Virtual Training courses are out!
FREE Virtual Training courses are here! Finally after several months designing and implementing this virtual training initiative, finally we can announce the launching of our FREE courses. On July 1st, we began our first edition of our FREE virtual training courses. A product designed by all FREE partners as a tool to give female academics, staff and students, the necessary training skills to reach their maximum development and increase their decision [...]
Partner Universities launch their Call
FREE Project partners recently have launched their calls for the first edition of our virtual training courses, to begin on July 2020 After several months of hard work our Partner Universities, finally can this FREE virtual training initiative, targeted towards female academics, decision makers, administrative staff and students. These courses will have no cost and will be conducted 100% through the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain), UNED's [...]
Dissemination at Damascus University
On March 8 Damascus University celebrated an academic act to disseminate FREE Project at Damascus University. Looking forward to building the capabilities of Syrian female academic students who pioneered to work in the academic field, an introductory seminar took place at Skills&Career Management Center. Dr. Abdul Salam Zidan presented an overview of FREE Project and had a very interesting discussion with the attendees about the problems they face in practicing [...]
Awareness Workshop at AIU
FREE Project was happy to chair the awareness workshop that took place to celebrate Women’s Day last March 2020 at Arab International University, AIU Echoing the principles of United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals in the 2030 Agenda, FREE Project aims at reducing the differences between men and women within the academy in Syrian universities. That is why AIU conducted an awareness workshop to celebrate Women’s Day last March 8th. During [...]
Centre MINE and FREE Project
The Lebanese University – Centre MINE conducted a coordination meeting with FREE Project on "Empowering Women” The Director of Careers, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (Centre MINE) Dr. Riyad Makdissi met with the representative of FREE Project at the Lebanese University Dr. Marie AbouJaoude to discuss a cooperation implementation plan which will integrates the dissemination of FREE project and ensuring its sustainability through a series of training and workshops. The [...]
Dissemination session at Petra University
FREE Project celebrated a Dissemination Session Organized by OFFER Office- University of Petra Pharmaceutical Centre Theatre, at Petra University in Jordania, on January 15th 2020. This act was opened by Dr. Tala S. Abuhussein, followed by the Welcoming Speech entitled "UOP’s role in Female Empowerment" on the charge of Prof. Marwan El-Muwalla. After this, several academics, including Dr. Ali Maqousi talked about the International Cooperation established through joint projects as FREE. Dr. Mohammad Al-Shunnag [...]
Conference of EADTU
FREE Project was present in the Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference of EADTU: "Blended and online education within European university networks". The Conference took place last week from October 16-18 in UNED’s Campus focusing on trends and high impact factors in the global and European higher education. In a combination of plenary keynotes by key players in higher education at institutional and policy level and parallel presentations and [...]
Second face to face meeting in the AUB
FREE Project celebrated their second face to face meeting in the American University of Beirut. The Suliman S. Olayan School of Business was the venue for the second meeting between the project’s partners. One of FREE project’s Lebanese partners, the American University of Beirut, received the project’s partners within its campus in Beirut. Steve Harvey, Dean of the OSB, offered his opening remarks and welcome to the assistants to [...]
Beirut-Lebanon Meeting
FREE Project partners will meet in Beirut-Lebanon on next September FREE Project partners will meet again in Beirut, after eight months of joint activities. Hosted by the American University of Beirut (AUB) and specifically, the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, partner institutions will socialize the outputs related to WP1 on diagnosis of the current situation of female population within partner universities in the SMR. Agreement on the next steps [...]
Field visit Jordan National Erasmus + Office
The National Erasmus+ Office in Jordan did a field monitoring of Erasmus+ CBHE Project 598524 "Female Academic Role Model Empowerment, Equality and Sustainability at Universities in Mediterranean Region: towards 2030 Agenda/FREE" The University of Petra received a delegation from the Erasmus+ Office in Jordano on Monday 15 July 2019. Attendees for the National Erasmus+ Office – Jordan were Prof. Ahmad Abu El-Haija / Director, Dr. Reem Khader / Project [...]
Dissemination Workshop
Dissemination Workshop for Female Academic Role Model Empowerment, Equality and Sustainability at Universities in Mediterranean Region: towards 2030 Agenda – FREE Arab International University conducts the first dissemination workshop for Female Academic Role Model Empowerment, Equality and Sustainability at Universities in Mediterranean Region: towards 2030 Agenda – FREE. Dr. Serene Dalati, representative of FREE Project at the Arab International University (AIU), conducted a dissemination workshop at the faculty of [...]
Kickoff Meeting
FREE Project Kickoff Meeting is held at Casa Árabe The project’s goal is to promote gender equality in the Mediterranean region through cooperation with seven Syrian, Lebanese and Jordanian universities. The project was presented by Ricardo Mairal Usón, Rector of the UNED, Ester Souto Galván, Vice-Rector of Institutional Policy and International Relations at the UNED; Eva Sánchez Martínez, the Director General for the Maghreb, Mediterranean and Near East of [...]