Events

Upcoming events & presentations

• 13 December 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)
• 18-19 December 2018: Workshop on OER for countries in the region (Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt) organised by ISESCO, Rabat (Morocco)
• 19-21 December 2018: Keynote at JIP2018, Sousse (Tunisia)

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)
• 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

• 12-13 December 2018: Poster exhibition at the Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs) Annual Conference 2018, Rome (Italy)
• 26-27 November 2018: Presentation at the Open Access event at AUC, Cairo (Egypt)
• 15 November 2018: Presentation at the Erasmus+ Information Day in Bergamo (Italy)
• 13 November 2018: Presentation at the workshop of the MAYA project, Sidi Dherif, Carthage (Tunisia)
• 12 November 2018: Presentation at the Erasmus+ Information Day in Ramallah (Palestine)
• 25 October 2018: Presentation at the workshop of the Community of Mediterranean Universities (CMU) in Malta
• 23 October 2018: Ceremony of awarding of the certificate of successful completion of the OpenMed online course to the learning group at Notre Dame University – Louaize, (Computer Center Conference Room, NDU, Lebanon)
• 7 October 2018: Open Education Workshop at GJU
• 16-22 July 2018: Presentation at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Seville (Spain)
• 26 June 2018: Presentation at the event “UNIMED meets Palestinian Universities” Nablus (Palestine)
• 18 June 2018: Presentation at the EDEN Conference, Genova (Italy)
• 3 May 2018: Presentation at the Cluster meeting organised by the National Erasmus+ Office in Palestine, Ramallah (Palestine)
• 18-19 April 2018: Participation to OER18, Bristol (UK)
• 18-20 April 2018: Participation to IEEE EDUCON, Canary Islands (Spain)
• Presentation at the UNIMED Week in Brussels, 10-12 April 2018, Brussels (Belgium)
• 3-5 April: OpenMed featured at the 51st session of the General Conference of AArU, Khalde (Lebanon)
• 28-29 March 2018: Presentation at the TiceMed11 Symposium, Marrakesh (Morocco)
• 6 March 2018, Open Education Week
• 18-20 February 2018: First Forum of the Federation of Russian and Arab University Rectors, Beirut (Lebanon)
• February 13-16 2018: Third Turkish-Arab Universities Conference on Higher Education (TACHE 2018), Istanbul (Turkey)

2017

• 26-27 December 2017: OpenMed workshop at An-Najah National University
• 7-10 December 2017: 14^th Meeting of the Affiliated Institutions of the Association of Arab universities, and 8th International Conference on Arab Tourism, Luxor (Egypt)
• 1 December 2017: Keynote presentation at the RELIF 2017 Symposium, Hammamet (Tunisia)
• 7-11 November 2017: Exhibition at at the World Science Forum 2017, Dead Sea Convention Center (Jordan)
• October 22-25, 2017: Exhibition at the 50th General Conference of the Association of Arab Universities, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain (UAE)
• 23 October 2017: Open Access Day at AUC (Panel on open education and MOOCs), Cairo (Egypt)
• 28 September 2018: Workshop at IDUAI 2017 on Key issues to design and implement a National declaration about Open Education within the International day to universal access to information (IDUAI 2017), organised by UNESCO and hosted by the Government of Mauritus
• 29-30 June 2017: International Conference “Digital Territories”, Granada (Spain)
• 7 June 2017: Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) Webinar, online
• May 19-21 2017: “ICT days” at Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, OpenMed roundtable about ‘Pedagogical Innovation with OER’
• 27-28 April 2017: Conference: Colloque International sur les TICE, 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)
• 5-6 April 2017, OER17: The Politics of Open, London (UK)
• 28-30 March 2017: UNIMED Week in Brussels, Showcase (OpenMed), Brussels (Belgium)
• March 30, 2017: Open Education Week 2017: Towards a Regional OER Agenda for South Mediterranean Universities, online
• 22-23 March 2017: CITEF’2017, Les technologies en éducation et formation: “Innovations et pratiques”, Rabat (Morocco)

2016

• 27 October 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 (Tunisia)
• October 21, 2016: UNIMED General Assembly 2016 “OER Workshop”, Rome (Italy)
• 19-21 October 2016: EADTU Conference “Enhancing European Higher Education: Opportunities and Impact of New Modes of Teaching”, Plenary presentation of OpenMed, Rome (Italy)
• 14-16 June 2016: EDEN Conference “Re-Imagining Learning Environments”, Synergy strand presentation, Budapest (Hungary)
• 7-11 March 2016, Open Education Week, online

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