MEDYRE. EuroMed Young Researchers Network

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Vision

Young Researchers are key to the future of the Mediterranean. Their professional success must be understood as a indicator of positive progress in developing the incipient EuroMed Higher Education Area, itself an essential step in the EuroMed process, and advancing towards an area of EuroMed Area of Higher Education.

Young researchers show the greatest dynamism and potential at all levels in Academia. Yet they also are the ones facing the greatest difficulties to be promoted and get appropriate working conditions.

Though overcoming some of these challenges requires structural transformations both within academia and society, there is a window of opportunity to lessen some of the more immediate difficulties by creating physical and virtual meeting spaces where researchers across the Mediterranean can jointly develop new initiatives. These are spaces of intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue aimed at enhancing young researchers’ mobility and creativity to critically examine and further develop the Barcelona Process.

Objectives

MEDYRE aims to promote scientific exchanges between Young Researchers with a focus on the Mediterranean, enhance their mobility and contribute to their professional promotion at the local and regional levels.

In order to achieve these objectives, MEDYRE leads a programme of activities sustained by the active participation of young researchers.

Background

The need to create MEDYRE was first expressed at the First Meeting of Young Researchers Around the Mediterranean, held in Tarragona on May 2007. Following the participants’ desire to develop fluid and lasting contacts, the UNESCO Chair organized the 2^nd Meeting in Oran on June 2009 where the network was officially presented.

On October 2009, took place in Beirut, at the Université Saint Joseph in the framework of the VI Euro-Mediterranean Universities Forum, the first follow-up meeting of MEDYRE. Some 20 Young Researchers coming from various zones of EuroMed area and a the most involved in the project met to discuss the main issues of MEDYRE’s structure and the landscape of the Research. At the meeting, the activities to be implemented on 2010 were presented and some workgroup were set.