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The Euro-Arab Foundation organises a conference in Melilla on interreligious dialogue and hate crime prevention

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Post date 14 de March de 2024
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Participatory approaches to the protection of places of worship is the title given to the forum hosted by the Government Delegation in Melilla on Thursday, organised by the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies in the framework of the PARTES project funded by the European Commission.

The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, opened the event by thanking Melilla for having been chosen as the venue for this forum and pointing out the importance of working for the prevention of hate crimes, inter-religious dialogue, tolerance and respect.

“We are witnessing the emergence of messages of polarisation and tension, and I think it is vital to work to prevent hate crimes, which is something that we must do together institutions and entities while focusing on this issue so that society is aware of this problem and tools are put in place to put an end to it”, Moh indicated.

La Delegada del Gobierno, Sabrina Moh, ha inaugurado la jornada agradeciendo la elección de Melilla para este foro

On his part, the Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Antonio Sánchez Ortega, recalled that the aim of the organisation he represents is to create bridges of collaboration, knowledge and research. He therefore recognised that Melilla is a “privileged” place, as it is an “estuary of civilisations and cultures which perfectly demonstrates this coexistence and this model of participation”.

Sánchez stressed that the results of these conference “will feed into the PARTES project and it will serve as a model for transfer to civil society”.

The working session was also attended by the representative of the European Commission’s funding programme, Tamara Muñoz, representatives of the State Security Forces and Corps, and members of the city’s religious communities, among other civil society organisations.

Opening of the participatory workshop, held at the UGR, by César Solano, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (UGR), Tamara Muñoz, Programme Officer at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, and José Luis Salido, researcher at the Euro-Arab Foundation and coordinator of the conference.

El investigador de la Euroárabe y organizador de las Jornadas de PARTES en Melilla, José Luis Salido, impartiendo el taller participativo, celebrado en el Campus de Melilla de la Universidad de Granada. — Euro-Arab Foundation’s researcher and coordinator of the PARTES conference in Melilla, José Luis Salido, giving the participatory workshop, held at the UGR.

PARTES project

The European PARTES project started on 31 March 2023 and is scheduled to end in April 2025. It proposes to develop, through an empirical, inclusive and participatory methodology, a comprehensive prevention model for the protection of places of worship (synagogues, mosques, and churches) in the European Union, thus also preventing hate crimes against religious communities.

The Euro-Arab Foundation leads the “Threats and Responses Overview” Work Package which coordinates the research to establish an overview of attacks on religious communities, hate crimes against them, and existing protection measures. It identifies also good practices for cooperation between religious institutions and public authorities, for the protection of places of worship. The Euro-Arab was also in charge of organising the participatory workshop in Melilla, held on Wednesday at the UGR, and the inter-religious forum on Thursday at the headquarters of the Government Delegation in Melilla.

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#8M24 – Group exhibition “JOURNEY TO MATRIA”.

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Post date 8 de March de 2024
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Exposición colectiva 'Viaje a Matria' con motivo del la conmemoración del 8M 2024

For the second consecutive year, on International Women’s Day, the Euro-Arab Foundation brings back to the Euro-Arab Foundation the exhibition JOURNEY TO MATRIA, a collective exhibition of 14 artists convened for this commemoration of the vindication of equal rights, values and culture of the feminine.

Wednesday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m., in the courtyard of the Euro-Arab Foundation.

This exhibition, organised by the Euro-Arab Foundation and the Research Group ‘HUM 211: The medium as a dynamic factor in the didactic practice of Art, is curated by Juan García Villar, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Granada, and presents a group exhibition of 14 authors who reflect on the need for real equality between women and men in our societies.

With a great diversity of languages, techniques and supports, VIAJE A MATRIA presents different works by 14 artists using pictorial, sculptural, digital, graphic, photographic and video-creation techniques.

The exhibition can be visited at the Euro-Arab Foundation from March 6th to April 5th, from Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 2pm and from 5pm to 8pm; Friday mornings only and closed on weekends and public holidays.

The artists of VIAJE A MATRIA are:

Javier Álamo, Concha Arenas, Belén Esturla, Juan Ramón Fernández Puñal, Helia García Arenas, Miguel García Cobo, Miguel Hurtado, Javier Mena, Eva Pérez Cano, Rosa María Ponce, David Sánchez, Alicia Soriano, Antonio Travé and Juan García Villar.

