Suchergebnisse

The Mediterranean region has not been very interesting for a long time not only for Lithuania, but also for others Middle and East Europe countries. In the era of globalization, while EU is constantly building new connections with international organizations (UN, NATO, EC, WTO) and local neighboring regions, the role of strategic Mediterranean has recently became a very important topic. At a conference in Barcelona on November 27 – 28, 1995 a new revival between the Mediterranean and the EU was attempted. However, the desired results were not reached. As a result of this failure in 2004 a new European neighborhood policy was started. This step was very important since it opened a new stage of regional collaborations. All Mediterranean countries have always tried and are still trying to get into EKP and to use integration advantages. At the same time, the EU started to apply not only traditional political diplomacy and international marketing actions, but also began to build new initiatives. One of those new initiatives -- "Collaboration in education and higher education" -- is the subject of the analysis of this masters degree. The main point of this work is to reveal the collaboration between the EU and the Mediterranean region, as well as to analyze the influence of the EU on the Mediterranean region's education and explore the efficiency of the programs and projects related to higher education. For this research we used literature analysis, halfway structure interviews, and comparison methods. First we study the process of collaboration between the EU and the Mediterranean region and we discuss the importance of the Barcelona conference and its influence for multi-regional communication and the EU neighborhood policy. Second, we analyze the EU policy of education and its development in the Mediterranean region, highlighting the research of two high-schools programs related to the UN Erasmus Mundus and Tempus programs. We also discuss the new initiatives of education in the Mediterranean region. By performing this research we find that an uplifted hypothesis is not fully predictable: while strong collaboration groundshave been built in the area of education and programs, and the projects strongly affect the growing up quality of higher education in the Mediterranean region, the spheres of education and higher education always collide with various difficulties. The solution is not simple not only for the third world Mediterranean countries, but also for the EU. By assessing the EU and the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in education, we find that a sustainable framework for cooperation in education has been created. The development and further evolution depends on the activity of the parties, their objectives and speed of implementation of new initiatives such as the Euro-Mediterranean University in the establishment and success.

The Mediterranean region has not been very interesting for a long time not only for Lithuania, but also for others Middle and East Europe countries. In the era of globalization, while EU is constantly building new connections with international organizations (UN, NATO, EC, WTO) and local neighboring regions, the role of strategic Mediterranean has recently became a very important topic. At a conference in Barcelona on November 27 – 28, 1995 a new revival between the Mediterranean and the EU was attempted. However, the desired results were not reached. As a result of this failure in 2004 a new European neighborhood policy was started. This step was very important since it opened a new stage of regional collaborations. All Mediterranean countries have always tried and are still trying to get into EKP and to use integration advantages. At the same time, the EU started to apply not only traditional political diplomacy and international marketing actions, but also began to build new initiatives. One of those new initiatives -- "Collaboration in education and higher education" -- is the subject of the analysis of this masters degree. The main point of this work is to reveal the collaboration between the EU and the Mediterranean region, as well as to analyze the influence of the EU on the Mediterranean region's education and explore the efficiency of the programs and projects related to higher education. For this research we used literature analysis, halfway structure interviews, and comparison methods. First we study the process of collaboration between the EU and the Mediterranean region and we discuss the importance of the Barcelona conference and its influence for multi-regional communication and the EU neighborhood policy. Second, we analyze the EU policy of education and its development in the Mediterranean region, highlighting the research of two high-schools programs related to the UN Erasmus Mundus and Tempus programs. We also discuss the new initiatives of education in the Mediterranean region. By performing this research we find that an uplifted hypothesis is not fully predictable: while strong collaboration groundshave been built in the area of education and programs, and the projects strongly affect the growing up quality of higher education in the Mediterranean region, the spheres of education and higher education always collide with various difficulties. The solution is not simple not only for the third world Mediterranean countries, but also for the EU. By assessing the EU and the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in education, we find that a sustainable framework for cooperation in education has been created. The development and further evolution depends on the activity of the parties, their objectives and speed of implementation of new initiatives such as the Euro-Mediterranean University in the establishment and success.