Unipd participates in the first Unitafrica project face-to-face meeting
13.05.2025
The University of Padua is involved in 4 TNE projects funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), including UNITAFRICA. The general objective of Transnational Educational Initiatives (TNE) is to promote cooperation with foreign university institutions in order to encourage the internationalisation of Italian universities and promote the Italian higher education model as a best practice at an international level.
On the 15th and 16th of May 2025, the first in-person meeting of the UNITAFRICA project will be held in Addis Ababa, at the Italian Cultural Institute, with the support of the Italian Embassy in Ethiopia. This academic cooperation project, coordinated by the University of Brescia, involves 21 Italian universities and 78 African universities within the PNRR-TNE projects. The objective of UNITAFRICA is to consolidate academic cooperation experiences in teaching and identify best practices through innovative teaching methods. A multidisciplinary educational platform accessible to students and lecturers from the participating universities is also being created.
The project, supported by the twenty years of experience of CUCS, aims to ensure equitable and sustainable access to high-level secondary education without gender discrimination, in line with international standards of Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063. Among the activities already initiated are the opening meeting, the establishment of the UNITAFRICA Alliance, and thematic webinars.
The meeting in Addis Ababa presents the progress of the activities and strengthens the partnership with the African universities involved. The event is held in a hybrid mode to allow remote participation.
