ROMANIAN – ALGERIAN COLLABORATION WITHIN THE ERASMUS PROGRAMME, EARTH SCIENCES 15-22 DECEMBER 2024

Abstract

The Erasmus programme, initiated and coordinated by the European Union, originally only within the EU member countries, is currently also being carried out with non-EU countries, based on interuniversity collaborations. “Erasmean” spirit advocate, the programme bears the name of Erasmus of Rotterdam, “the first to have a European conscience, the first militant pacifist, the most eloquent defender of the humanist ideal of spiritual understanding worldwide” (Zwieg, 1975). His humanist attitude and existence
are part of the 15th century of great geographical discoveries (1466 birth year) by great thinkers of philosophy. From ancient Greeks and Romans through the Renaissance to the present day, the need for spiritual understanding has known varied, sometimes confusing, meanings and applications. In this context, the Erasmus meaning of understanding between people appears today a solution to human coexistence. That is why geography, through its multidisciplinary research object, is the science that is part of universal knowledge, and the Erasmus project was adopted as a means of understanding the world. The Erasmus partnership concluded in 2019 between the University of Bucharest (Faculty of Geography) and the University of Constantine facilitated the knowledge of the various forms of education, culture and science of the two countries – Romania and Algeria.