08:30 – 09:30

Registration

09:30 – 10:00

Opening Session

Dr. Rami Ayoubi, Coordinator, Syria National Tempus Office.
H.E. Mr. Vassilis Bontosoglou, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Syria.
H.E. Dr. Ghias Barakat, Minister of Higher Education.

10:00 – 10:15

Break and folder contents

10:15 – 11:45

First Panel (TEMPUS IV_thirdcall)

10:15 – 10:30

Dr. Rami Ayoubi, Coordinator, Syria National Tempus Office.(Tempus in Syria)

10:30– 11:15

Mr. Klaus Haupt, Head of Unit, Tempus, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. (Tempus IV, Towards the 3ed call)

11:15 – 11:45

Discussion

11:45 – 13:45

Second Panel (How to prepare competitive projects proposals in TEMPUS IV?)

11:45 – 13:00

Ms. Monika Botz, Consultant for European Funds. (How to prepare competitive project proposals in Tempus IV?)

13:00 – 13:15

Discussion

13:15 – 13:45

Coffee Break and networking

13:45 – 14:30

Third Panel (Other EU Projects for the higher education sector in Syria)

13:45 – 13:55

Dr. Batoul Diab, Director of UHES. (Upgrading the Higher Education Sector in Syria)

13:55 – 14:05

Dr. Rand Al-Kouatly, Syrian Coordinator of EMECW. (Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window)

14:05 – 14:15

Dr. Iyad Said Darweesh, Contact Point of FP7. (Framework Programme 7)

14:15 – 14:30

Discussion

14:30 – 17:00

Fourth Panel (Practices, cooperation and priorities)

14:30 – 14:40

Dr. Talal Al-Shehabi, Tempus Project Coordinator. (Development of an M.Sc. programme in IT management in construction at Damascus University, lessons learnt)

14:40 – 14:50

Prof. Hyam Bashour,TEMPUS Project Coordinator. (Occupational Medicine Training Course, lessons learnt)

14:50 – 15:00

Prof. Peter-Wolfgang Graeber, Dresden University of Technology. (Possibilities of cooperation with German universities in water resources management: education-innovation-research and partnership with enterprise)

15:00 – 15:10

Ms. Helene Pinaud,France National Contact Point. (Possibilities of cooperation with French universities)

15:10 – 15:20

Ms. Carolina Madeleine, Project Manager, OGPI. University of Alicante, Spain. (Experiences with Tempus projects)

15:20 – 15:45

Discussion

15:45 – 17:00

Walking Lunch and networking