Leading organization: University of Tourism and Ecology

• 24 hours of international training of consortium staff in the field of digitization of academic education - program and pilot training
• 12 hours of international training - online for the consortium staff in the field of digitization of academic education
• 10 hours of internal training in each consortium institution on creating digital tools and teaching aids
• Training of at least 20 consortium participants

Increasing digital competences and the ability to adapt existing teaching materials adapted to remote education or creating new ones was the main goal of the project and the most important educational need faced by academic lecturers forced by the pandemic situation to switch to remote teaching. The target groups for this result were the consortium participants. In the future, indirect groups will also include academic teachers from outside the consortium who will want to benefit from the project's achievements. Innovative elements - these are innovative trainings, new teaching aids that do not yet exist for conducting classes that will be created during the trainings. These are also digitalization training programs that are tailored to a specific group of recipients. However, apart from tangible results in the form of training programs and teaching aids, the most important result will be the intangible result in the form of an increase in the competences of training participants and an increase in the level of matching their competences to the educational needs resulting from the need to work online. The implementation of this result has an impact on improving the quality of teaching in partner institutions, expanding the educational offer, increasing the comfort of lecturers' work, increasing students' motivation to learn, as well as counteracting the feeling of inadequacy and disturbances in work motivation and professional burnout of lecturers. The result is described and made available online in an open access formula. After minor adaptations, it can be used by other educational institutions and people interested in it. The result is available in English.

Leading organization: Jagiellonian University

• 1 international study program for the specialization of the study program entitled: "Expert in security policy and cooperation in the Mediterranean basin"

The international study program for the educational module in the specialization "Expert in Security Policy and Cooperation in the Mediterranean Basin" is the background for achieving the main goal of the project, which is to improve the digital competences of academic staff. However, since the topic of the new study module turned out to be attractive to all partner institutions, we hope that it will become a motivational engine to face the need to digitize the teaching process and produce tools and teaching aids for it. The project leader, the Jagiellonian University, introduced a new course "Dilemmas of multiculturalism and pluralism in the Mediterranean region" to its academic offer, while individual consortium partners introduced selected elements of it into their educational offer. The direct target group were the consortium participants - academic staff, and the indirect target group - students who were taught in accordance with the guidelines of this result. The innovation of this result is itself, because the course is the nucleus of an innovative study program and its adaptations that the partners will make to adapt its selected elements to the needs of their universities. The exchange of good practices and the experience of other consortium members were used to create this result. Thanks to partners who in the past had close contacts with non-EU countries of the Mediterranean Basin and shared their experiences, the Jagiellonian University as a leader will help make the study program realistic, interesting and adapted to contemporary reality.

Leading organization: University of Sevilla

• Syllabuses - for selected courses within the planned specialization

The implementation of this result was related to the preparation and development of individual courses for the study module. In accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Higher Education (in Poland and the relevant bodies in the partnership) and in accordance with the recommendations on ECTS, each module covers at least 210 teaching hours, which, divided on average into 15 or 30-hour courses (lectures and workshops), was to provide the need to develop approximately 13-15 courses. It was planned to develop a full study program and syllabi for 5-7 courses (in Poland) and 1-3 courses in partner institutions. In fact, 14 syllabi were made. The selection of courses to be developed will be made only when the study program is created. Preliminary talks about its components have already begun, but they are not yet specified, as this is one of the goals of this project. Target groups - consortium participants and in the long term - other universities and academics who want to benefit from the project results and implement the new module in their institutions.

Leading organization: Jagiellonian University

• At least 16 e-teaching materials in digital form (e-lectures, e-tutorials, e-presentations, e-self-evaluations, etc.)

Based on the competences acquired during digital competence training conducted during the project (both in the form of online training and stationary - during the Summer School organized by WSTE in Sucha Beskidzka in June 2022), the consortium participants, who are research and teaching staff of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the University of Padua (Italy) and the University of Seville (Spain) developed teaching materials in digital form (e-materials). A total of 19 e-materials were created that concern broadly understood issues of the Mediterranean region. They include e-lectures and e-presentations, developed primarily using the Prezi program, as well as e-self-evaluations, using various criteria for checking knowledge (quizzes, work with text, materials for individual work with video material, etc.).

The developed materials include five thematic blocks that can be conducted in the form of separate modules (courses). In particular, these are:

• 1) Postcolonialism in the Mediterranean / Post-Colonial Dilemmas, Identity and Artistic Creativity. The case of Afrodescendants in Italy and in Portugal (3 e-lectures and materials for individual student work)
• 2) Multiculturalism policy and human rights in the Mediterranean basin (The Securitization of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean, Cultural Diversity and Private Internationality Law; Conditionality and Human Rights in the Mediterranean Policy, The Enclave-Cities of Ceuta and Melilla and Their Role in Immigration Pressure from the Maghreb to the EU)
• 3) EU policy in the Mediterranean basin (External relations and Mediterranean policy, EU and Western Balkans, The Turning Point of the 1980s in Euro-Mediterranean Relations
• 4) France's Mediterranean Policy (3 e-presentations and individual work with text + questions)
• 5) Sustainable development and tourism policy in the Mediterranean region (The Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean Andalusia (Spain)-Morroco, Evolution of the factors that explain the spatial distrubution of tourism in the Mediterranean area; Conception and insertion of the Mediterranean Arc, History of Development in the Middle East and North Africa) .

