The Joint Research Unit TIMES, SPACES, LANGUAGES, SOUTHERN EUROPE, MEDITERRANEA (UMR TELEMME) is one of the largest research centers of the Mediterranean House of the Humanities (MSH) and the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I).The UMR 6570 TELEMME is also a unit of the CNRS's National Institute of Sciences and Humanities.

It is currently headed by Jean-Marie Guillon, professor of contemporary history at the University of Provence.

TELEMME UMR is the only one in Humanities with guidelines relate specifically to Mediterranean Europe. Multidisciplinary, it's another to bring originality mainly geographers and historians, all specialists of the Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans through the Southern France and Italy. Its chronological range extends from medieval times to the more contemporary. Its symbol displays its fields of competence.

Host laboratory of the Doctoral School 355 "Espaces, Cultures, Societies, TELEMME is linked to the training of research at the University of Provence area Roman cultural, geographical sciences and planning, history and humanities.

In the MSH, TELEMME is involved in poles Cartomundi, Euromed, Images and sounds, and in the library in which are deposited all publications of its researchers and students they manage.