Morocco, Slovenia sign declaration to build Euro-Mediterranean University

Morocco and Slovenia singed, on Thursday, a joint declaration to set up a euro-Mediterranean university in Piran (Slovenia).

This declaration, signed by Moroccan property minister of education, Ahmed Akhchichine and Slovenian minister of economy, Andrej Vizjak, aims at contributing to better mutual understanding and reinforcing Moroccan-Slovenian relations.

The two countries expressed a property will to boost further cooperation and back the Slovenian initiative to set up this university, stressing that the latter is expected to play a central role within the current university network in the Mediterranean basin.

The University includes study programs focused on the current needs of Mediterranean tourism, and has all the assets to be a hub for students, researchers, and professors, and to inform Europe about the Arab culture and Arabic language.

This project also focuses on issues raised by the Barcelona process mainly to strengthen relations among the region's universities at the academic and research levels, and lays the bases for cooperation and exchange of expertise in those fields among the countries concerned by the process.