The developed materials can be used during classes conducted both online and stationary. Jagiellonian University lecturers used them during a pilot course launched at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in the academic year 2022/2023 entitled Dilemmas of multiculturalism and pluralism in the Mediterranean region. Colleagues from the University of Padua used e-materials when conducting classes on International History of the Balkans, International History of the Middle East, International relations after 1990, EU Law - advanced and Human rights in International Politics, as part of the specialization at the university. MA Program International relations and diplomacy and Human rights and multilevel governance. Lecturers from the University of Seville used the developed materials when conducting classes on Geography of Europe, Geography of Andalusia, as well as Regional Development and Tourism in Andalusia, Territory, Tourism, and Sustainable Development and Geographical Analysis of Tourism in Andalusia in the field of Geography and Territory Management, and Tourism.

All author's materials have been made available in the form of Open Access, both on the project website https://dg-med.project.uj.edu.pl/ and on the Erasmus+ program results platform. In this form, they are available to academic lecturers, including: classes on subjects such as: EU policy in the Mediterranean basin, Mediterranean countries: societies, politics, economy, Multiculturalism of Italy, Cultural diversity of the Iberian Peninsula, Human rights, International relations, Multicultural policy in the Mediterranean basin (etc.), as well as for teachers, students and anyone interested in Mediterranean issues.

Learning materials

​Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas:

• France's Mediterranean Policy. France as a Former Colonial Power
• France's Mediterranean Policy. France in times of the Fourth and Fifth Republic
• France's Mediterranean Policy
• France's Mediterranean Policy (work with text and class discussuon)

Karolina Golemo

• Post-Colonial Dilemmas, Identity and Artistic Creativity. The case of Afrodescendants in Italy and in Portugal
• Post-Colonial Dilemmas, Identity and Artistic Creativity. The case of Afrodescendants in Italy and in Portugal. Music Tasks
• Post-Colonial Dilemmas, Identity and Artistic Creativity. The case of Afrodescendants in Italy and in Portugal. Kola San Jon Case Study
• Post-Colonial Dilemmas, Identity and Artistic Creativity. The case of Afrodescendants in Italy and in Portugal. Post-Colonial Discourse in Italy. Igiaba Scego's example

Tadeusz Kopyś

• Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean (Energy, Security, Arab Spring)
• Turkey and Western Balkan
• Yoke or Pax Ottomana
• Turkish Communities on the Balkan Peninsula 

Elena Calandri

• External relations and Mediterranean policy
• The Turning Point of the 1980s in Euro-Mediterranean Relations

​Diego Zannoni

• Cultural Diversity and Private Internationality Law

Benedetto Zaccaria

• EU and Western Balkans

Pietro de Perini 

• Conditionality and Human Rights in the Mediterranean Policy
• The Securitization of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean

​Francesco Saverio Leopardi

• History of Development in the Middle East and North Africa  

​Reyes González Relaño

• Evolution of the factors that explain the spatial distrubution of tourism in the Mediterranean area

Javier López-Otero

• The Enclave-Cities of Ceuta and Melilla and Their Role in Immigration Pressure from the Maghreb to the EU

​Jesús Ventura-Fernández

• The Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean Andalusia (Spain)-Morroco

Jesús Gabriel Moreno

• Conception and insertion of the Mediterranean Arc

Leading organization: University of Tourism and Ecology

• 1 international, digital methodological guide to the program containing comments on e-lectures (min. 20 pages)

The methodological manual for lecturers was designed as an aid for academic teachers conducting classes in the field of Mediterranean Studies, which are planned to be created in the near future at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University. The use of a methodological guide, which is popular in school education but rarely seen at the academic level, is an innovative solution. The manual was prepared by academic teachers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, in cooperation with lecturers from partner universities in Padua (Italy), Sevilla (Spain) and the University of Tourism and Ecology in Sucha Beskidzka. The authors tried to take into account the interdisciplinary nature of the studies resulting from the specificity of the Mediterranean region, enriching it with a description of digital tools that will make the form of teaching materials used both in stationary and online teaching more attractive. The manual consists of two parts: 1) regarding digital competences, in particular tools that can be used during online lectures and when preparing teaching materials, and 2) lesson plans regarding broadly understood issues of the Mediterranean region, containing recommendations for conducting e-lectures, taking into account descriptions of so-called good practices. The proposed lesson plans concern various aspects of the Mediterranean basin, with particular emphasis on EU policies in the region, both from a historical, political, legal and sociological-cultural perspective. It also touched upon issues related to migration, EU neighborhood and security policy, multiculturalism and human rights, Euro-Mediterranean relations, and in particular EU policies towards the Western Balkans, Turkey, and North Africa. Issues of post-colonial relations from a cultural perspective were also taken into account, based on the examples of Spain, Italy and Portugal, as well as tourism in the region. The authors' intention is to introduce students to the specificity of the Mediterranean region in all its complexity, taking into account the characteristics of both European and southern countries in this area, and to better understand the phenomena and processes taking place in this region. Each of the given scenarios, in addition to a brief description of the module, taking into account methodological goals, time devoted to its implementation and form (lecture or seminar), also contains a description of the teaching methods used, a recommended bibliography allowing teachers to prepare for classes, as well as useful links for audiovisual materials that can be used during classes. A recommended form of checking students' knowledge is also provided. The vast majority of the given scenarios were tested during the pilot course launched at the Institute of European Studies in the second semester of the academic year 2022/2023 entitled: Dilemmas of multiculturalism and pluralism in the Mediterranean region. In addition to Mediterranean courses, this guide may be useful in the teaching process of both bachelor's and master's studies, in preparing classes in subjects such as Intercultural Relations, International Relations or History of European Integration, etc. In a broader perspective, it can also be used by secondary school teachers who want to introduce students to the specifics of the Mediterranean region.

