Palermo University on Tuesday scrapped
its Erasmus schemes with Israel as part of moves to sever ties
with the Jewish State over its campaign in Gaza.
The academic senate of the University of Palermo has decided to
suspend the Erasmus agreements with Israeli universities due to
"the lack of essential security guarantees to which those
involved in the cooperation partnerships would be exposed in
this particular and delicate moment of international crisis", it
said.
The Erasmus agreements in question also concern universities in
Algeria, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Ukraine, South Africa and
Tunisia.
Furthermore, the academic senate decided to launch transparent
procedures on research relations "for the elaboration of an ad
hoc regulation on dual use (technology), which should be
finalised by the summer break".
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