International Cooperation Programmes
According to the Lisbon strategy, emphasizing the creation of a more competitive and dynamic knowledge-based society, international mobility and universities internationalisation may represent a strategic tool for a social, cultural and economic development of a country. They can be considered as a challenge and an opportunity for the involved Higher Institutions to enlarge and enrich their range of the offered courses.
The University of Catania participates in international programmes at EU level, funded and managed by several institutions and authorities such as the EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) and the EuropeAid (DG Development and Cooperation). Moreover, the University of Catania is also involved in international programmes promoted by Italian institutions, such as the MAE (Ministry for Foreign Affairs) and, jointly, the MIUR and the CRUI (respectively the Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Conference of Italian University Rectors). These programmes involve an increasing number of professors, researchers and students every year.
Contacts:
Education, Audiovisual &Culture Executive Agency – EACEA (Website)
The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is responsible for the management of funding opportunities offered by specific EU's programmes in the fields of education, culture and audiovisual.
EACEA operates under supervision from three Directorates-General of the European Commission:
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Education and Culture (DG EAC)
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Communication (DG COMM)
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EuropeAid Development and Cooperation (DG DEVCO)
DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid (Website)
Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid is a new European Commission’s Directorate–General (DG) responsible for designing EU development policies and delivering aid through programmes and projects across the world.
It incorporates the former Development and EuropeAid DGs. Having one DG will simplify communication in the development field by acting as a "one stop shop" – providing a single contact point for stakeholders inside and outside the EU to deal with.
Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid reinforces the ability of the EU to design state-of-the-art development policy for all developing countries, and enhances policy coherence for development while further improving implementation and delivery mechanisms. It also defines the future development policy drawing from the objectives of the EU's Green Paper on development policy and contributes to global challenges ahead.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - MAE (Website)
The Directorate General for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promotes and funds international cooperation between national scientific and technological research institutions, both public and private, and similar institutions in other European and extra-European countries through the negotiation of Executive Programmes.
Ministry of Education, University and Research (Website) & Italian Universities Rectors Conference (Website) – MIUR CRUI
The Ministry of Education, University and Research, in collaboration with the Italian Universities Rectors Conference, promotes and funds international cooperation between Italian Higher Education Institutions and similar European and extra-European institutions through bilateral programmes (France, Great Britain, Spain, Germany) and multilateral cooperation programmes with several countries indicated in annual call for proposals.