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News Projects

Euro-Arab Foundation participates in a new project to develop VR skills of vocational training students in Albania

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Post date 19 de February de 2024
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The kick-off meeting of VR Digivet, a European project whose main objectives are to improve the quality and responsiveness of Vocational Education and Training (VET) to economic and social developments, in order to increase the relevance of skills supply for the labor market, while empowering VET providers to strengthen cooperation between private and public stakeholders, took place in Tirana (Albania) on Thursday, February 15 and Friday, February 16.

The kick-off meeting of VR Digivet, a European project whose main objectives are to improve the quality and responsiveness of Vocational Education and Training (VET) to economic and social developments, in order to increase the relevance of skills supply for the labor market, while empowering VET providers to strengthen cooperation between private and public stakeholders, took place in Tirana (Albania) on Thursday, February 15 and Friday, February 16.

The project has been developed based on the needs expressed by the Albanian government’s policy document, in particular the NESS 2019-2022, and the recommendations of the European Training Foundation in the framework of the Turin process, with the coordination of the Agenfor International Foundation (Italy) and a consortium including the Euro-Arab Foundation (Spain), HfÖV (Germany), NAES (Albania), Fan S.Noli (Albania), and Service Factory Solutions (Albania).

Representatives from all of them have participated in the first project meeting in Tirana, which was attended by the Albanian Government, and where all technical procedures were addressed and the next steps were discussed. VR Digivet representatives also made a study visit to an IT VET center in Gjergji Canco to check the VET center model in which the project will be developed.

The project’s success hinges on active involvement from key stakeholders in developing and overseeing Albania’s VET sector. This collaborative effort includes the Albanian government, VET providers, private sector representatives, experts, and VET students. By engaging in co-designing specific technical solutions, this approach ensures strong local ownership, enhancing its long-term sustainability.

To achieve this goal, a public Albanian VR Metaverse for VET will be designed, implemented, and managed by the National VET Authority. Here, national, European, and international partners, along with their trained personnel, will create and deliver immersive training programs, transforming traditional VET roles in the digital realm.

VR Digivet partners' meeting in Albania — VR Digivet partners’ meeting in Albania

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The second edition of the Diploma in Communication for Development is inaugurated in Riyadh

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Post date 26 de January de 2024
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The third training course offered by the Euro-Arab Foundation in Saudi Arabia was inaugurated this morning in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), the Diploma in Communication for Development, a training plan developed in collaboration with its Saudi partner, the Princess Alanood Foundation.

With the ‘Communication for Development’ course, the Euro-Arab Foundation, together with its Saudi partner, the Princess Alanood Foundation, offers four Euro-Arab specialisation diplomas for students from the Gulf countries.

The Euro-Arab Diploma in ‘Management of Non-Profit Organisations’ was the first training course that took place ten years ago. It was followed by the Diploma in ‘Endowment Management (Waqf)’, which will be in its fifth edition this year, and the Diploma in ‘Social and Solidarity Economy’, inaugurated last year.

*Dr. Youssef Al-Huzaim, Secretary General of the Saudi Princess Alanood Foundation, welcoming the Diploma in Communication for Development.*

The inauguration, held at the headquarters of the Princess Alanood Foundation in Riyadh, has been carried out by the Secretary General of this Foundation, Yousef Alhuzaim, and the Director of Cooperation of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Hassan Laaguir.

***The Director of Cooperation and Research of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Hassan Laaguir, during his speech at the headquarters of the Alanood Foundation.***

Communication for Development

The Diploma, given to a total of 23 students and coordinated by the Spanish journalist Javier Diaz Muriana, is a training course that provides added value for the work of professionals in the Third Sector in the countries of the Gulf area, which includes non-profit organisations, social and solidarity economy entities and public bodies that deal with social issues.

Programa del Diploma de Comunicación para el Desarrollo — *Programme of the Diploma in Communication for Development*

Diploma in Communication for Development is offered in six modules from 26 January to 15 June, five of which are taught in Riyadh and the sixth and final module is held in Granada, where the Diploma internships will take place and the students will present their final project.

The main objective of this training, given by Spanish and Saudi journalism and communication professionals, is to enhance the knowledge and professional skills of managers and communication managers working in the Third Sector. Through professional training, this diploma combines face-to-face and virtual training.

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The Euro-Arab Foundation celebrates Yennayer 2974, the Amazigh New Year

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Post date 18 de January de 2024
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El Rif de principios del XX visto por Emilio Blanco Izaga

The Euro-Arab Foundation, through its International Chair of Amazigh Culture, is organising a programme of activities this coming Thursday, January 18, to commemorate Yennayer, the Amazigh New Year, which will include a workshop on Amazigh pottery decoration, a photographic exhibition by the Africanist Emilio Blanco Izaga and a gastronomic tasting.

