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The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, established by the decree of the 15th April 2005 of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, delivers academic titles having a traditional value in Italy, Europe and in the Mediterranean Countries, for first-cycle (bachelor) degrees, specialization degrees (master), doctor’s degrees and master’s degrees. In the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, distinguished lecturers of important universities worldwide deliver their courses in the Internet-based real and virtual spaces in Italian, Arabic, English, and French. UNINETTUNO’s organizational structure appears as a “network” structure: a Coordination Centre and Technological Poles and Production Centres, located on the national and international territories, interconnected by computer-based networks and through transmitting and receiving satellite dishes. At present, UNINETTUNO can rely on the Technological Poles already set up in Italy as well as on the facilities and technologies of 31 Technological Poles and 9 Production centers, set up at the universities’ campuses and vocational training centers of the Med Net’U Project partners and based in 11 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area. There is a dedicated area: the Didactic Cyberspace, where teaching and learning occur in five languages: Italian, Arabic, English, French, and Greek. The Internet-based learning environment transfers directly to the student’s desk: lessons, multimedia products, databases, exercises, evaluation and self-evaluation systems, online tutoring, forums, chats, thematic wikis. The digitized video lessons are the starting-point of the learning process. Each subject is linked in a hypertextual and multimedia way to essays, books, exercise texts, virtual libraries. The applied technologies include the Internet, satellite television, and video conferencing systems. Transmitting and receiving satellite dishes allowed realizing a technological network that connects Rome International Centre with the Technological Poles located in Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean countries. Thanks to the wide-band Internet and satellite, this enables all partners to connect and share, produce, and transmit knowledge. Thanks to UNINETTUNOUNIVERSITY.TV satellite television channel, broadcasting lectures for free 24 hours a day thanks to HotBird 13° East satellite, broadcast by EUTELSAT, covering Europe’s whole territory, North Africa and the Middle East, the access to knowledge is democratized. In Italy, it is possible to watch UNINETTUNOUNIVERSITY.TV tuning into SKY 812 channel or RAI SAT 702 channel. The University research activities are aimed at developing studies on technology applied to the learning process. They involve international-level scientists, experts in different disciplines (technologists, computer scientists, experts in various languages). This research work is based on rigorous academic and experimental, pure, and applied activities. In economic terms, these results have been a starting point for developing new models for managing distance universities and new models of e-learning. With Med Net’U it was established a network of 31 universities in 11 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Area (Algeria, Egypt, France, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey). Actually, on the 29th January 2006, in the framework of the Catania 3 Conference for the realization of a “Euro-Mediterranean Area of Higher Education and Research,” 14 Ministers of Higher Education of several Mediterranean countries undersigned a joint declaration by which they stated their goal of strengthening the distance learning system of the Mediterranean countries, by expanding the results attained through the Med Net’U Project. The strength and the process of growth of UNINETTUNO are unquestionably represented by the fact that it rapidly succeeded in acquiring a significant role at the international level by concluding agreements with the countries of Europe, the United States, Latin America, China, Russia, Georgia, and Iraq. Significant agreements were undersigned with countries of the Mediterranean area, particularly Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia. View full university