Lebanon and the European Union (EU) have launched a three-year partnership called IDEAL – Innovation and Development of Academic-Industry Partnerships through Efficient Research Administration in Lebanon – aimed at boosting research and development in universities.
The initiative, which is part of the EU's efforts to support the modernisation of higher education in the Middle East by enhancing collaboration, was officially launched at the American University of Beirut during a two-day meeting from 6-7 December 2012.
Funded by the EU's Tempus Programme and coordinated by the American University of Beirut (AUB), IDEAL will promote the role of higher education in development by helping universities to secure grants, manage projects and market innovative research that will enhance Lebanon’s research capacity and spur industrial innovation.
“What is important about this step is that it forges a partnership with Lebanese industrialists in order to market small-scale and larger innovations and inventions that result from research,” Fadia Homaidan, director of the office of grants and contracts at the AUB, which is leading the EU-backed project, told Al-Shorfa website.
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