YENNAYER 2974 / 2024 AMAZIGH NEW YEAR

The Yennayer is an ancestral and traditional Amazigh festival celebrated in a spirit of joy and conviviality in regions of North Africa, in the Canary Islands and in sub-Saharan countries that remain attached to this centuries-old tradition of the Amazigh people.

Yennayer is the celebration of the Amazigh New Year, the first day of the year in the agrarian calendar used since ancient times by the Amazigh people, and corresponds to the victory of Sheshonq I over Pharaoh Ramses III and his enthronement as Pharaoh of Egypt. He is the founder of the XXII dynasty, which reigned in Egypt until 715 BC.

The word Yennayer is composed of ‘yen’, meaning ‘first’, and ‘yesterday’ (or ayyur), meaning ‘month’. It corresponds to the first day of the agrarian calendar used by the Amazigh for centuries, which in turn corresponds to the Julian calendar adopted in North Africa in ancient Rome and thirteen days out of step with the Gregorian calendar. This holiday is celebrated on 12 January each year and corresponds to the first day of January in the Julian calendar. According to the Amazigh calendar, this year 2024 corresponds to the Amazigh year 2974.

In addition to its traditional and popular character, this festival also has a vindictive component on the part of the Amazigh people, who are calling for the recovery of the traditional festivities of their culture so that they are not lost. In this sense, Yennayer has been established as a public holiday in Algeria and Morocco, from 2018 and 2024 respectively.

YENNAYER 2974 PROGRAMME AT THE EURO-ARABIAN

17:30h. Workshop on ‘Amazigh Rifeña Ceramic Decoration’.

Introductory workshop on decoration with some reddish and white earthenware pottery pieces with traditional Amazigh symbols and natural dyes. Pottery is an essential element in the daily life of the Amazigh people.
19:00 h. Inauguration of the exhibition: ‘The Rif at the beginning of the 20th century as seen by Emilio Blanco Izaga’.

Exhibition of photographs by Emilio Blanco Izaga taken during his stay in the Rif between 1927 and 1945, during his time as auditor of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco.

19:30 h. Gastronomic tasting of Amazigh cuisine

The Yennayer meal is a central component of the celebration. Those attending this celebration, organised by Euro-Arab, will be able to taste typical Amazigh products such as: tea, laban, amlou, seasonal dried fruits, thighwawin and typical sweets. There is a great symbolic charge in the preparation of the Yennayer menu, the way it is presented and even the way it is consumed, all of which is consigned to end hunger, augur a good year, have good harvests, bless change and fervently welcome the invisible forces in which the Amazigh culture believed.

EXHIBITION

The Rif at the beginning of the 20th century as seen by Emilio Blanco Izaga
From 18 January to 23 February, 2024.

Visiting hours. Monday to Thursday from 9h. to 14h. and from 17h. to 20h. Friday mornings only. Weekends and public holidays, closed

The exhibition presented by the Euro-Arab Foundation consists of photographs from the beginning of the 20th century by Emilio Blanco Izaga, which he took during his stay in the Rif between 1927 and 1945, while working as an auditor for the Protectorate. The images, taken in black and white and at the standard size of the period, have been edited with the intention of recovering the original colour of their details and expressly enlarged for better viewing.

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Language of poetry and the arts to celebrate World Arabic Language Day

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Post date 18 de December de 2023
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On the occasion of World Arabic Language Day, Euro-Arabic and the University of Granada present a programme of activities from 16 November to 19 December, with workshops, conferences, a film forum and a video competition under the slogan ‘Language of poetry and the arts’.

18 December, World Arabic Language Day.

On 18 December 1973 the UN General Assembly of the United Nations declared the Arabic language as an official language of the UN. In commemoration of this designation, every 18 December is World Arabic Language Day, declared by UNESCO in 2012, with the aim of recognising the enormous contribution of the Arabic language to universal culture and celebrating linguistic diversity.

The Arabic language is a pillar of humanity’s cultural diversity. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, used daily by more than 400 million people. Since 2012, World Arabic Language Day has been celebrated every year on 18 December. The date coincides with the day in 1973 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted Arabic as the sixth official language of the United Nations.

UNESCO is calling to celebrate not only a language, but also a culture and, more broadly, to underline the extent to which we need this diversity of views on the world, as they constitute an invaluable wealth and the fundamental condition for lasting peace.

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María Inmaculada Ramos, new executive secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation

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Post date 22 de September de 2023
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The Board of Trustees of the Euro-Arab Foundation has appointed María Inmaculada Ramos Tapia, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Granada, as the new Executive Secretary of this institution.

