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RESeaU Méditerranéen pour l’Employabilité
PRESS RELEASE
The Lebanese week on « Innovation & entrepreneurship: what challenges for universities? » will take place from the 4 to the 7 of July
The second millennium has brought a new definition of employability. The requests for competences are increasingly demanding and transversal. Our lives are being shaped by « Innovation for entrepreneurship or « entrepreneurship for innovation ». Social development depends on it, and new jobs tend to focus on « graduates offering competences and not graduates simply looking for work». Therefore, Higher Education Institutions cannot distance themselves from the new demands of the job market and must ensure the connection between course offers and the new conditions for employability. In order to guarantee proper communication among stakeholders on the value of knowledge in innovation and on socio-economic advancement, it is important to gather university members, socio-economic decision-makers and ministerial bodies at the same table.
These topics will be discussed from the 4 to the 7 of July during the Lebanese week on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This event is organised as part of the RESUME project (RESUME is a European Union Project financed by the Erasmus+ Capacity Building programme).
The inauguration of the Lebanese week will be held on the 4 July at the Rectorate of the Lebanese University, together with the 2nd partners meeting of the RESUME project.
The works will continue at 2pm on the 5 and 6 July 2017 at Campus Hadath with the 4th Thematic Conference on « Innovation & entrepreneurship ». The goal of this conference is to give the HEIs the necessary skills and to start a dialogue among the different stakeholders (HEIs, companies and political bodies) on the common challenge of increasing the employability of young graduates. During the conference, the project partners will present their best practices linked to the topic of innovation. Local and regional experts from the socio-economic environment will also present their experiences on this topic. The event is open to the public.
The Lebanese week on Innovation and Entrepreneurship will continue on the 7 of July at USEK with a field visit of the training grounds meant exclusively for the RESUME project partners. This visit aims to strengthen the skills of the career centre staff in order to promote the professional insertion of young graduates.
For further information and to download the programme of the three events you can visit the website of the RESUME project : www.resumeproject.eu or contact :
For the events held on the 4,5,6 of July:
Silvia Marchionne s.marchionne@uni-med.net mob. 0039 349 2517729
Véronique Kazpard kveronique@ul.edu.lb mob. 00 961 76 072 964
Selim Mekdessi selimekdessi@hotmail.com mob. 00961 3494860
For the event held on the 7 of July:
Silvia Marchionne s.marchionne@uni-med.net mob. 0039 349 2517729
Khalil Abboud khalilabboud@usek.edu.lb mob. 00961 71107110
About RESUME
The RESUME project aims at 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.
The RESUME project will address four priority actions established by the EC, the OECD and ETF:
- Establishing inter-ministerial commissions for entrepreneurial learning
- Establishing a platform for the identification and exchange of good practices
- Strengthening co-operation among HEIs and promoting links with business to foster entrepreneurship.
- Establishing an accredited Southern Mediterranean entrepreneurship network paying particular attention to gender issues.
Partners
- UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union, Italy (coordinator)
- UniME, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
- AMU, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
- UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
- AlmaLaurea, Consorzio Interuniversitario Almalaurea, Italy
- VdM, Ville de Marseille, France
- IAV, Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco
- UM5R, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Morocco
- Us, Université de Sousse, Tunisia
- USf, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
- UL, Université Libanaise, Lebanon
- USEK, Université de Saint Esprit- Kaslik, Lebanon
- AFEM, Association de Femmes Chefs d’entreprise, Morocco
- MESFCRS, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Formation des Cadres, Morocco
- MESRS, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique Tunisien, Tunisia
- DGHE, Directorate General Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon
- ASCAME, Association of the Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce, Spain (associated partner)
Twitter channel
@ResumeProjectEU
Website
www.resumeproject.eu
Projet cofinancé par le programme Erasmus+ de l’Union européenne. Le soutien apporté par la Commission européenne à la production de la présente publication ne vaut en rien approbation de son contenu, qui reflète uniquement le point de vue des auteurs ; la Commission ne peut être tenue responsable d’une quelconque utilisation qui serait faite des informations contenues dans la présente publication.
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