February 23rd 2019

The University of Alicante, through the International Project Management Office (OGPI) and the Department of Prehistory, Archeology, Ancient History, Greek Philology and Latin Philology participates in the CUDIMHA project -Curriculum Development: An Innovative Master in History and Archeology , financed by the European Union under Erasmus + Program. This project will address in the next three years the design of a master's degree related to the dissemination and management of historical and archaeological heritage in Tunisia. This project involves different Tunisian universities (Cartago, SFAX, Gabès and Monastir) in which the master will be implemented during the academic year 2020/2021, as well as universities and European institutions (University of Molisse, International University of Rome, FORMIT-Italy -, Masaryk University -Czech Republic- and University of Alicante -Spain-). This international cooperation project arises from the interest and need of Tunisia to train professionals capable of valuing and spreading the rich heritage resources that the country has.

The University of Alicante will participate in different tasks, among which the preliminary analysis of the potential offered by the historical and archaeological heritage of Tunisia, as well as its use as a fundamental basis for the development of the contents of the future master's degree. For this work is particularly important experience accumulated by the University of Alicante through the Master's Degree in Professional Archeology and Integral Management of Heritage and the Master in Virtual Heritage, titles coordinated by professors of the Department of Prehistory, Archeology, Ancient History, Philology Greek and Latin Philology.

The first meeting of the project took place at the University of Monastir (Monastir, Tunisia) on 5-7 February. In this meeting, the representative of the University of Alicante, Professor Gabriel García Atiénzar, coordinator of the Master in Archeology of the UA, made a first assessment of the initial analysis that will serve to lay the foundations of the Baseline stady and future Master. This first task will seek to collect different types of data among participating Tunisian institutions through a survey designed by UA team. Once the data has been analyzed, the contents and competences of the Master will be tailored, a task that will be further developed in a next meeting to be held in Brno (Czech Republic) in April.

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erasmus+, higher education, CUDIMHA