Supported by ERASMUS+ programme (Key Action2 – Capacity building for Higher education-CBHE), Islamic University of Gaza , in cooperation with local Palestinian universities, conducted the project of Developing Business and Economic Research Centers Capacity at Palestinian Higher Education Institutions (BERC), on Monday and Tuesday, March 21-22, 2016.
BERC project aims at achieving a positive atmosphere for researchers so that they can conduct high quality research and provide international journals with scientific publications that meet international standards.
The project consortium constitutes 9 universities distributed among Palestine (5 universities) and the EU countries (4 universities) and the associated partner is AQAC
Project European partners includes: University of Huddersfield – UK; University of Almería- Spain; University of L’Aquila- Italy and KTH Royal Institute of Technology- Sweden.
While the Palestinian partners are: The Islamic University of Gaza- IUG, Coordinating organization; Al-Azhar University (AUG); Birzeit University (BZU);University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) and Al- Quds Open University (QOU).
The project spans over a three-year period from 2016 to 2019.