Leading organization: University of Padova

• 1 international, digital e-script for students containing, among others, scientific commentary on the topic of the classes, control questions for self-evaluation, a proposed bibliography for self-education and expanding knowledge (min. 40 pages)

The new Mediterranean studies program planned in the near future at the Jagiellonian University (i.e. at the project coordinator's institution), as well as the implementation of modifications to the existing didactic offer regarding the Mediterranean area (at partner institutions, i.e. the universities of Padua and Seville), require appropriate support for students in the education process. Result 06 of the project is the creation of a special textbook (in electronic form) intended to support students in independently acquiring and expanding knowledge. This e-textbook is also intended to be teaching support for participants of the pilot course Dilemmas of Multiculturalism and Pluralism in the Mediterranean Region at the Jagiellonian University, which was created as part of the DG_MED project and is the first step to constructing a full program of Mediterranean studies. In the future, it is planned to introduce this module in English online, with the participation of lecturers from partner universities. It is therefore assumed that students will do a significant part of the work on their own, treating meetings with lecturers as a tutorial supporting their teaching process. Since the module is intended to be innovative and innovative, care was taken to provide a coherent teaching tool for students, who in the case of this result (O6) are the direct and main target group. The production of result 06 also gave academic staff the opportunity to improve their digital competences acquired during training organized as part of the project.

The interdisciplinary e-textbook, created in English, is titled "New dimensions of Mediterranean studies: a multidisciplinary approach for experts in security and cooperation in the Mediterranean". It is one of the main results of the project and the result of fruitful cooperation between four teams. It is a compilation of twelve mini-scientific articles on political, social, cultural, economic, legal and humanitarian issues, set in a Mediterranean context. The central areas that the authors focus on are security, cooperation and mutual influence between the countries of the Mediterranean basin. The Mediterranean area is understood here as both a geopolitical region and a socio-cultural space. Each chapter of the manual is related to a specific course conducted at partner universities (as well as to courses already conducted and planned at the Jagiellonian University). The textbook therefore offers students a set of synthetic texts on important aspects of a selected issue. It contains not only bibliographic references to a given chapter, but also a broader bibliography intended to facilitate further exploration of the issues discussed in the text. A separate element are recommendations contained in some of the chapters regarding audiovisual materials useful in the educational process. Each chapter also contains self-evaluation questions at the end to support students in preparing for the final exam. The e-textbook created as part of Outcome 06 may prove particularly useful for students and researchers from Central and Eastern Europe, where Mediterranean studies are just beginning to develop in the university teaching offer.

The positive dynamics of cooperation within the project made it possible to continue the work undertaken during the preparation of result 06. During team meetings and dissemination events (conferences, workshops), there was an exchange of research experiences and teaching materials, which fully confirmed the value and challenges of a broad interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the area Mediterranean. Meetings of researchers from the fields of history, international and European law, tourism, cultural studies, geography, environmental issues, post-colonial studies and political scientists were particularly fruitful. As a result of these meetings, the idea of creating a scientific publication with the participation of scientists from outside the team was born. The result of this initiative is the emerging collective work Routledge Handbook on Cooperation, Interdependencies and Security in the Mediterranean. The book is prepared by researchers from the Jagiellonian University (Karolina Golemo), the University of Padua (Elena Calandri) and the University of Seville (Jesús Ventura Fernández), members of the DG_MED project. This collective work will consist of 25 chapters written by both members of the DG_MED project and highly qualified researchers from various scientific disciplines. This team of collaborators is to guarantee a truly innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the problems of the Mediterranean area. The publication will be published by the prestigious Routledge publishing house in 2024.

Leading organization: Jagiellonian University

• 1 review for the student script and methodology guide

The main need to satisfy the usefulness and sense of the project is the need to ensure high quality of the results produced by the project. O7 are reviews of the material effects of the project: an e-script for students and an e-guide for academic lecturers. The reviews are the work of independent experts who will assess the substantive value of O5 and O6, their digital value and usefulness for the user.