Building Your Partners’ Network

Dr. Nabil Ades

nabil.ades@gmail.comAleppo University

Sixth TEMPUS National Information Day 12/12/2010

JEP Project 1: Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management.

Budget :

JEP Project 1: Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management.

University of Strathclyde – Glasgow -Scotland

Savoie University –ChamberyFrance

Partners :

Technical University of Munich –Germany

JEP Project 1: Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management

• Started: 2003• Budget : 500,000 Euro

• Number of students : 10-15/Year

• Modules of the course are prepared by the Syrian professors with collaboration of EU members

• Ended: 2006

• Curriculum designed to serve the needs of Syria.

JEP Project 1: Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management

We knew about Tempus only one month before the deadline 15-12-2002 The first task was to search for partners

Three staff members of Aleppo University worked together for the application.

We contacted the Universities we graduated from

We also contacted our Postgraduate Students in Europe

History

JEP Project 1: Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management

The three EU Universities responded positively to our call

Tempus Application form was fully written by the Syrian Team and sent to Strathclyde University for Approval

Necessary modification was applied to the form, and finally the application was printed in the UK and submitted on the last moment

SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education

Project 2SCM M030A06

SCM Project 2: SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education

Middlesex University - UK

Aleppo UniversityAl-Baath University

Target Universities:

The Robert Gordon University

eifl..net - Italy

Partners :

SCM Project 2: SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education

• Started: 2006

• Budget : 150,000 Euro• Ended: 2008

•objective of the SYReLIB project was the development of modern electronic library and information services in Aleppo University and Al Ba’ath University that could act as a model for other Syrian universities

SCM Project 2: SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education

• The initiative to apply for this project was after a presentation given for the World Bank about Aleppo University, and shown that modernizing libraries is one of the priorities of the University.• National Tempus office in Syria put a note

requesting EU universities to help in creating such a project

• A positive response from Robert Gorden University was the start for the project

SCM Project 2: SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education

• Application was created online on Tempus website

• Every member of the team used the same username and password to fill a part of the application form

• The Robert Gorden University contacted Aleppo University for the Project

• The Output of the project is creating a database for Aleppo and Al-AlBaath Universities that can be used by students and professors to search for books, theses, and articles in their libraries.

• Introducing electronic journals

• Showing the importance of having Institutional Repository in our Universities

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