VCU International Partnership Universities

VCU Global Education Office

CIMS logoCenter for Integrative Mediterranean Studies

The Center for Integrative Mediterranean Studies is a tripartite international partnership established CIMSbetween VCU (Richmond, Va.), the University of Messina (Sicily, Italy) and the University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Spain). CIMS is a research and student/faculty exchange-based partnership with a focus on health, peace and security issues within and around the Mediterranean. CIMS consists of six specific research areas: migration, development and social policies, institutional design and democracy, integrative systems of health, cultural and religious identities, and environment. CIMS’s central office is based at the University of Messina, but each of the three partner universities has an individual CIMS infrastructure including an executive director, executive assistant and research area directors.

Faculty members and administrators from the three CIMS partner universities gathered in Cordoba, Spain for the 2011 CIMS Conference.

CIMS 2010 Conference

The Multiethnic Society: Challenges, Perspectives and Solutions for the Future
June 10-12, 2010
Messina, Italy

 

Abstracts are now being accepted for the June 2010 CIMS Conference [PDF]

For more information, please visit the conference website at www.messina2010.com.

VCU CIMS Director
John Accordino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Wilder School
Coordinator, Master of Urban and Regional Planning Program
Email: jaccordi@vcu.edu
VCU CIMS Executive Assistant
Elizabeth Hiett
Global Education Office, Partnership Universities
817 West Franklin Street, P.O. Box 843043
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3043
At the June 2010 CIMS Conference in Messina, Italy are Dr. Rao, president of VCU, Rector Tomassello of Messina and Rector Roldan-Nagueras of Cordoba.
Phone: (804) 828-6846
Fax: (804) 828-2552
Email: eihiett@vcu.edu or cims@vcu.edu