Building Your Partners’ Network Dr. Nabil Ades Aleppo University Sixth TEMPUS National Information Day12/12/2010

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 –Chambery France 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 This year ( ) more than 120 students applied for the course 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 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 2 SCM M030A06

SCM Project 2: SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education Middlesex University - UK Aleppo University Al-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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