CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN,
UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE (UNIVPM)
Ancona - Italy
AND
UNIVERSITÈ DE KINSHASA (UNIKIN)
Kinshasa - RD Congo

Professor MARCO PACETTI, Rector of the "Università Politecnica delle Marche" - Ancona -Italy, authorized to draw up and sign the present document by the Academic Senate of Ancona and Professor B. LUTUTALA MUMPASI, Rector of the Université de Kinshasa, deeming the development of direct cultural and scientific co-operation to be mutually advantageous to both Institutions and in order to strengthen such co-operation, agree on the following issues :

Article 1
The co-operation shall commence in the field / s of:
a) exchange of teachers, researchers and technical personnel for workshops, seminars, conferences and common research ;
b) exchange of students within integrated study programmes ;
e) exchange of information, documentation and scientific publications ;
d) use of complex technical scientific apparatuses.

Article 2  
The medical insurance for mobility students and researchers will be provided according to the current norms of the host country. In case there are no international agreements for medical insurance the visiting person can provide for a medical insurance policy by him/herself or have it isuued by the sending instituition.

Article 3
Each strutture will elect his own representative. The two representatives have to decide the research programme and the relative source of funding and to verify the achievement of the mentioned aims.

Article 4
The settlement of controversies concerning the interpretation and fulfilment of the agreed terms and conditìons shall be entrusted to an Arbitration Court made up of three members, two appointed respectively by each party, and the third chosen by mutual consent.

Article 5
The text of the present protocol can be modified at any time by mutual agreement between both Participants, it is valid for five years, and it shall be automatically renewed for equal periods of time.
Any modifications shall be the subject of a written communication by the interested part, observing at least a six-month notice. In case of cessation all the actions described by the present document, started but not completed, must be brought to an end.

Article 6
The agreement will be signed in two originals. Each Institution will keep a copy in original.

Date, 16 JULY 2007

The Rector of the Université de Kinshasa (UNIKIN). Kinshasa

The Rector of the Università Politecnica delle Marche - Ancona