SDG 17.2.3: IUL participates in international collaboration on gathering or measuring data for the SDGs

Islamic University of Lebanon has international agreements to collect data for the SDGs and support their achievement from the different fields where the university contributes.

Cooperation agreement with “Le Mans” university 2019

Le Mans University is committed to ensuring equality at all levels and has established a specific project to provide women with the means of taking action on gender equality.

This agreement is intended to establish, facilitate and intensify the women scientific and educational programs as well as to develop cooperation between the IUL and “Le Mans” University in the common specialties between the two establishments (sciences and techniques, engineering science, law, economics and management) in which females are underrepresented in Lebanon. Its aim is to provide an official framework for the transactions between the IUL and “Le Mans” in order to ensure the continuity of cooperative actions carried out jointly, and to contribute to the educational and scientific influence of the two partners. The technical knowledge and skills between FEMALE academics, researchers, technicians and students of both parties will best serve the common scientific interests of each institution. The two contracting establishments deploy their cooperation efforts along the FELAME research co-operation projects, training projects, student mobility programs, education and training.

Cooperation agreement with Nice University 2017

This agreement is based on the intersection of Nice university and IUL of the necessity of female empowering. Consequently, this agreement seeks to promote and encourage the cooperation between the two universities and the direct exchanges between members of their teaching staff and their Training and Research Center especially the female ones, within the framework of the provisions of this Framework Agreement.

The areas of collaboration involve:

  • The exchange of university teachers and researchers (including females) who will participate in conferences, seminars and workshops.
  • The exchange of documentation of the study programs and research information and its applications in the disciplines in which the two establishments are interested
  • The short mutual visits by members of the teaching and administrative staff (including females)
  • The joint research and applied research activities (including females)
  • Student exchanges in diploma courses, on condition that the local criteria for admission to these programs are respected (including females)
  • The partners will jointly submit requests for funds to the funding agencies to help pay for the travel and living expenses of invited professors and students participating in an exchange planned under this framework agreement (including females)

Cooperation agreement with Limoge University

Limoge is also another University which has several initiative projects and progrms to better integrate the gender dimension in the university and promote equality between women and men in the University of Limoges, on the staff side, and on the student side.

In order to facilitate and encourage cooperation and direct exchanges between members of their teaching staff and their Training and Research Centers within the scope of the provisions of this Framework Agreement, the IUL has carried out this Agreement with Limoge University under the umbrella of its efforts to promote equality and better education of women.

The Syrian private university 2018

Syrian private university is an active university at the level of support for women especially in the sense of its research activities aimed at women’s health and awareness-raising research entitled “Female medical students’ awareness, attitudes, and knowledge about early detection of breast cancer in Syrian Private University”.

The IUL and Syrian University held a cooperation agreement to jointly carry out activities aimed at developing the academic, scientific and cultural projects for the benefit of students and administrators in the two institutions to strengthen the ties of cooperation between them. The two parties shall work on cooperation in the following areas:

  • Academic and research information
  • Organizing summer training workshops for instructors (including females)
  • Achieving a full and equal partnership
  • Projects being developed from academic and administrative units (including females)
  • Participation in academic seminars and meetings (including females)
  • The two parties exchange visits of faculty members (including females) where the number, specializations, and purpose of the visit are determined in advance, and an agreement of the burdens entailed by it.
  • The two parties exchange visitors from the administrative and academic members (including females) for the purposes of training or exchanging experiences
  • The two parties exchange books, publications, scientific journals and research results in areas and languages that serve both parties

Cooperation agreement with Abu Dhabi university 2018

The Abu Dhabi university has, by its turn, many initiatives for supporting women and providing them with all the necessary means to be creative and successful as leaders. 

