About the project
The overall project goal is the contribution to the improvement of engineering education in Afghanistan through building partnerships between European and Asian higher education institutions.
The Asia-Link Programme was launched as initiative of the European
Union to foster networking and cooperation at regional and international
level between higher education institutions within EU member states and Asia
countries. Asia is one of the key partners for the EU from the politics,
culture as well as economic point of view. Higher education and support to
research institutes were identified as two main priorities of EU-Asia
cooperation
NEW Academic Conference: Energy Resources, Distribution and Saving
The international conference, energy resources, distribution and saving was held between April 19 and 21, 2010 in Herat-Afghanistan by participation of 160 participants. Herat Province governor Dr. M. Yusuf Nurestani, State secretary, Ministry of Higher education of Afghanistan, Dr. M. Osman Babori, Representatives of Afghanistan parliament, Chancellors of Afghanistan major universities, representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Higher Education, Energy and Water and Economy, representative of different industrial , environmental and energy institutions, around 40 academics from other Afghan universities and from abroad, have participated the conference.
- A collection of articles of the conference is available
here
- The report of Heart University on the conference (in Dari) is available
here
- The conference resolution (in Dari) is available
here
- Conference Photo gallery
Detail information can be found on the conference main page www.afgasialink.eu/ERDS
First circular of the conferece can be downloaded
here
List of currently registered participants can be found
here
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Project Background
Higher education and research institutions and universities hold an important role in society development and contribute to economic growth. International partnerships and cooperation contribute significantly to globalization, exchange of knowledge and know-how and overall development. Joint approaches with Asian institutions will strengthen EU-Asia relationship and development cooperation activities.
Education, especially engineering education is the key factor for development of Afghan society and initiating the progress in all sectors. After years of society subjection and failure of education system, human resources development in Afghanistan is one of the basic needs and priorities of the Afghan government.
This project, implemented in cooperation with several partner institutions from Europe and Asia and in full concordance with Asia-Link Program objectives and Afghan Public Investment Programme, is focusing on improving engineering education system on two selected Afghan universities. Main target groups are university staff and top student talents in technical areas as developing Afghan society calls for domestic experts and professionals.
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