UNESCO CHAIR 651

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A common political will: Share the ambition to give the Mediterranean basin a social and economic place of choice in a newfound peace and in respect for the future through an exemplary practice of the rules of sustainable development.

While political leaders are debating the future of collaboration and unions between Mediterranean countries and European countries, the RMEI wants to be an actor for sustainable development in the Mediterranean and innovation.
 
The RMEI allows its students to have a good image of training and research in the Mediterranean countries, which is an important asset for the Mediterranean in the globalization of the economy. It situates its action within the framework of innovation and territoriality, areas which were not major axes of training for engineers. It wants to train "engineers/managers/architects-citizens" open to the major challenges of our societies.
 
This promotion of the Mediterranean in the minds of students will reduce their desire for expatriation and therefore slow the loss of young talent.
 
The RMEI also offers the local authorities concerned a pool of high-level academic researchers who can get involved in the identification, monitoring and evaluation of research and innovation policies in the Mediterranean basin. It wants to be a force of proposal and action. It facilitates meetings between researchers, which makes it possible to respond as quickly and efficiently as possible to international calls for tender (Med, Neighbourhood, Tempus programs, etc.).
 
The RMEI acts as an interface between the business world and the technical colleges and universities. It must facilitate and intensify the relationship between Universities - Grandes Ecoles - Research Laboratories - Mediterranean Companies in the service of innovation but also the recruitment of competent engineers and scientists, challenges for large industrial groups but also for SMEs/VSEs in the Mediterranean.
 
The RMEI is open to other regions of the world through its close links with many laboratories located in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian, American, … and … European universities.
 
The RMEI is a network of conviviality where universities from countries rub shoulders which, unfortunately, have little dialogue with each other. On a very modest scale, it contributes to the development of cultural tolerance.
 
The RMEI is committed to disseminating the results of its action to major international organizations (United Nations decade, UNESCO, UfM, etc.), at conferences related to sustainable development, territoriality, economic activities and the Mediterranean .
 
The RMEI is also aware of the major effort to disseminate its action locally in the suburbs, to schoolchildren and to any local committee concerned with societal approaches to sustainable development.
 
This policy is translated through the various RMEI working groups.
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The Mediterranean Network of Engineering Schools was created in June 1997 on the initiative of the Marseille Engineering School Group (ESIM), an establishment of the Marseille-Provence CCI.
 
After its first general assembly in 1997 in Marseilles, the RMEI held its annual meeting successively in Barcelona (1998), Tunis (1999), Istanbul (2000), Rabat (2001), Madrid (2002), Patras (2003), Genoa (2004), Algiers (2005), Izmir (2006), Marseille (2007), Hammamet (2008), Rome (2009), Thessaloniki (2010), Rabat (2011) and Venice-Padua (2012).
 
Since 2001, the RMEI has become the component bringing together the engineering schools and technological universities of the Community of Mediterranean Universities (CUM), an official body of UNESCO.
 
In 2007, the RMEI set up a legal structure (association under French law of the 1901 type) which reinforces its autonomy and its possibilities of collaboration within partnerships between its active members as well as with the associated members, local authorities local and the business world.
 
The RMEI is managed by an office of 7 members and administered by a board of directors composed of ten members.
 
During the Michelangelo workshops in April 2012, the creation of the GAMe structure was made official, an acronym for "Giovani Ambasciatori Mediterranei". This structure is managed entirely by the students and has correspondents in the majority of the countries concerned by the RMEI.
 
During its meeting in May 2013, the board accepted the principle of welcoming within the RMEI, a new college corresponding to the RMEM, Mediterranean Network of Management Schools. At the beginning of 2014, the RMEI was made up of 98 members from 16 Mediterranean countries, 22 associate members, some of whom were outside the Mediterranean area (Brazil, Black Sea, Russia) and from the GAMe structure.
Since its creation, the RMEI has been supported by the CCIMP (Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence), the City of Marseille, the General Council of Bouches du Rhône and the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It also receives support from UNESCO (Chair 651 Innovation and Sustainable Development). Since 2010, the RMEI has received significant support from the Municipality of Civitavecchia, where GAMe's headquarters are located.
 
Since its creation, the RMEI has wanted to promote the specific assets of the Mediterranean, focusing on increased efficiency, through the networking of Grandes Ecoles, Universities and other partners around the Mediterranean:


- a historical, multicultural Mediterranean identity, around a sea vector of exchanges and economic activities, cradle of great civilizations and great changes (renaissance, etc.);

- a current crossroads of cultures and exchanges, source of creativity;

- a unique position as an interface between Europe, Africa and the East.

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Any candidate establishment, which wishes to become a member of the network as a legal personality or as an associate member, must send a written request to the President of the RMEI, accompanied by an application file allowing the establishment's contribution to be identified. the network and the legitimacy of its candidacy.

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