Cooperation agreement of the University of Tirana with Bar Ilan University, Israel.
UT has signed on 18.06.2021 an academic cooperation Protocol with Bar Ilan University, Israel. The protocol includes exchange of staff, academic materials, students and joint research projects, etc., and has a duration of 10 years.
On July 14, 2022, a meeting was held at the Rectorate of the University of Tirana between the rector of UT, Prof. Dr. Artan Hoxha and the Israeli delegation, headed by Robert Singer, Chairman of the Center for Jewish Influence.
The Senate of the University of Tirana in 2021 approved the definition of anti-Semitism, according to the definition made by the International Alliance for Holocaust Remembrance and the Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania: "Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which can be expressed as hatred of Jews".
The Hebrew language is an optional second language in several study programs at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Tirana.
-The forecasts of the Center for Jewish Impact (Delegation for Albania) are:
The next Balkan Forum at the University of Tirana in 2023. This forum will focus on academic studies in the Balkan region and their connection to Jewish history (before, during and after the Holocaust), as well as the connection of this topic to the manifestation modern antiseminism from an academic point of view. ??Holocaust-related solidarity between Muslims and Jews.
- Purpose:
"A country without religious prejudice": An ideal or reality? Balkan Forum 2023 It is proposed to create a program with the theme: "A country without religious prejudice": An ideal or reality? for the Balkan Forum 2023, with the theme of creating Jewish studies programs in universities across the Balkans with the full cooperation of Bar Ilan University in Israel.
The University of Tirana would serve as the host of the program, with the aim of introducing an Israeli university, such as Bar Llan, including an American partner university.
