CULTURAL CO-OPERATION FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT 
BETWEEN UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO 
AND
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The Rector of the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Prof. Roberto Lagalla, and the Rector of the                  .............................................................................................................envisage in cultural and scientific relations among universities a necessary and important tool for mutual understanding of cultures and for the advancement of knowledge and its dissemination.
According to this belief and in the areas deemed of mutual interest for prospective co-operations, the parties intend therefore to foster one or more of the following actions which will be regulated from time to time in separate and more specific agreements. The content of this agreement shall be considered by each party as a declaration of intents which commits the parties exclusively for those initiatives agreed in the specific agreements.
Among the possible actions they agree on:

1.    The co-operation in common research projects which shall imply:
1.1.   the mobility of researchers and teachers of both Institutions;
1.2.   the   mobility   of   young   researchers,   eventually  granted,  involved  in  post-graduate 
         programmes;
1.3.   the exchange of scientific material.

2.    The co-operation in the study programmes of the students enrolled in both Institutions which 
       shall imply:
       2.1.   the  mobility  of  students  for  periods  of one semester at least, according to a plan which 
                shall  specify  the  number  of  students,   temporary  enrolment  procedures  and  financial  
                conditions,   the possible  grants,   the guarantee  of allocation, transfer  and recognition of  
                academic credits;
2.2.   the mobility of teachers in the framework of agreed training projects;
2.3.   the drawing up of common study programmes aiming at joint degrees.

3.    The joint participation:
3.1.   in programmes promoted by the European Commission or by other bodies or foundations;
       3.2.   in the co-ordination of proposals directed to  the acquisition  of funds for the realisation of 
                structures and for the implementation of research and/or training projects.

This agreement shall be in force for three years once signed by both parties. It will be automatically renewed for three years more on the basis of a general evaluation of the agreement. The parties shall notice the intention to withdraw three months before the expiry of the agreement. 
The terms and conditions of this agreement, as well as those of the specific agreements related to it, must conform to the laws and statutes regulating both Institutions. The parties will not be obliged to respect those commitments resulting from the specific agreements which could contravene this principle. 
This agreement is written in Italian and English.
All misinterpretations will be settled by mutual assent. 
Specific agreements, although signed by decentralised bodies, shall refer to this framework agreement.

                The Rector                                         		                The Rector 
  Università degli studi di Palermo                                     ................................................................

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