The Co-operation between the University of Oslo and Palestinian Universities |
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Conference on: The Role of Higher Education in the Context of an 7-9 Nov.1996 Late in 1994, a delegation from the The objective was to prepare a substantial documentation for funding to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), to strengthen the competence and capacity building of Palestinian universities and to strengthen the institutional linkages of higher education between Twelve projects were proposed following the delegation tour, and so far four projects have been supported by NORAD: 1. Department of Special Education; a project in co-operation with 2. Department of Political Science and the Institute for Human Rights. A conference on. citizenship, democracy and human rights, in co-operation with 3. Institute for General Practice and Community Medicine. Non communicable diseases with focus on diabetes. The project, implemented in co-operation with 4. Institute for General Practice and Community Medicine. Building competence in epidemiology in The last project, devoted to Building competence in epidemiology in The The six-week course in Project Planning and Epidemiological Methods, which will be repeated annually for three years, will give basic knowledge in epidemiology to health institutions, hospitals, universities and health planners all over I will close these remarks by once again looking to the beginning of my own university. In those form formative years, in a very poor country, the university proved that academic achievements in many fields are not primarily dependent on economic resources, but are first of all a result of active and free spirits and of the willpower and energy of dedicated human beings. This spirit that ran through the new Norwegian university and its intellectual surroundings in those days were profoundly strengthened by the national political revival that took place. And the growth of the university was at the same time an important part of the whole national building process. That is also the vital role of the Palestinian universities today. |
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Co-operation between the University of Oslo and Palestinian Universities
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