole
• Need of a country tailored approach that means
integrated approach to find better solutions for
better employability
General framework

3. 1. Inter + intra ministerial cooperation
2. Socio-economical actors
(enterprises, private sector…)
3. University (academic and non-
academy community)
Actors/dimensions to be taken into account

4. University Governance dimensions to be taken
into account for better employability
1. Mission & Goals
2. Management
3. Autonomy
4. Accountability (Social Responsibility)
5. Participation

6. PROJECT RESUME
Mediterranean Network for Employability
PROGRAMME Erasmus+, KA2 – Capacity-building
in the Field of Higher Education
DURATION 15/10/2015 - 14/10/2018
AIM Enhancing and reinforcing the role and potential of HEIs in the
development of employability in the Mediterranean countries by adopting
a transversal entrepreneurial mind-set at the HEIs and by opening and
structuring the dialogue among the universities, the enterprises and the
policy makers
LEAD CONTRACTOR
PARTNERS UNIME (Italy), AMU (France), UB (Spain), AlmaLaurea (Italy), Ville de Marseille
(France), IAV (Morocco), UM5R (Morocco), US (Tunisia),
USf (Tunisia), UL (Lebanon), USEK (Lebanon), AFEM (Morocco),
MESFCRS (Morocco), MESRS (Tunisia), DGHE (Lebanon)
ASSOCIATE
PARTNER
ASCAME (Spain)

7. RESUME Project Best practices
Exemple from Tunisia - MESRS: Co-construction of
training courses: university / business trust contract
Exemple from Morocco – Hassan II IAV: Involvement
of professionals in the development of training
curricula (Organization of a pedagogical day)
Exemple from Lebanon - DGHE: Development of
partnerships with companies (orientation councils,
lifelong learning…)

8. Best practices from UNIMED members
• Egypt – Damanhour University: Egyptian Social
Fund for Development (SFD) launched an
Entrepreneurship Education Programme to
introduce entrepreneurship curriculum in selected
universities and colleges across the country.
Palestine – An Najah University: Improving of
Interns’ Soft Skills towards the Employability in
Palestinian Food Industries

9. Identification & selection of good practices
Up today 197 good
practices identified by the
project

10. RESUME Impact on Short and Long term
perspective
• Increased knowledge of entrepreneurship in target
universities
• The enterprises use the services of the University
Business Development Center
• Networked Incubators
• The corporate culture is disseminated in the academic
world of the target countries
• Relationships between Universities and Enterprises
become closer

11. Synergies & Cooperation with International
stakeholders, initiatives and projects
•Union for the Mediterranean
(Med4Jobs)
•CMI/World Bank
•ASCAME
•CPRM
•MedCities
•Other…

12. Future Actions
• Sub-Network on Mediterranean Employability with
focus on Women entrepreneurship and Incubators
• Guidelines/manual on best solutions for
employability

13. Thank you for your attention!
To find out more on RESUME project:
www.resumeproject.eu
or write to
s.marchionne@uni-med.net