Building Your Partners’ Network

1. Building Your Partners’ Network Dr. Nabil Ades Aleppo University nabil.ades@gmail.com SixthTEMPUS National Information Day 12/12/2010

2. Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management. JEP Project 1: Budget :

3. Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management. JEP Project 1: Partners : University of Strathclyde – Glasgow -Scotland Technical University of Munich –Germany Savoie University –Chambery France

4. Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management JEP Project 1: • Started: 2003 • Ended: 2006 • Budget : 500,000 Euro • Curriculum designed to serve the needs of Syria. • Modules of the course are prepared by the Syrian professors with collaboration of EU members • Number of students : 10-15/Year • This year (2010-2011) more than 120 students applied for the course

5. Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management JEP Project 1: History Three staff members of Aleppo University worked together for the application. We knew about Tempus only one month before the deadline 15-12-2002 The first task was to search for partners We contacted the Universities we graduated from We also contacted our Postgraduate Students in Europe

6. Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management JEP Project 1: 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

7. Project 2 SCM M030A06 SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education

8. SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education   SCM Project 2: Target Universities: Aleppo University Al-Baath University Partners : The Robert Gordon University  Middlesex University - UK eifl..net - Italy

9. SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education   SCM Project 2: • Started: 2006 • Ended: 2008 • Budget : 150,000 Euro • 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

10. SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education   SCM Project 2: • 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

11. SYReLIB : Establishing a Strategic Framework for Electronic Libraries in Syrian Higher Education   SCM Project 2: • The Robert Gorden University contacted Aleppo University for the Project • 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

12. 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

13. How to Build Your Partners’ Network Contact : People from the University that you graduated from Postgraduate Students studying abroad National Tempus Office in Your country National Tempus Office in other countries

14. Thank you for your kind attention