The Islamic University of Lebanon (IUL) is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all students, including women, throughout their academic journeys. While the university tracks various student success metrics, including graduation rates, the likelihood of graduating for women compared to men is monitored through institutional assessments and academic performance reviews.

IUL employs data analysis to monitor student progress, identify disparities, and implement strategies to ensure women have equal opportunities to succeed. This may include tracking retention rates, academic performance, and graduation rates by gender. The university aims to address any potential barriers that may affect women’s likelihood of graduating, providing additional support services as needed to help female students reach their academic goals.

Specific tracking mechanisms may include regular reviews by academic departments, as well as data collection from the student support services to measure women’s engagement and graduation success in comparison to their male counterparts. These measures are in line with IUL’s broader commitment to gender equality and ensuring that all students have access to the resources and support they need to graduate successfully.

Measurement of Students regarding their Gender:

Centers that support graduated students:

CONECTE Project – Erasmus+

« Connecting employment and education »

In the context of the double economic and health crisis in Lebanon, the European project CONECTE offers innovative solutions to support the education sector. The project is specifically intended to support Lebanese universities in their digital transition, by linking their skill supply to future jobs.

The main objective of this project is to improve the employability of students and graduates, especially in sectors and jobs affected by the digital revolution. Hence the project introduces forecasting models to anticipate the future trends in the labor market as well as the future needs for digital skills, allowing Higher Education Institutions and training centers to and to offer innovative teaching and trainings (online courses, assessment in job situations and work-based training), in order to reduce, or even fill, the digital skill-gap. Through its innovative approach, the CONECTE project enhances the information system in the Lebanese labor market and tackles the skill-shortages through a collaborative virtual learning environment (VLE). Moreover, it introduces a Lebanese framework for work-based learning, for assessment in work situation and for alternating work-study training (the French model of Alternance). It also aims to create a real synergy between the different stakeholders involved in graduate’s employability (firms, universities, guidance and innovation centers, Chamber of commerce, etc.). These networking activities are crucial to guarantee the sustainability of its achievements.

« Anticipating the needed skills in future jobs. »

The project introduces macroeconomic studies and forecast intended to anticipate future trends in the labor market in a context of digital transformation. The results of these studies will allow students and graduates to optimize their career decisions. Higher Education Institutions will also be able to strengthen their professionalizing academic environment and to adjust their skill supply to future demand. Improving the information system in the Lebanese labor market through forecasting studies would reduce the skill-gap and assist decision-makers in the definition and implementation of Active Labor Market Policies.

« Open up and learn new skills online. »

Through its virtual learning environment and laboratories, the project allows the production and sharing of innovative and online educational content, thus enhancing the dissemination of digital culture and soft skills, and matching graduates’ profiles with market needs.

« Opening the doors of the company to students, a project that alternates and connects the university to the company. »

Work-Based assessment and learning are powerful levers for improving the employability of students. Through this innovative approach, the project aims at creating solid links between the universities and firms. A Lebanese framework for work-based learning relies on skills that are produced, assessed and enriched within the work environment.

« Create an ecosystem between economic, academic and public players. »

Building a network of existing structures within universities, and including a wide range of companies and socio-economic partners, are two necessities, aiming to create an integrated ecosystem, with various synergies and multiplicator effects. Creating such an ecosystem would indeed ensure the sustainability of various capacity-building projects aimed at reducing the gap between skills supply and demand. It would also allow young people to acquire the soft skills that are most needed for their professional career.Building a network of existing structures within universities, and including a wide range of companies and socio-economic partners, are two necessities, aiming to create an integrated ecosystem, with various synergies and multiplicator effects. Creating such an ecosystem would indeed ensure the sustainability of various capacity-building projects aimed at reducing the gap between skills supply and demand. It would also allow young people to acquire the soft skills that are most needed for their professional career.

CAREER CENTER

Director’s Message

DR. RABIH JAAFAR
CAREER CENTER DIRECTOR

Being in the midst of a challenging and competitive environment, the Career Center at the Islamic University of Lebanon seeks to offer the optimum career guidance and unlimited value openings for students and graduates.

The center provides the best orientation by preparing students to tackle the “professional community”. Throughout our workshops, webinars, seminars, symposiums, and much more, practical and soft skills enhancement is achieved for the IUL community.

The center focuses as well on integrating the applicable knowledge to the theoretical one for each learner. This is realized by ensuring that each student has performed at least one professional internship during his journey at IUL.

On the other hand, the center works to tie strong networks with local and foreign companies. These companies are annually invited to a career fair aiming to gather the industry and NGOs along with our students and graduates. The career fair is considered as the first live contact between students and market representatives for most of applicants that it may bring their well-deserved opportunity.

On behalf of our center and the staff, I am pleased to welcome you anytime to benefit from the utmost experience and start founding your career. What are you waiting for?

Vision

Open and strengthen communication channels with various groups and sections of the local and external professional community.

Provide students with extensive experiences that contribute to their performance development process through sharing and capturing knowledge among faculty members and students.

Enable students to engage in the labor market.

Mission

• Encourage, train, and qualify students in order to facilitate their access to the labor market and meet its changing needs.
• Help students to understand the needs of the labor market.
• Organize annual job fairs in which local, regional, and international institutions, companies, and organizations (… NGO, IO) participate.
• Enable university students to acquire skills through providing practical experience (Internship) in the public and private sectors.
• Organize specialized courses, lectures, and workshops to qualify students to participate in the entrance exams for the public office and the liberal professions (self-employment).
• Organize specialized training courses.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION CENTER DIRECTOR

“Working with students over the past years made me realize just how much talent and creativity could go uncultivated in the absence of proper framework. Unquestionably, founding the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at the Islamic University of Lebanon serves a rather decisive and compulsory objective; an objective that nurtures the spirit of creativity nationwide and unfastens the gates to welcome innovators of tomorrow.”

Vision

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center will serve to promote the culture of innovation and to produce an entrepreneurial environment not only at the Islamic University of Lebanon but also nationwide. This would help translate the ideas of young entrepreneurs into reality, and thus create products or services of outstanding commercial value that allow the university and its students to have effective access to the labor market. It would contribute towards offering solutions to problems related to poverty, environment, technology, sustainability, and renewable resources of energy in Lebanon and the Middle East.

Mission

The Islamic University of Lebanon established the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center with the aim of:

• Developing the concept of entrepreneurship, spreading its culture, and supporting youth capabilities to achieve innovative and developmental ideas, and to help transform them into profitable and socially effective small and medium businesses.
• Enhancing job opportunities for graduates and supporting them by creating an environment for communication and interaction with companies and organizations.
• Supporting students’ technical capabilities by creating suitable training opportunities for them in the labor market and within the context of their academic education.
• Increase the spread of the concept of continuous development and its application in the work environment, and work with internal and external partners to analyze the reality, identify needs, and provide appropriate workshops and training courses.
• Celebrating the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation and joining the list of global innovators and job creators who launch the start-up and bring ideas to life.