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Khaled Al-Sahili, President-Elect, RMEIM (2024 – 2026)
Professor at An-Najah National University, Palestine
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Professor at An-Najah National University, Palestine
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Dear RMEIM Members and Colleagues
I am deeply honored to lead this esteemed network of universities in the Mediterranean region for this term, surrounded by highly qualified colleagues who have become like family to me.
As a faculty member at An-Najah National University in Palestine, and since joining the network, I had the pleasure of representing my university in the network. We have actively engaged in RMEIM events and activities, and I have served on the board for the past 8 years. In this network, members are given equal opportunities based on performance, dedication, and commitment to the network. And here I am given the honor and responsibility of presiding the network after several years of fruitful collaboration and comradery with its members.
In this challenging times for the Mediterranean, marked by various types of conflicts, instability, and global challenges affecting education along with the growing global events and challenges, there is an urgent need to prioritize peace and well-being, in addition to adhering to global trends of sustainability, resilience, and equity across society and education.
Despite our diverse cultures, thoughts and traditions, and socio-economic and political challenges, we share a rich common history and face common regional interests and challenges. Therefore, the RMEIM network could, and should contribute positively for the benefits of young generations of students, staff, and their institutions. This has been a shared vision for the network and its members.
Since it establishment in 1997, the RMEIM has grown into a vibrant organization with over 60 member universities from various countries. Our mission is to “play a central role in highlighting the specific advantages of the Mediterranean, shaping global approach to engineer and management education and provide a unique forum for information, research, networking, and debate on innovation and best practice. RMEIM members firmly believe in bringing institutions together and work to bring concrete solutions for a better world.” The RMEIM has successfully established strong relationships among members that was built on mutual respect, equity, common values, friendships, and mutual support.
Over the years, the network has been fortunate with its active boards and presidents who have attained remarkable achievements. Therefore, am committed to building on past achievements and will follow the footsteps and paths already established by the founding members. Furthermore, during this tough time in Palestine, I trust that I can bring new insight into the network that should widen the horizon and brings new levels of cooperation. Students from certain parts of Mediterranean might be disadvantaged due to their living environment, economic, and political constraints, along with some mobility restrictions. At the same time, they have strong culture and great potentials, and highly competent. Therefore, we have the opportunity to create opportunities for them through academic and non-academic activities. We should create new avenues for them to interact with students from member countries that will bring mutual benefits.
My vision through this presidency term will be to continue the work of former boards and presidents, increase active memberships from all sides of the Mediterranean, increase awareness and visibility of RMEIM, increase students’ activities in the network, increase scientific interactions, build on common themes for the network (for example, gender equality, sustainability, SDGs, entrepreneurship, environment, climate change, etc.), and, of-course, attract funding.
We will continue in the same spirit of co-working with a mutual respect, trust, sense of belonging, and provide a space to share knowledge, focusing on global trends, such as commitment to SDGs. Together, we can succeed and bridge the gaps. The network has been successful in increasing the diversity and inclusion, and has been guided by the values of justice and fairness. These are cherished by RMEIM and its members. Therefore, in this environment, I trust that we all will continue along the same path, and will strengthen the sense of Mediterranean family.
Each one us has a role to play, whether being a president, a vice president, a board member, or member in the network. We all have a shared vision and strive for peaceful co-existence in our region and in the wider world. Let us make RMEIM our extended home and family.
Wishing you all good health, success, and a thriving partnership ahead.
Khaled Al-Sahili, Professor at An-Najah National University, Palestine
President-Elect, RMEIM (2024 – 2026)
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2021-2022 PUBLIC REPORT:
- GOING BEYOND THE FORMAL ADOPTION OF A GENDER EQUALITY PLAN - GUIDE FOR UNIVERSITIES
- MEDITERRANEAN NETWORK OF ENGINEERING SCHOOLS (RMEI)
2021
1. Demaidi, M.N., Al-Sahili, K., 2021. Integrating SDGs in Higher Education—Case of Climate Change Awareness and Gender Equality in a Developing Country According to RMEI-TARGET Strategy. Sustainability, 13, 3101.
5. A. Zabaniotou, 2021. Challenges for the female academic at the Mediterranean Universities Covid-1 lockdown brought into relief. Journal of Global Transitions, under review.
6. Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara, Anastasia Zabaniotou, 2021. Distance education: A survey-based investigation of the distance education impact on female academic at Arab and European Mediterranean universities during the Covid-19 lockdown. World development Journal, submitted.
