The Università Mediterranea aims to be a cultural, scientific, and social hub in an economically and demographically fragile area.
Its mission is to:
· Ensure quality education, capable of reducing student dropout and migration.
· Promote advanced research oriented towards sustainability, innovation, and the needs of the Mediterranean.
· Promote development and social cohesion, acting as a driver of progress, legality, and opportunities for young people.
· Strengthen interaction with the local community by supporting businesses, institutions, and local communities.
· Attract and retain talent, both national and international, including through exchanges, quality infrastructure, and student services.
This mission is divided into four strategic areas:
Teaching
Improve the quality of education through updated courses, innovative and inclusive teaching, effective guidance, and student services. The goal is to reduce student dropout and migration, promoting university completion.
Research
Strengthen scientific and technological research by supporting interdisciplinary projects, advanced infrastructure, and participation in national and international networks. The aim is to increase competitiveness, the attractiveness of doctoral programs, and the ability to obtain funding.
Third Mission
Strengthen the University's role as a regional development actor: technology transfer, support for businesses and institutions, promotion of innovation, entrepreneurship, public engagement, and sustainability. The University actively engages with the community and the productive system.
Institutional and Management Activities
Ensure efficient, transparent, and sustainable administration. Priorities include sound financial management, building stock redevelopment, digitalization, accessibility, energy sustainability, and improved internal services.
Values
The Università Mediterranea Reggio Calabria, in accordance with the provisions of its current Statute, adopts certain values as salient elements of its institutional action, in particular:
a) promotes freedom of thought and the circulation of ideas;
b) ensures freedom of research, teaching and study, in compliance with the general principles established by the European Union, the Constitution and current legislation;
c) has scientific, didactic, organizational, financial and accounting autonomy related to the responsibility for its actions;
d) promotes actions that help overcome all forms of discrimination;
e) promotes the culture of legality;
f) promotes the right to education through actions aimed at socially vulnerable individuals;
g) develops research, training and service programs, including financial support for its activities;
h) promotes the measurement and evaluation of skills, abilities, and commitment for the recognition of merit and for the purpose of improving the University as a whole;
i) maintains an inseparable link between research and training activities;
l) guarantees the transparency of decision-making processes by ensuring the publicity of the resulting documents;
m) sets its actions based on the criteria of efficiency, effectiveness and economic sustainability.
2. The Università Mediterranea embraces the principles of open access to scientific literature and promotes the free online distribution of the results of research produced at the University, to ensure their widest possible dissemination.
3. The University adopts the Code of Ethics with the aim of establishing, in implementation and integration of current legislation, the fundamental values of the university community, as well as the acceptance of specific rules of conduct and responsibilities of individuals towards the institution.
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