The University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon (USAL) and Al-Kut University College (Iraq) signed a “memorandum of understanding and cooperation” between them, in the presence of the university's deans, a delegation from Al-Mabarrat Charitable Association, and the member of the Higher Education Council Dr. Hani Haidoura.
The agreement was concluded for the University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon by the university's president Dr. Mohammad Reda Fadlallah, and for Al-Kut University College by the chairman of the board Dr. Talib Al-Moussawi.
It set out cooperative clauses between the two sides, the most notable of which are: conducting joint research, exchanging expertise, strengthening cooperation with research and productive institutions for training and planning, and exchanging student delegations on scientific and cultural visits, in addition to the two contracting parties benefiting from the exchange of books, publications, scholarly periodicals and research results in the scientific fields, and holding joint conferences and panels and faculty fellowships.
In closing, the representatives of the two universities welcomed this agreement, affirming “that it is a positive and effective step at the level of academic and cultural cooperation between the two universities”.
