IDEAL TEMPUS project update

Dr. Walid  Meouche and Mr. Hadi Matar participated on November 13 and 14, 2014, at the University of Alicante, Spain, in the second annual meeting of the IDEAL  Tempus Project.  The meeting discussed the key points of the developments in the IDEAL project over the past year and laid out the expectations and plans for the upcoming year including the IDEAL guidebook for research administration in higher education institutions and the IDEAL network/professional association.  The IDEAL project was established as a TEMPUS project with the main objective of supporting partner universities in Lebanon towards the creation and operation of Research offices within each university and eventually founding the conditions that allow for the potential of advanced research projects in Lebanon