Abdelkhaleq BERRAMDANE
Professor Emeritus at the University of Tours (France)
Legal expert at the European Parliament
In its international vocation, UIR has set itself the goal of widening access to knowledge and know-how. As a result, numerous partnerships and project support programs are part of our various training courses.
Following the example of the European Union, we deploy on-site components of the Erasmus+ programs.
On this dedicated page of our website, visitors will find information on our didactic, pedagogical and research activities for higher education. More specifically, visitors will be able to find out about the activities implemented as part of the Jean Monnet Module activity.
Everyone will be able to appreciate the density and rigor of the subjects covered. We're delighted to be able to offer our students and learners this vast array of knowledge.
Who is Jean Monnet?
Jean Monnet (1888-1979)
, founding father of the European Community, made a decisive contribution to transforming Europe into an area of freedom, prosperity and peace.
French politician and economic advisor Jean Monnet devoted part of his life to the cause of European integration. He was the inspiration behind the "Schuman Plan", which envisaged the pooling of Franco-German coal and steel production. Jean Monnet was originally from Cognac, France. After leaving school at the age of 16, his activities as a cognac merchant and banker took him around the world. During the First and Second World Wars, he was in charge of coordinating industrial production in France and the UK.
General Commissioner for Planning in the French government, he was the main inspiration behind the "Schuman Declaration", pronounced on May 9, 1950. This led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, considered the birth of European integration. Jean Monnet was the first Chairman of the ECSC Executive Committee, from 1952 to 1955.
What is the aim of Jean Monnet activities?
Jean Monnet Activities aim to promote excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Studies at a global level. These activities also aim to promote dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers, with a view in particular to strengthening the governance of European Union policies.
European Studies encompasses the study of Europe as a whole, with particular emphasis on the process of European integration at both internal and external levels. The discipline also covers the role of the EU in the age of globalization, and the promotion of active European citizenship and dialogue between citizens and cultures.
What types of activity are eligible for support?
- Teaching and research: Jean Monnet modules, chairs, and centers of excellence.
- Support for associations: Jean Monnet support for associations.
- Political debate with the academic world: Jean Monnet networks and projects.
Activities mainly consist of courses, research, conferences, networking activities and publications in the field of European studies.
Jean Monnet Module, the teaching activity chosen by UIR
A Jean Monnet Module is a short-term study program (or course) in the field of European Studies, organized by a higher education institution. Each module lasts a minimum of 40 hours per academic year, and must focus on a particular discipline of European Studies, or take a multidisciplinary approach requiring the academic contributions of several professors and experts.
The aim of the modules is to encourage research and initial teaching experience for young researchers, academics and practitioners in European affairs, to stimulate the publication and dissemination of the results of academic research, to stimulate interest in the EU and encourage the introduction of a European dimension into generally non-EU related studies, and to provide tailor-made courses on specific EU issues which will be useful in the professional lives of graduates.
For more information, visit the
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) website.
*The above information is provided by the EACEA, European Commission.
Jean Monnet Module invited to the UIR
The European Union is a leading partner of the Kingdom of Morocco, with close relations consolidated by an Advanced Status and a range of highly developed agreements and relations with complex implications and interactions. The European Union is the Kingdom's leading cooperation partner, as well as its leading trading partner, both of which are essential dimensions in the service of the most inclusive economic growth and development possible. To leverage the potential of this partnership in our country, our administrations and private sector need new expertise, new profiles capable of understanding and mastering the mechanisms of this partnership and its institutional frame of reference.
UIR's Expertises Européennes - module Jean Monnet program is the appropriate tool for us to develop, from an existing base of courses approaching European issues, an additional offer of more advanced teaching on EU law and operating mechanisms. Thanks to the flexibility of its implementation, the module makes it possible to set up these new syllabuses in several disciplines, and to reinforce academic models with more in-depth courses dedicated to the European Union.
Certain courses will be introduced into the curricula of law, political science and business bachelor's degrees, as well as into the curricula of scientific studies (engineering schools).
The aim is to consolidate the seven existing courses and introduce 5 new courses to consolidate the base of courses dedicated to the EU.
- History of European construction
- Substantive law of the European Union
- European and international competition law
- Community litigation
- Human rights law
- International trade law and practice
- EU external relations law
- International relations and EU foreign policy
- International migration and governance: a global challenge
- European business law
- International and EU industrial property law and corporate strategies
- Morocco-European Union relations
- International trade - globalization and integration
Ils nous ont visité…
"Knowledge of the European Union's political and legal system is a necessity, given the many ties that bind the Kingdom of Morocco to Europe.
With this in mind, I was invited to take part in the Erasmus Jean Monnet program at the International University of Rabat.
As such, I was able to give lectures and teach European Union law in the bachelor’s degree in business law and the Master's degree in Business Law and Taxation (Ecole de Droit) during the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years.
This pedagogical cooperation was extended by the presence of two UIR colleagues at the international colloquium at the University of Tours (November 15 and 16, 2018 on "the new European system for settling investment disputes".
In December 2019, a cooperation and mobility agreement will be signed between the University of Tours (Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences) and the International University of Rabat (Rabat Law School)."
Alain Buzelay
Professor with a PhD in Economics and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
For the past two years, the International University of Rabat has benefited from Community funding to provide a teaching module with a European focus ("Jean Monnet module").
