"The ""Euro Med Youth Training and Networking Program"" project was created in continuity with the first two International Summer Universities initiated by the Aladdin Project (France) in order to train students to intercultural leadership. The International Summer University is an intensive two consecutive week program bringing together students and teachers from universities worldwide to study, research and discuss a theme from a multidisciplinary perspective. In addition to lectures, the work program includes the construction of research conducted by voluntarily multicultural student groups. Two International Summer Universities were organized before applying for the Erasmus + fund:- The International Summer School for Intercultural Leadership 2013, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 1 to July 15 2013, on ""The European experience: the world wars to reconciliation and cooperation.""- The University International Summer for Intercultural Leadership 2014, held in Berlin, Germany, from June 30 to July 12 2014, on ""Religion, Peace and Conflict in the 21st Century"".Under the project, two other Two International Summer Universities were organized in partnership with Bahcesehir University (Turkey), The School of Oriental and African Studies (UK) and the University Mohammed V (Morocco) :- The International Summer School for Intercultural Leadership 2015, held in Cappadocia, Turkey, from July 19 to August 2 2015, on the theme ""Images of Power: Truth, manipulation and intolerance""- The International Summer School for Intercultural Leadership 2016, held in Guba, Azerbaijan, from July 24 to August 5, 2016, on the theme ""Migration and the future of intercultural relations""The project ""Euro-Med Youth Training and Networking Program"" coordinated by the association Aladdin Project aims at achieving several key objectives:a) Promote intercultural learning, respect for diversity, solidarity, equal opportunities and human rights for young people;b) Contribute to personal development, socio-educational and professional youth through intensive courses and mobility projects;c) Provide young students knowledge and intercultural skills necessary to pursue a successful career within work environments increasingly connected and competitive worldwide;d) Promote entrepreneurship and foster employability and entrepreneurship (including social entrepreneurship), support (future) training course / career plans for each individual based on their personal development and professional;e) Increase cooperation and partnerships between academic worlds of business, research, and youth;f) Intensify the collaboration of universities between the two shores of the mediterranean and thus help to foster a dialogue for peace and tolerance.With a multidisciplinary approach - via intensive courses, workshops, debates, joint research projects, group activities - the program enables young students from diverse origins to be immersed every year in a dynamic academic environment which encourages dialogue, enables them to learn from each other and reflect together on complex issues relating to democracy and human rights, peace and conflict, cultural diversity, racism and discrimination. In this context, students also develop their communication skills as well as leadership, listening, interpersonal and intercultural skills by interacting with students from different cultures. The ""Euro Med Youth Training and Networking Program"" project aims to instill in these students, leaders of tomorrow, a culture of peace and respect for diversity and to gradually build a network of entrepreneurs who act in favor of social transformation and promote the values ​​of mutual respect and dialogue through civic engagement."

Marginal in the Maghreb and even more globally, camel breeding systems remain important in desert areas not only from cultural and identity perspectives but also as important economic asset. Moroccan and Algerian Sahara provinces have economic and social interests to develop these systems since this activity is likely to supply local products with a high food value and a potential value-added for the southern areas in the major consumption basins of Northern cities. The camel sector is fully in line with the territorial and economic duality, thus contributing to the reduction of observed inequalities. In this context, CAMEL-SHIELD aims at providing management solutions adapted to local conditions to improve the adaptability of livestock systems to climate change. These solutions take into account access to resources, breeding and feeding management strategies based on available resources, herd needs and characterization of camel populations, in order to manage herd demographics and to adapt products to marketing potential. The project contributes to the valorisation of traditional and new camel products insuring food and nutrition security and opens up opportunities for the valorisation of by-products. In addition, as part of an economic globalization, the project will allow an acceleration of the local, regional or international market access for products hitherto limited to their production area by the identity dimension of products with an emotional and symbolic pre-eminence. The project proposes an inter-institutional cooperation, involving development partners, academics and different stakeholders of the whole camel sector, through an interdisciplinary approach by mobilizing expertise, skills and competences. This project gives priority to the expression of the needs of the actors and the search for cultural value shared, by the promotion of values associated with camel breeding and its production.

Our project will work toward the design of sustainable, efficient and resilient biodiversity-based cereal-legume cropping systems adapted to the future challenges and constraints of Mediterranean areas with added values. This will promote the ecological intensification of production systems through the management of the functional roles of biodiversity. Using the contrasting Vicia species faba bean and common vetch as study cases, DiVicia project aims to exploit key agro-ecological functions of legumes to restore agro-biodiversity and improve sustainability and resilience of Mediterranean cereal cropping systems. The identification of a wide range of promising landraces and new productive drought-adapted genotypes of a range of Vicia species will help to implement best practices of rotations, intercropping and mix-cropping. The project consortium will make use of its multidisciplinary expertise together with stakeholders, integrating tacit and scientific knowledge to propose innovative agronomic practices, new local and drought-adapted germplasms, and tools to support farmers in such transition. This will help to define strategies to better adapt the systems to the changing context. Sustainability assessments and soil diagnoses will be performed on farm with a participatory approach. New designs and germplasms will be tested in field experiments to identify key generic rules on the functioning of biodiversity-based systems. Selection and breeding of productive drought-adapted crops will increase genetic diversity and advance the contribution of Vicia sp. to multiple ecosystem services. Tools will also be built up for prediction of soil quality and fertility, and bioeconomic analyze at farm scale. In conclusion, this program aims to develop biodiversity-based cropping systems able to cope with limited resources and environmental constrains while improving soil quality, enhancing food quality and production stability over time, and increase farmers’ income.