This summer two years passed since the inauguration of the Euro-Mediterranean University - EMUNI in Portorož, Slovenia. It was celebrated with a successful conference Research Souk, taking place in Alexandria and involving more than 2000 students, researches, professors and other experts from the Euro-Mediterranean. The first academic year, in which the University began to be fully operational and formally registered, has been very successful, in terms of cooperation with our members, for our students and for the development of our institution. In the academic year 2009/2010 EMUNI implemented EMUNI Master Study Programmes, started to develop new Master Study Programmes, conducted several professional school and summer school courses, doctoral seminars, conferences and performed several other activities, described in more detail below:

EMUNI Master Study Programmes (EMUNI label) involved the implementation of 3 programmes:

• Environment (in cooperation with University of Nova Gorica as the responsible institution);
• Migration and Intercultural Relations (in cooperation with University of Nova Gorica as the responsible institution);
• Euro-Mediterranean MA in Culture and Tourism (in cooperation with University of Bari, Italy as the responsible institution).

EMUNI label master study programmes are being attended by 27 students from Albania, Algeria,

BIH, Croatia, Egypt, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. Professors are coming from the following countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal,Slovenia, Spain and Tunisia.

Development of new Master Study Programmes

EMUNI started to develop its own Master programmes, mainly in relation to the Union for the Mediterranean priority areas and other topics, significant for the Euro-Mediterranean region. The programmes will be carried out at EMUNI and at EMUNI partner universities and will base on international comparability regarding credits, courses and awarded titles.

EMUNI Professional School was delivered in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean Studies and in the frame of Public Management and Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean. It encompassed 3 professional school courses:   

• Euro-Mediterranean International Relations, implemented by 6 lecturers from 5 different countries and attended by 21 participants coming from: Albania, Algeria, BIH, Croatia, Egypt,Italy, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
• Public Management and Sustainable Development and
• Mediterranean Geopolitics, Economy and Major Projects, implemented by 5 lecturers from  Morocco, France and Slovenia.

2nd EMUNI DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINARS (EMUNI DocSem 2010) were implemented at EMUNI:

• Intercultural Dialogue in Higher Education/Research in the Euro-Mediterranean, attended by 11 students from Greece, France, Italy, Morocco, Slovenia, Tunisia, and Turkey.
• Leadership for Cultural Diversity, attended by 8 students from Algeria, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Slovenia.

3^rd Euro-Mediterranean Summer Semester 2010 (EMUNI Summer 2010) takes place between  June - September 2010  and involves 5 courses (selected by a Call) in Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal, and Tunisia.