Sham University 2-day Science Fair

We are delighted to congratulate Sham University on its successful two-day Science Fair, showcasing dozens of theoretical and practical projects in various fields, including Mechatronics, Informatics, Agriculture, Chemistry, Political Science, and Economics. Over the course of the two days, the exhibition attracted a significant number of visitors, both official and public, including a notable attendance by female visitors, all eager to explore the students’ outputs over the past academic year. The event served as an important opportunity to generate interaction and potential collaboration with key stakeholders, including industrialists and organizations operating in the region.

This modest not-for-profit community university, with approximately 3,000 students spread across 6 faculties, was founded in 2016 in Azaz, in the non-regime NW of Syria, to help sustain access to higher education for the tens of millions of university age youths amongst the local community, and almost 3 million Syrians who have been internally displaced to the area by the ongoing conflict.

Cara is piloting a Collaborative Developmental Partnership initiative with Sham faculty, supported by a core group of faculty from the universities of Kent, Leeds and Sussex, to help Sham evidence compliance with internationally recognised HE quality standards, and support student mobility in the absence of formal institutional accreditation.