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The Alexandria Centre for Maritime Archaeology & Underwater Cultural Heritage
Background
In 2009 the Alexandria Centre for Maritime Archaeology & Underwater
Cultural Heritage was established as a European Union project under
the EU-Tempus III Programme. The project aimed to
create a
specialized centre for postgraduate studies which provides education
and training at different levels in aspects of maritime and
underwater archaeology, and to develop a postgraduate Diploma and
Master programmes in Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural
Heritage, designed and structured in accordance with EU standards.
The EU Tempus programme supports the modernisation of higher
education, mainly through university cooperation projects,
therefore, the centre was created through
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The consortium institutions are:
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The University of
Southampton–UK |
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The Nautical Archaeology
Society – UK |
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The Arab Academy for Science,
Technology & Maritime Transport - Egypt |
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The Supreme Council of
Antiquities – Egypt
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6 - Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines –
France |
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7 - The University of
Ulster- UK |
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8 - l'Université
de Provence – France |
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In addition to the
funding provided by the EU-Tempus programme, the creation of the
centre was supported by generous donations from:
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Mr. Youssef Loutfy Mansour –
Chairman of the Mansour Group of Companies  |
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Institute of Nautical Archaeology |
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