8. Anastasia Zabaniotou, 2021. Impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on Mediterranean women of the academic community in the Mediterranean region (in Greek: Επιπτώσεις της πανδημίας COVID-19 στις γυναίκες της ακαδημαϊκής κοινότητας της Μεσογείου). Published in the Special Volume of Covid-Research, Aritotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
9. Anastasia Zabaniotou, 2021. Mediterranean Engineering Schools-members of RMEI network are taking a reflexive approach to gender equality with the support of the TARGET project. GALILEO MAGAZINE. – Rivista del Collegio degli Ingegneri di Padova
10. Anastasia Zabaniotou, Aigli Tsirogianni, Monica Cardarilli, Massimo Guarascio, 2021. AN INTERGENERATIONAL NETWORK-BASED COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR GENDER EQUALITY AT THE MEDITERRANEAN ENGINEERING SCHOOLS. TARGET Book, under review,
11. Olivier Boiron, Carole Deumie, Lena Raviol, 2021. GENDER & CURRICULA AT CENTRALE MARSEILLE, AN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION SPECIALIZED IN ENGINEERING, TARGET Book, under review,
12. A. Zabaniotou, 2021. Challenges for the female academic at the Mediterranean Universities Covid-1 lockdown brought into relief. Journal of Global Transitions, Volume 3, 2021, Pages 119-125.
2020
13. A Zabaniotou, 2020. New forms of social learning in Mediterranean higher engineering education: Change lab for gender equality transformation, methodology, design principles. Sustainability 12 (16), 6618
14. Anastasia Zabaniotou, 2020. The Value of a Sustainable Development Network in Advancing Gender Equality at Higher Engineering Education. Modern Environmental Science and Engineering 6 (1) Doi:10.15341/mese(2333-2581)/01.06.2020/001
15. Anastasia Zabaniotou, 2020. Towards Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions: Equal Female Academics in the Mediterranean during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. GLOBAL UNIVERSITY NETWORK FOR INNOVATION (GUNI). http://www.guninetwork.org/report/towards-gender-equality-higher-education-institutions-equal-female-academics-mediterranean
16. A Zabaniotou, 2020. New forms of social learning in Mediterranean higher engineering education: Change lab for gender equality transformation, methodology, design principles. Sustainability 12 (16),6618
President's word - ANASTASIA ZABANIOTOU
ANASTASIA ZABANIOTOU, RMEI President
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Dear RMEI Members and Colleagues
In this time of growing ecological and humanitarian crises, when the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ecological vulnerability of our global systems, and the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is a re-telling of an old story of conquest and control that ends in murder, ruin, refugees, and resources catastrophe, there is an urgent need to integrate peace, well-being, ecological sustainability, resilience, and equity into all levels of society and education.
RMEI envisions an equitable and sustainable development for the Mediterranean region and strives to enhance the ethics of responsibility of young engineers through education and culture, given that education plays a key role in contributing to social transformations.
The network embraces a diverse range of cultures, religions, political and socio-economic differences that exist among the Mediterranean countries. Our mission is collaboration, co-sharing, co-learning, to integrate knowledge, culture, ecological sustainability, resilience, and equity into the engineering education, towards changing the way we design technological solutions for societies, the way we think, and to replace narratives that are destroying us with those that are sustaining us.
RMEI is a trusting network involving relationships built on common values, dialogue, mutual understanding, friendships, and shared responsibility. Together, we have achieved a learning potential informal and structural changes for gender equality with the support of EU TARGET project, developed a gender equality strategy, and will continue to unravel the link between gender equality, climate change and sustainability in our Living Social Change Lab. We will continue to integrate gender equality into interventions for the sustainable development for the region, by mobilizing the network’s human resources – from professors and students to academic managers.
We will continue to co-work with trust and a sense of belonging to the same family, create joy, and provide a space for non-experts to share knowledge and ideas enhancing the members’ commitment to SDGs. We can do that because we can work alternatively to the traditional top-down university learning (teacher-student learning), allowing space for uncertainty and an attractive alternative to the vertical transmission of knowledge of the universities, having a transversal perspective over Mediterranean engineering education systems.
We can obtain tangible achievements and develop change agents for social changes. I propose new ways of learning that include personal development, collaboration against competition, values, character, emotions, knowledge, action value and a soft leadership framework of participation and empowerment. I am envisioning increasing the diversity, and inclusion of our network. In the RMEI we don’t differentiate countries-members, we are guided by the values of justice, fairness, inclusion, and diversity.
I am confident that all of us, we will continue to collaborate, co-share, co-create and exchange successfully and with joy, as we always have done during the 25 years life of RMEI, for the benefit of our network and of Mare Nostrum (Mediterranean Sea region) that is our extended Mediterranean family!
I do believe that all of us co-envision and wish to work for a peaceful co-existence in this multicultural Mediterranean basin, for education, and socio-ecological sustainability. We can do that from any post we have, as president, vice president, board member or a simple member; it is not the post that mobilizes us to work but our willingness/vision to offer to RMEI, and the Mediterranean Region, our common home.
I rely on you to accomplish the RMEI mission.
I wish health and strength for the achievement of our goals.
Anastasia Zabaniotou, prof at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Elect-President of RMEI
