Events

Upcoming events

• Ceremony of awarding of the certificate of successful completion of the OpenMed online course to the learning group at Notre Dame University – Louaize: October 23, 2018 (Computer Center Conference Room, NDU, Lebanon)
• Presentation at the Erasmus+ Information Day in Ramallah, Palestine: 12 November 2018
• Presentation at the Erasmus+ Information Day in Bergamo, Italy: 15 November 2018
• Poster presentation at the HERE Annual Conference “Capacity building for higher education reform: The impact of collaborative international projects”, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), 12-13 December 2018
• Contribution to the Open Access event at AUC, Cairo: 26-27 November 2018

Past Events

Events organised by OpenMed

• Final Conference in Rome, Italy: 10 October 2018 (hosted by UNIMED)
• 2nd Open Education Day in Marrakesh: 22-24 January 2018 (hosted by Cadi Ayyad University)
• Open Education training week: Turin, Italy: 25-29 September, 2017 (hosted by Politecnico di Torino)
• OER Facilitators’ workshop: Madrid, Spain: 15-18 May 2017 (hosted by UNIR)
• OER Strategy Forum in Birzeit, Palestine: 20 April, 2017 (hosted by Birzeit University)
• OER Strategy Forum in Amman, Jordan: 28 February, 2017 (hosted by PSUT)
• OER Strategy Forum in Marrakech, Morocco: 6-7 December 2016 (hosted by Cadi Ayyad University)
• OER Strategy Forum in Cairo, Egypt: 30 November, 2016 (hosted by Cairo University)
• Open Symposium at Coventry University (UK), 3 May 2016

Webinar Series

As part of the OpenMed training course, we have organised five webinars on different aspects of Open Education and OER, with international leaders in the field. These events took place from October to December 2017, recordings are available.

• (extra) July 24, 2018 Webinar Open Licensing in the Erasmus+ CBHE projects with Cable Green, Creative Commons
• December 5, 2017 Webinar M5. Open Educational Practices with Catherine Cronin, CELT (Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching) at the National University of Ireland, Galway
• November 21, 2017 Webinar M4. Localising OER and MOOC with Shireen Yacoub, Chief Executive Officer, Edraak.org, Queen Rania Foundation for Education & Development, Jordan
• November 7, 2017 Webinar M3. Opening Up Education through OER and MOOC with Bea de los Arcos, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
• October 25, 2017 Webinar M2. Open Licensing and Copyright in Education with Cable Green, Creative Commons
• October 10, 2017 Webinar M1. Introducing Openness in Education with Lorna M. Campbell, Education Design & Engagement, University of Edinburgh

Participation to Conferences and Seminars

2018

• Open Education Workshop at GJU, Amman: 7 October 2018
• Participation to the symposium on Education Innovation and the Dynamics of Reform in Morocco (Higher Council of Education, Training and Scientific Research Educational – CSEFRS), Rabat (Morocco)
• Presentation at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, 16-22 July 2018, Seville (Spain). The panel is scheduled for July 17 at 5.00 pm
• Presentation at the event “UNIMED meets Palestinian Universities“, 26 June 2018,  Nablus (Palestine)
• Presentation at the EDEN Conference, 18 June 2018, Genova (Italy)
• Presentation at the Cluster meeting organised by the National Erasmus+ Office in Palestine, 3 May 2018, Ramallah (Palestine)
• Participation to OER18, 18-19 April 2018, Bristol (UK)
• Participation to IEEE EDUCON, 18-20 April 2018, Canary Islands (Spain)
• Presentation at the UNIMED Week in Brussels, 10-12 April 2018, Brussels (Belgium)
• OpenMed featured at the 51st session of the General Conference of AArU: 3-5 April, Khalde (Lebanon)
• Presentation at the TiceMed11 Symposium: 28-29 March 2018, Marrakesh (Morocco)
• Open Education Week, 6 March 2018
• First Forum of the Federation of Russian and Arab University Rectors: 18-20 February 2018, Beirut (Lebanon)
• Third Turkish-Arab Universities Conference on Higher Education (TACHE 2018): February 13-16, 2018, Istanbul (Turkey)

2017

• 14^th Meeting of the Affiliated Institutions of the Association of Arab universities, and 8th International Conference on Arab Tourism: 7-10 December, 2017, Luxor, Egypt
• Keynote presentation at the RELIF 2017 Symposium: 1 December 2017, Hammamet (Tunisia)
• Exhibition at at the World Science Forum 2017: 7-11 November 2017, Dead Sea Convention Center, Jordan
• Exhibition at the 50th General Conference of the Association of Arab Universities: October 22-25, 2017, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
• Open Access Day at AUC, Cairo, 23 October 2017 (Panel on open education and MOOCs)
• Workshop at IDUAI 2017 on Key issues to design and implement a National declaration about Open Education: 28 September 2018 within the International day to universal access to information (IDUAI 2017), organised by UNESCO and hosted by the Government of Mauritus
• International Conference “Digital Territories”, 29-30 June 2017, Granada, Spain
• Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) Webinar, 7 June 2017, online
• “ICT days” at Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco May 19-21, 2017, OpenMed roundtable about ‘Pedagogical Innovation with OER’
• Conferences: Colloque International sur les TICE: 27-28 April 2017, Kénitra, Ibn Toufail University, Morocco (“Les TICE un fort potentiel pour le développement des Ressources Educatives Libres : cas du projet OpenMed”, Khalid Berrada, Cadi Ayyad University)
• OER17: The Politics of Open: 5-6 April 2017, London, UK
• UNIMED Week in Brussels, Showcase (OpenMed), 28-30 March 2017, Brussels, Belgium
• Open Education Week 2017: Towards a Regional OER Agenda for South Mediterranean Universities, online, March 30, 2017
• CITEF’2017, Les technologies en éducation et formation: “Innovations et pratiques”, 22-23 March 2017, Rabat, Morocco

2016

• Presentation of OpenMed and its draft OER Regional Agenda at the OER Seminar in Tunisia, organised by the UNESCO Chair in OER at the University of Sousse (Sousse, 27 October 2016)
• UNIMED General Assembly 2016 “OER Workshop” (Rome, October 21, 2016)
• EADTU Conference “Enhancing European Higher Education: Opportunities and Impact of New Modes of Teaching” (Rome, October 19-21, 2016). Plenary presentation of OpenMed.
• EDEN Conference “Re-Imagining Learning Environments”, 14-16 June 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Synergy strand presentation.
• Open Education Week, 7-11 March 2016

Partnership Meetings

• 13-15 January 2016: Kick-off meeting in Rome, Italy
• 3-4 May 2016: 1st interim meeting in Coventry, UK
• 1-2 March 2017: 2nd interim meeting in Amman, Jordan
• 28-29 November 2017: 3rd interim meeting in Alexandria, Egypt
• 3-4 May 2018: 4th interim meeting in Agadir, Morocco
• 11-12 October 2018: final meeting in Rome, Italy