The project objectives -to contribute to the challenges proposed in the TCs’ plans of development and National Indicative Plans; -to contribute to the resolution of problems resulting from the geographical proximity of the countries involved; -to promote the design of joint degrees and the emergence of new ones in the TCs. The objectives will be achieved by upgrading the TCs human resources firstly in some of the technological and industrial common fields of interest for both Mediterranean shores –Mediterranean naval&maritime technology, the agro-food sector and the field of Economics and business (environmental studies as a transversal issue)- and secondly in the field of Political and Social sciences. The promotion of joint degrees wll be accomplished by a moblity scheme which favours the recongition of oversea studies, while allowing the complete training of students at postgraduate level in the fields which their home universities do not offer nowadays.