Barcelona, 14 September 2023. Within the framework of the 2nd Discussion board of European College Alliances, Crue’s President Eva Alcón and the President of Crue-Internationalisation and Cooperation and rector of UNED, Ricardo Mairal, met with representatives of France Universités and the Spanish Ministry of Universities to hunt formulation to assist increase the participation of each college techniques within the European Universities Initiative. The intention is to extend the variety of consortia wherein Spanish and French universities collectively take part, which is presently greater than 30, out of a complete of fifty European college alliances.
The delegation of France Universités was led by its President and Rector of the College of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Guillaume Gellé, accompanied by the President of its European and Worldwide Relations Fee and Rector of the College of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Emmanuelle Garnier, and by the affiliation’s delegate in Brussels, Carle Bonafous. Throughout this primary assembly, they mentioned the promotion of institutional collaboration by way of the signing of a memorandum of understanding and pressured the significance of creating and strengthening the European dimension of college communities, involving them much more in Europe by way of European values and the European lifestyle. The chance to organise a bilateral assembly between the standing committees or administration groups of the 2 associations to debate potential traces of collaboration in college missions (instructing, analysis, and information switch) and in all issues associated to educational freedom was additionally mentioned.
Subsequently, the Secretary Basic of the Spanish Ministry of Universities, José Manuel Pingarrón, and the Deputy Director of Worldwide Relations and Collegiate Our bodies of this Division, Margarita de Lezcano-Mújica, joined the assembly. The three events exchanged views on the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed by Spain and France on 19 January in Barcelona, and mentioned articles 18 and 19 of the settlement, on cooperation in increased training, analysis, and innovation. On this regard, they shared methods wherein Crue and France Universités might actively help the implementation of the bilateral treaty.
It ought to be recalled that the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation foresees, amongst different points, the energetic promotion of French and Spanish participation within the European Universities Initiative and help for its deployment. This doc additionally displays the curiosity of each nations in selling the mobility of researchers and inside the Horizon Europe framework programme or by way of the event of bilateral programmes.