Born in Quart de Poblet (Valencia), María Inmaculada Ramos Tapia has held the positions of Vice-Dean for Research and International Relations at the Faculty of Law (2000-2003); Director of the International Relations and Projects Secretariat (2003-2007) and Deputy Secretary General of the University of Granada (2015-2019). In other areas of management, she has been Director General of Universities of the Government of Andalusia (2019-2020).

Graduated in Law with an extraordinary award from the University of Granada, she obtained a grant for University Teacher Training (FPU) to carry out her doctoral thesis, which she completed in 1998 with an extraordinary doctoral award. After a two-year postdoctoral stay at the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (1998-2000), she returned to the University of Granada as an assistant lecturer, obtaining the position of Full Professor in 2003.

An extensive teaching and research career

As a lecturer, she has taught numerous undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral courses at the University of Granada and as a guest lecturer at other Spanish and foreign universities, such as the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina or the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She has participated in various teaching innovation projects and has published Manuals and Lessons in Criminal Law.

As a researcher, she has participated in numerous regional, national, and European research projects. She is currently a member of the National R&D Plan project “Analysis of legislative proposals to combat modern slavery and due diligence obligations of companies in Spain (APROES)” (2023-2026). She has been the principal investigator of the National R&D&I Plan project “Grey areas of female slavery: domestic service, prostitution, forced marriages and child labour” (2015-2018).

Her lines of research focus on European Union Criminal Law, crimes against sexual freedom, and labour crimes.

She has carried out research stays in Germany (Universities of Bayreuth and Munich and Max-Planck-Institute in Freiburg), Ireland (University College Dublin), and the United Kingdom (Queen’s University Belfast). She is a member of the national association Grupo de Estudios de Política Criminal and the Ibero-American Research Network on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and Human Rights .

Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies

The Euro-Arab Foundation is governed by a joint board of trustees made up of the Ministry of Universities, the Government of Andalusia, and the University of Granada. The presidency of the Board of Trustees is held by the head of the Secretariat of Universities of the Ministry of Universities.

Through its activities, the Euro-Arab Foundation dedicates all its efforts to the promotion of Euro-Arab cooperation, encouraging academic, social, and cultural activities, as well as the dissemination of new trends and tendencies in the sciences and humanities. Its work in the development of research and transfer programmes and activities aimed at promoting democratic rights and values, peaceful coexistence, and social cohesion by highlighting the richness of diversity, equality, processes of social inclusion and integration, and the defence of the rights of minorities and vulnerable groups.

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News Projects

FUNDEAMAL, a web portal on employability in Arab countries

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Post date 16 de June de 2016
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FUNDEAMAL is a project of the Euro-Arab Foundation that offers, through a web portal, information on employability and research stays and scholarships in Arab countries.

This project was born under the sponsorship of the Andalusian Government and the European Social Fund.

http://fundeamal.org

The possibilities for work, study, research or investment are expanding and the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies helps to find new opportunities in eleven of the countries of the Arab world: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait.

The Andalusian Regional Government, through the Andalusian Employment Service and the European Social Fund, has sponsored this project whose one of its results has been the creation of the web portal ‘Fundeamal’

INFORMATION FROM CANAL SUR TELEVISION·RTVA on the presention of FUNDEAMAL on June 7th (Spanish).

Inmaculada Marrero, Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation, highlighted in the presentation of Fundeamal that “this project, which has a vocation to be perpetuated in time, is based on the experience that the Euro-Arab Foundation has in the search, development and execution of projects with countries of the Arab world”.

Sandra García, delegate of the Andalusian Government in Granada, and the Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies, Inmaculada Marrero, presented this “open access website for the population”.

The Delegate of the Andalusian Regional Government, stated that Fundeamal is “an effective and useful project that aims to build bridges based on employment and knowledge”.

In the presentation of the project, the Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Inmaculada Marrero, stated that the objectives are “to facilitate the search for information to develop projects in Granada, to mediate in the search for job offers in the countries where the portal is focused and, finally, to pay attention to the employability in Granada of those who come from the research”.

The web presents useful information of eleven countries in the Arab world, three in the Maghreb and three in the Middle East, as well as different alternatives helping people who are interested in the field of employability, research stays and scholarships.

Regarding the functioning of ‘Fundeamal’: firstly, sit provides general but essential information on the six countries and then, once the destionation country is chosen, three options are presented: “job search”, “students and researchers” and “economic and business investment”.

A moment of the presentation of Fundeamal website with the Delegate of the Andalusian Government, the Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation and the team that has developed the project.

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