University of Bari
The University of Bari Aldo Moro, one of the 58 State universities, was founded in 1925 and is attended today by about 60,000 students, across the Bari, Brindisi, and Taranto campuses.
The University of Bari research centres are highly interactive, having connections among different departments, universities, and other research centres. The University reaches its institutional goals in teaching and research through 24 Departments in formal, physical, life and social sciences. The University of Bari considers internationalization a strategic activity to pursue aims of community, national and regional relevance, common to all its institutional functions, essential for the growth of the European community competitiveness and for the increase in value of human capital. As regards its partners and the geographic area of reference, the University of Bari intends:- to increase the number and quality of inter-institutional agreements within the frame of the new European Programme 2014-2020 and of international cooperation agreements, with all the institutions sharing didactic and research strategies and methodologies with it:
- to have an active role in the stabilization process of the Balkan area countries and in the
implementation of the so-called “Salonicco Agenda”, leading to the whole agreement of this area with the European Union;
- to take part in the Barcelona Process for the realization of a Euro-Mediterranean common area, enhancing the network of the already existing relationships thanks to CIRCEO (Interdepartmental Centre of Research and Cooperation with Eastern and South-Eastern Europe) and to CUM (Community of Mediterranean Universities).
Cap – Center for Life Long Learning - University of Bari is an international best practice in the field of inclusion and academic integration for refugees students (IOM – Project Skills2work; In Here Project). The center is coordinated by a group of researchers (Department of Educational Sciences,Psychology, Communication) in sociology, pedagogy and psychology of work moved along the lines of the reconstruction of the trajectories of life and also of the acknowledgement of previous educational credentials of refugees in Italy, through the deployment of procedures for the comparability of study titles with a view to academic re-enrolment and the certification of professional competences and soft skills for the facilitation of insertion in the world of work.
The CAP works on the preparation of effective procedures together with the Information Centre on Academic Mobility and Comparability (CIMEA). The CIMEA, as the official Italian hub in the international ENIC-NARIC network, has worked since 1984 as delegated by the MIUR (Ministry for Education, Universities and Research) for the ordering of methodologies and tools used by Italian academic institutions for the recognition of foreign study qualifications, and in particular for the beneficiaries of international protection.The aim thus lies in identifying measures concretely supporting secondary and higher education and in guaranteeing the recognition of studies and skills acquired, and it was on this specific aspect that the good practice of the university was consolidated, thanks to and in the light of the direct connection between sociological research and innovative interventions of academic integration, also arising from the interdisciplinary nature of social research.
Over recent years, this challenge has been taken up and pursued by the Italian University Network for Lifelong Learning (RUIAP – Associated Partner in this project), of which the University of Bari, through the CAP, is a member. Among its aims, the network sets out to promote services useful for favouring the recognition, validation and certification – both on a university and non-university level – of previous learning (knowledge and skills). Every day, the CAP researchers come across life stories, new biographies, interrupted paths and trajectories with regard to which the attempt is made to give
a (formal and substantial) response which takes the shape of a document/certificate of academic equivalence or comparability; a document clarifying previous qualifications to be sent to the governing board of the university, presented in a folder highlighting the professional skills and individual soft skills required to obtain a qualification recognized by regional professional registers, and responding to European and international guidelines on the cultural integration of refugees.
The University of Bari research centres are highly interactive, having connections among different departments, universities, and other research centres. The University reaches its institutional goals in teaching and research through 24 Departments in formal, physical, life and social sciences. The University of Bari considers internationalization a strategic activity to pursue aims of community, national and regional relevance, common to all its institutional functions, essential for the growth of the European community competitiveness and for the increase in value of human capital. As regards its partners and the geographic area of reference, the University of Bari intends:- to increase the number and quality of inter-institutional agreements within the frame of the new European Programme 2014-2020 and of international cooperation agreements, with all the institutions sharing didactic and research strategies and methodologies with it:
- to have an active role in the stabilization process of the Balkan area countries and in the
implementation of the so-called “Salonicco Agenda”, leading to the whole agreement of this area with the European Union;
- to take part in the Barcelona Process for the realization of a Euro-Mediterranean common area, enhancing the network of the already existing relationships thanks to CIRCEO (Interdepartmental Centre of Research and Cooperation with Eastern and South-Eastern Europe) and to CUM (Community of Mediterranean Universities).
Cap – Center for Life Long Learning - University of Bari is an international best practice in the field of inclusion and academic integration for refugees students (IOM – Project Skills2work; In Here Project). The center is coordinated by a group of researchers (Department of Educational Sciences,Psychology, Communication) in sociology, pedagogy and psychology of work moved along the lines of the reconstruction of the trajectories of life and also of the acknowledgement of previous educational credentials of refugees in Italy, through the deployment of procedures for the comparability of study titles with a view to academic re-enrolment and the certification of professional competences and soft skills for the facilitation of insertion in the world of work.
The CAP works on the preparation of effective procedures together with the Information Centre on Academic Mobility and Comparability (CIMEA). The CIMEA, as the official Italian hub in the international ENIC-NARIC network, has worked since 1984 as delegated by the MIUR (Ministry for Education, Universities and Research) for the ordering of methodologies and tools used by Italian academic institutions for the recognition of foreign study qualifications, and in particular for the beneficiaries of international protection.The aim thus lies in identifying measures concretely supporting secondary and higher education and in guaranteeing the recognition of studies and skills acquired, and it was on this specific aspect that the good practice of the university was consolidated, thanks to and in the light of the direct connection between sociological research and innovative interventions of academic integration, also arising from the interdisciplinary nature of social research.
Over recent years, this challenge has been taken up and pursued by the Italian University Network for Lifelong Learning (RUIAP – Associated Partner in this project), of which the University of Bari, through the CAP, is a member. Among its aims, the network sets out to promote services useful for favouring the recognition, validation and certification – both on a university and non-university level – of previous learning (knowledge and skills). Every day, the CAP researchers come across life stories, new biographies, interrupted paths and trajectories with regard to which the attempt is made to give
a (formal and substantial) response which takes the shape of a document/certificate of academic equivalence or comparability; a document clarifying previous qualifications to be sent to the governing board of the university, presented in a folder highlighting the professional skills and individual soft skills required to obtain a qualification recognized by regional professional registers, and responding to European and international guidelines on the cultural integration of refugees.