As Professor Emeritus of the Universities, holder of a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and former head of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the European Commission, I was asked to take part in the teaching of this module.
An economist by training, having taught at the Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy, at Sciences-Po-Paris and, currently, at the UFR de Gestion of the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, I agreed to take charge of two 12-hour courses at the International University of Rabat.
The first, in the Sciences-Po Masters program, deals with major European policies and their impact on Morocco in the context of its privileged partnership with the European Union. The second, in the Business School's Master's program, deals with the impact of European integration on corporate management and restructuring.
The analysis of community integration - which I'm not limiting to the European Union - seems to me to be of the utmost importance for Morocco, for three reasons:
- It enables us to study the impact of the privileged partnership between the Kingdom and the Union - far from over - both on Morocco's monetary, trade and regional policies and on the consequences of access to the large market for businesses.
- It anticipates the expected effects of the integration initiated by Morocco with fifty-five other African countries (Continental Free Trade Area, ZLEC): an integration that should enable it to become a necessary bridge between the Union and Africa.
- In the current difficulties facing multilateralism on a global scale, it offers food for thought in managing the dualism between the need for convergence and divergence between countries.
- Our teaching, which combines theory and practice, should enable our students to acquire not only the knowledge but also the keys to a better understanding of the workings of our economies, constrained by openness and interdependence, within the framework of a University with an international outlook.
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud
Professor Emeritus, President of iReMMO (Paris)
This year (2020), I had the pleasure of lecturing for a few hours on the Middle East in a Sciences-Po Master's seminar as part of the Jean Monet program at UIR. This was a very special course, as the health situation made it impossible to be in the presence of the students. The sessions were therefore held by videoconference.
Dealing with the Middle East in a dozen hours for students with a wide range of backgrounds meant getting to the heart of the matter, and so the course had to be conceived as a broad introduction to the major issues that are tearing the region apart, both today and in the past. To better grasp them, I have chosen to approach the subject from three distinct yet complementary disciplinary angles: history, geopolitics and law.
History is obviously essential if we are to understand how the contemporary Middle East emerged from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the partitioning of the region by the great imperial powers of the time, Great Britain and France. Hence an analysis focusing on the First World War and the early 1920s.
On the geopolitical level, beyond the multiple configurations at work in different periods, there are some fundamental data that are still present as unresolved issues such as the relationship between the nation, the state and religious communities, the multiple forms of privatization of violence and the recurrence of foreign interventions such as that of the United States, Russia and certain European states.
Finally, the Middle East is perhaps the region of the world where the legal regulatory deficit is the greatest. UN Security Council resolutions are almost never respected, major international conventions are often marginalized, and criminal justice is ignored.
The course ended with a final session devoted to a conflict that is sometimes a little forgotten, but which nonetheless remains central: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Along with the Kurdish question, this conflict has the singular distinction of having its origins in the First World War and is therefore intrinsically linked to the emergence and history of the contemporary Middle East.
Specific Activities & Events
Conference: International Migration and Human Rights in the Mediterranean
As part of its Jean Monnet Expertises Européennes project, the UIR organized a conference on "International Migrations and Human Rights in the Mediterranean" in collaboration with the "European Parliment to Campus".
The conference was moderated by Dr. Fathallah Sijilmassi, Doctor of Economics, former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to France and former Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean / Specialist in Euro-Mediterranean issues.
It also featured the participation of Dr. Per Gahrton, Former Member of the European Parliament (Swedish Greens), Doctor in Sociology, Dr. Beatriz Mesa, Professor-Researcher at Sciences Po Rabat (UIR) and Associate Member of the Laboratory of Political Studies and Humanities (LEPOSH) of the International University of Rabat (UIR), Ms. Ana Fonseca, Head of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Morocco.
The event also featured an art exhibition entitled "En Sortant de la clandestinité", by Cameroonian painter Gibril DIFFO.
Forum: « Repenser l’Afrique »
As part of the Africa Forum " Repenser l’Afrique " organized by Sciences Po Rabat, a round table on "Sustainable security issues on the African continent" was organized with the participation of :
Moderators:
Mr Abdellatif BENCHERIFA
, Director of the Public Policy Center, UIR
Mr. Fathallah SIJILMASSI
, Former Ambassador & former Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Speakers :
Mr. Ismaila NIMAGA
, Ambassador of the Central African Republic in Rabat and dean of the African diplomatic corps.
Mr. Ousmane AMADOU
, Ambassador of Mali in Rabat.
Mr Salissou ADA
, Ambassador of Niger in Rabat.
Mr. Baba GARBA
, Ambassador of Nigeria in Rabat.
Mr. Mohammed Lemine OULD ABEYE
, Ambassador of Mauritania in Rabat.
Mrs. Claudia WIEDEY
, Head of the European Union Delegation in Rabat.
Mr. Juan Ignacio SELL
, Minister and Counsellor of the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, former Spanish Ambassador to South Africa.
About Jean Monnet Expertises Européennes
Introduction by Eric Yvonnet
Testimonial from Professor Buzelay
Erasmus+ National Information Day 2019
UIR presents the Jean Monnet Module activity to Moroccan academics at the 2019 National Information Day: "Erasmus+ in Morocco: looking to the future", organized by the Erasmus+ National Office Morocco in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research and the European Union Delegation in Morocco.