This agreement covers cooperation between the IUL and Abu Dhabi University and aims to promote ties between both institutions through the exchange of students, training programs, and exchange of expertise especially females. Additionally, the two parties support each other to encourage training for their students and facilitate exchange of information and networking. The parties have agreed to enter this MOU in order to provide students with more credit transfer options, enhanced learning resources and social programs. They have agreed to work together on projects that shall include but not limited to:

  • Sponsorship of students (including females)
  • Development of new academic programs
  • Exchange of students and professors (including females)
  • Students’ competition and internship placements (including females)
  • Research projects, seminars, conferences and training programs (including females)
  • Exchange of publications

Cooperation agreement with University of Islamic Denominations 2017

The University of Religions and Denominations, the first of its kind in Iran, is an offshoot of the Islamic Seminary that recognizes other religions and denominations, interacts and conducts dialogues with their followers by relying on the commonalities. The University emphasizes the research and training of specialists in order to establish human solidarity, strengthen peace, alleviate human suffering, disseminate spirituality and morality, and intelligently introduce Islam based on the teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s Progeny. Therefore, it has many programs and courses that are related to woman’s right and dignity in the Islamic and other religions and it is supportive for females’ rights.  It has a faculty named “Faculty of Women’s Studies” where course related to Women’s Studies in Islam and Iran are delivered.

The IUL and the Islamic Denominations University held an agreement to jointly carry out activities, where the objectives and areas of this cooperation are:

  • Educational and research programs
  • Exchange of students, researchers and faculty members (including females)
  • Academic scientific opportunities (including females)
  • Joint scientific conference (including females)
  • Cooperation in issuing scientific periodical books
  • Holding joint courses and workshops

Cooperation agreement with Al-Mustaqbal University college 2018

Al-Mustaqbal University College welcome students from any religions and welcome women on equal terms with man. It also carries various researches and studies related to women and their issues and health as a paper entitled “A survey study for aborted women toward cytomegalovirus and toxoplasma in Babylon City”

The IUL and Al-Mustaqbal University College held a cooperation agreement to jointly carry out activities aimed at developing the academic, scientific and cultural projects for the benefit of students and administrators (including females) in the two institutions to strengthen the ties of cooperation between them. The two parties shall work on cooperation in the following areas:

  • Academic and research information
  • Organizing summer training workshops for instructors (including females)
  • Achieving a full and equal partnership
  • Projects being developed from academic and administrative units (including females)
  • Participation in academic seminars and meetings (including females)
  • The two parties exchange visits of faculty members (including females) where the number, specializations, and purpose of the visit are determined in advance, and an agreement of the burdens entailed by it.
  • The two parties exchange visitors from the administrative and academic members (including females) for the purposes of training or exchanging experiences
  • The two parties exchange books, publications, scientific journals and research results in areas and languages that serve both parties

Cooperation agreement with Iraqian Al-Thakawat Foundation and Lebanese international academy for training and development (LIA) 2019

The LIA aims for activating the role of women in society, to become a productive and influential entity of positive change. The ′′ Let’s Be the Finest′′ initiative of the Women’s Academy has been launched at the Lebanon Academy for Training and Development. The initiative will therefore be to encourage and support women to participate actively in society in the midst of successive crises (social status, economic status, health status). They aim to make a societal change within this initiative not only in the life sphere, but a change affecting the relationships of the social species in a neighborhood. Women become actors and take leadership roles in society. LIA has also organized with the Agwan International Academy for Training and Development in Jordan, the 6th consecutive year to raise women awareness about breast cancer and Prevention.

The IUL (first party) and Iraqian Al-Thakawat Foundation for Culture, Thought and Arts (second party) in cooperation with LIA University College held a cooperation agreement to jointly carry out activities aimed at developing the academic, scientific and cultural projects for the benefit of students and administrators in the two institutions to strengthen the ties of cooperation between them.

Cooperation agreement with CLICKS

Dr. Narimane Hadj-Hamou is the female Founder and CEO of the Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS). She has been awarded under the education category at the recent Arab Women Awards ceremony which took place on the evening of the 10th of December, 2016. In her talk in this ceremony, she stated that: “I am truly honored to be considered for this prestigious award that aims at creating awareness about women achievements in a diversified range of areas including education”. Moreover, she ranked among the 200 most powerful Arab women in 2014 by Forbes magazine.

CLICKs and IUL are both leaded by females struggling for women to achieve successes and shine in the domains which are male-dominated.  Consequently, an agreement between IUL and CLICKs, were developed, in aim to develop a mutually beneficial partnership with IUL in regards to supporting the growth and development of the university, which reflects positively on its female staff and students. Moreover, it aims to support the growth and development of the IUL’s strategic priorities and in-line with the core areas of expertise of the center through the provision of capacity building opportunities and various consultancy and R&D activities. Furthermore, this agreement is to encourage the transfer of best practices and ‘know-how” to the IUL staff, especially the females.