"In Palestine, the undergraduate students encounter several problems to initiate their own businesses even they have several skills in IT tools. This returns to the traditional methods adopted in teaching IT courses that don’t contain innovative orientation methods. The current teaching methodologies concentrate more on how to use the tool but for which purposes it could be used for. These traditional teaching ways used in universities create a systematic traditional way of thinking which consequently makes graduates only seeking for jobs and ignoring creating their own jobs.Thus, there are needs to develop academic IT programs that respond to the needs of the lifelong profession, and to establishing academic-official-professional partnership to develop a vision for career-oriented education.This project aims to develop the curricula of IT programs in the Palestinian universities. This development will enhance the teaching methodologies among teaching of IT courses that will consequently influence the students' ability to use the IT tools. The project will contribute in developing of networked and specialized centers of competences for technology enhanced learning that help IT and non-IT graduates to improve them in innovative and creative thinking. Furthermore, the project will not only results a teaching material, but it will help in creation of a IT specialized portal that exchange the experience, teaching methods, and success stories among the students and the teaching in IT departments.The project belongs to ""Developing the Higher Education sector within society"" which include the following National Priorities as defined by the Palestinian Minister of Education and Higher Education in PS: • Development of partnerships with enterprises.• Knowledge triangle: education-innovation-research.• Development of lifelong learning in society at large.The project set these priorities as a domain to enhance the graduates' thinking to be more reliable and productive."

The MERID project (Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue) proposes a comprehensive action to intensify and encourage research and innovation cooperation between the EU and the Middle East region, directly involving partners from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, directly involving partners from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. The project intends to build upon the experience carried out in countries of the region that have already participated in the previous framework programmes, and therefore are at a relatively advanced stage of research cooperation with Europe, like Egypt and Jordan. Attention is paid to calibrating in the most appropriate way the intervention logic of the project, adapting actions to the specific needs of the target countries and their research constituencies. The needs of Iran and Iraq will for sure prove different from those of countries where cooperation with the EU has a proven track record behind. The project is the first attempt to systematise support to the policy dialogue and involvement of research communities of Iran and Iraq in the H2020 programme, as well as an initiative that seeks to give continuity to collaboration frameworks already established between the EU and Middle East countries. The project has high potential to deliver long-lasting impact and structuring effects on cooperation between the EU and the Middle East region. It focuses on enhancing direct cooperation among researchers and on laying or consolidating preconditions, in the region, fostering joint research projects and initiatives with the EU, establishing optimal framework conditions for international cooperation and increasing coordination between policies and programmes. These objectives will be achieved through series of different on-line and in-person activities, among which are meetings of researchers, brokerage events, info-days, training and coaching, webinars and other tools, relevant for this project proposals.

The main idea of the project is to increase the conformance of Palestinian academia outcomes and the Palestinian rehabilitation service providers’ capabilities towards localising rehab technology. There is a gap between academia and the professional rehab sector needs. Despite that, there is an increasing number of researchers and students interested in rehab technology applications opposed by an increasing numbers of physically disabled Palestinian people due to wars. Given the lack of expertise, and proper course materials and curricula; researchers’ and students’ attempts to join the rehab technology field remain individual and unorganised. Lack of equipment to deliver rehab technology courses is a main obstacle to localise it. Project addressed problems; - Little professional rehab technology knowledge available amongst academics, therefore little guidance to students - Absence of advanced courses related to rehab technology from academic curricula - Absence of modern lab facilities to deliver related rehab technology skills - Little interest in investment in the rehab technology solutions and projects.The project’s impacts; - Development of rehab technology courses and improve academic programs at partner universities according to EU standards - Training of academics, rehab professionals and students in the field of rehab technology - Curricula development of three academic programs at the Palestinian partner universities - Establishment of one rehab engineering lab at one of the partner universities and make it accessible to students from other partner universities - Establishment of one rehab treatment and training lab at partner rehab service provider and make it accessible to partner universities - Enhanced practical performance of academics, professionals and students in the rehab technology and sciences field and applications - Enhanced networking between higher education sector and the rehab technology sector on the nationally and internationally

While scientific research and associated development in Palestine have gained considerable attention in the past few years, access to research outputs in PS HEIs has been severely limited due to a lack of technical infrastructure, staff capabilities and financial resources to support effective outputs management and sharing. Such limited access hinders PS HEIs’ ability to raise the profile of research conducted in their institutions and to integrate it into the international knowledge pool, therefore, providing greater access to the research held in PS HEIs has become a national priority in recent years. The ROMOR Project aimed over the course of three years to build capacity in research output management in four leading PS HEIs by establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories and associated support services. This involved training to establish, implement, populate and manage the repositories. Learning outcomes from these training activities were shared and disseminated in a variety of ways to assist other PS institutions in setting up and managing their own repositories. This project aimed to improve not only the visibility and the management of scientific research, but also to support the advocacy in support of open access to research outputs and to foster scholarly communication and coordination between PS HEIs. The project comprised 4 PS HEIs (IUG, BZU, QOU, and KAD) and 4 EU HEIs (TUWIEN, PARMA, BU, and GLA). IUG was the coordinator of the Project.

This eMWRE project aims at improving the existing MSc curricula in partner universities and develop eLearning curriculum for the eMaster program in water resources engineering to equip future professionals and scientists in Partner countries with the technical and managerial knowledge and skills they need to solve the current and future water challenges using innovative solutions. The project also aims at developing an eLearning platform to promote joint research, develop and educate on Open Source Software and Open Access data for Integrated Water Resources Management.The major outcomes of eMWRE are the development of an eLearning MSc. program in Water Resources Engineering (WRE), a set of professional eTraining modules and eLearning platform for water resources management and open software tools. The master programme will be implemented in the four Partners universities, where the curriculum, eCourses, and eTraining modules will be developed jointly by the project consortium. The project will contribute to the capacity development of water sector and open education in partners countries to advance their economy and social welfare. At the same time, aim of the project is to promote socially-equitable and gender-balanced access to education.Graduates of the eMSc program and professionals enrolled in the training modules will have acquired a comprehensive knowledge to successfully plan, design, operate and manage water resources projects; and advice and support authorities in decision-making and the development of policies and regulations that enhance the sustainable use and re-use of water, the equitable distribution and the conservation of the local, regional and global water resources using the latest technologies. The eLearning platform will be developed using emerging facilities and technologies for cloud computing to provide easy access and easy use to data and open source software, courses and training materials for water resources applications.