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MIM, MSM sign Memorandum of Understanding
The Maastricht School of Management of the Netherlands and
the Malta Institute of Management have just signed a Memorandum
of Understanding, thus setting the ball rolling for the development
of a brand new regional MBA Programme for the Euro-Mediterranean
area.
Joe Abela Fitzpatrick, president, and George Papagiorcopulo,
honorary secretary, of the MIM held discussions in Maastricht,
with Leo Delcroix, managing director, and with Dr Jerry Huxell,
associate dean, of the MSM, on the setting up of a new MBA Programme
for the Euro-Mediterranean region. Mr Delcroix, a former Minister
of Defence of Belgium, said that MSM was pleased to sign the
document with MIM, and augured that this new joint initiative
will have as much success, as both parties were already enjoying
under present arrangements.
The Memorandum of Understanding calls on both sides to work
together to carry out a number of necessary detailed studies,
including academic and financial, as well as to establish direct
contacts with a number of education and other authorities and
third parties in countries within the Euro-Mediterranean area,
and to then set up the MBA programme. Both MSM and MIM believe
that Malta is ideally placed at the centre of the Mediterranean
to run, administer and manage this new regional MBA programme
out of Malta, and are hoping to have this up and running within
a period of 15 months.
“This is very good news for Malta and for our institute,”
Mr Abela Fitzpatrick said. “Our Institute has a long standing
relationship with MSM, which runs 65 Outreach Programmes all
over the world similar to the one that we run for them in Malta.
Yet again, MSM have reaffirmed the very high regard they have,
not only of our institute, but more importantly of our numerous
Maltese students, of their calibre and of their competencies.
“We are very proud that they continue to place us in their
Class ‘A’ category, and even more proud that as a
result of all this, they have given their full commitment and
backing to the setting up of a brand new MBA programme for the
Euro-Mediterranean area with us. These are indeed exciting times
for Malta, and for our institute. We intend to take up this
new challenge with vigour and determination, and to make sure
that this new venture will be at least as successful for MSM
and for us, as everything else we have done with MSM up until
now. This will take MIM to new horizons.”
During their visit to MSM, MIM officials also met with Prof.
Dr Luc Soete, director dean of MSM, and renewed cooperation
agreements on existing management education programmes already
running in Malta. The parties also discussed recognition by
the University of Malta, of the MBA Outreach Programme run by
MIM in Malta, which remains pending.
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