Trainings and summer schools: an agreement with Palestinian Universities

Academic Memorandum of Understanding was signed 10th of February, between  Italian Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of 4 Italian and 7 Palestinian Universities. Training for Palestinian professors and students, summer schools and trainings in communication are some of the activities scheduled in the memorandum set up by the University Cooperation Coordination Team of the Italian Cooperation. 

The agreement aims at promoting new university cooperation programs between the Palestinian and the Italian Academic World, based on new strategies. It has been in fact adopted an innovative strategic approach which involves a 'network' action between Italian and Palestinian Universities.
It is primarily aimed at ensuring a greater effectiveness and capillarity of the intervention. It is foreseen an initial phase focused on the deepening of the priorities for development in education, scientific research and technology transfer and then the parties will start specific university cooperation programs having an high scientific profile.
Palestinian Universities who attended the event were: Bethlehem, Al-Quds University, Al Najah, Hebron, Bir Zeit, envoy of Arab American University of Jenin, and Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron.Such document will put together both strategic lines of the University Cooperation and proposals for future university cooperation programmes.