Green IT

Green IT - Green IT for the benefit of the civil society

Global programme: Erasmus Mundus
Specific programme: Action 2
Project number: 37227-1-2012-1-ES-ERA Mundus EMA 21
Duration: 48 Months (15.07.2012 - 14.07.2016)
Project Manager: Universidade de Vigo
UNINETTUNO Scientific Leader: Prof. Maria Amata Garito
UNINETTUNO Project Manager: Dott. Dario Assante
Website: http://www.emundusgreenit.uvigo.es/

Description

Green computing or Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It spans a number of focus areas and activities, including design for environmental sustainability; energy-efficient computing; power management; environment-related risk mitigation; use of renewable energy sources; and eco-labeling of IT products. In a broader view, Green IT tries to convert IT infrastructure in a Green support for the environment but also for the society, that is, to use green IT not only for minimizing the environmental impact but also to maximizing the social benefits (more social & environmental responsibility in the IT industries).

The Erasmus Mundus project "GreenIT" aims to establish a mobility network around Green IT, which involves 10 European partners on the one side and 10 Arab countries partners in the other side. The Arab HEIs are 2 from Tunisia, 3 from Morocco, 2 from Algeria and 3 from Egypt. The action wishes to put special emphasis in dissemination in Libya to attract mobilities from this country, especially for students in vulnerable situations.

In total, there are 185 mobility flows: 71 BA, 46 MA, 22 PhD, 18 post-docs, and 28 staff mobilities. 22 mobility flows will come from Algeria, 31 from Egypt, 3 from Libya, 40 from Morocco, 39 from Tunisia, 50 from the EU.

Objectives

This mobility plan focus on improving Education, Research and Innovation in North African Countries with a 2-fold objective:

1. Economic Development: improving technological transfer & innovation, reinforcing employability and access to global marketplace in the Green-IT area.

2. Social Development: promoting equal training opportunities (specially for women), improving governance & social inclusion.

UNINETTUNO Role

Uninettuno, as partner of the project, entertains students, Post-doc and Teachers of the Tunisine, Moroccan, Egyptian and Algerian Universities in its center in Rome, for cultural exchanges finalized to carrying out didactic activity and research. Moreover the students and the teachers of the athenaeum can approach the Universities partners for periods of study and research.

Partners

Partners	Country	Contacts	Web
6 th October Investors Association	Egypt	Contacts	Web
Abdelmaled Esaâdi University	Morocco	Contacts	Web
Associacao parque de ciencia e tecnologia de almada/setubal-madan	Portugal	Contacts	Web
Association Marocaine pour la Protection du Littoral et Développement Durable (AMPLDD)	Morocco	Contacts	Web
Bordeaux 1 University	France	Contacts	Web
Cairo University	Egypt	Contacts	Web
Carlos III University of Madrid	Spain	Contacts	Web
CYNAPSYS Software Enterprise	Tunisia	Contacts	Web
Externaliza	Spain	Contacts	Web
Future University	Egypt	Contacts	Web
GEG – Gabinete de Estruturas e Geotecnia	Portugal	Contacts	Web
Gradiant	Spain	Contacts	Web
GreenTIC	Morocco	Contacts	Web
Hamburg University of Technology	Germany	Contacts	Web
Ibn Tofail University	Morocco	Contacts	Web
International Telematic University UNINETTUNO	Italy	Contacts	Web
Lodz University of Technology	Poland	Contacts	Web
Polytechnic of Milan	Italy	Contacts	Web
SocialWare Lab	Spain	Contacts	Web
Telecom SudParis	France	Contacts	Web
Universidade de Vigo	Spain	Contacts	Web
University Abderrahmane MIRA of Béjaïa	Algérie	Contacts	Web
University Hassan II Casablanca	Morocco	Contacts	Web
University M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdes	Algérie	Contacts	Web
University of Beni-Suef	Egypt	Contacts	Web
University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy – Sofia	Bulgaria	Contacts	Web
University of Monastir	Tunisia	Contacts	Web
University of Porto	Portugal	Contacts	Web
University of Sfax	Tunisia	Contacts	Web