15 – 18 September
Damascus University
2025 Syrian Academic Summit
Opening
Keynote
Rebuilding higher education systems: Autonomy, Integrity, and Modernization.
Academic freedom, sectoral autonomy, corruption, and governance.
Panel/Workshop
Governance and Institutional Efficiency.
Governance, bureaucracy, autonomy, and transparency.
Break
Panel/Workshop
Designing equitable and transparent admission & Infrastructure systems.
Admission (mofadaleh), infrastructure gaps, equity, and digital systems.
Keynote
Aligning HE with national development and labor market needs.
Graduate skills, employability, and Program outcomes relevance.
Panel/Workshop
Disciplinary relevance and societal impact.
Marginalised disciplines, specialization gaps, and national priorities.
Break
Panel/Workshop
Students and faculty as agents of societal transformation.
Student engagement, civic life, and faculty roles in society.
Keynote
Building a research ecosystem for national resilience and global impact.
Integration of research, innovation culture, national development.
Panel/Workshop
Barriers and bridges to research productivity.
Mentorship, research funding, collaborative research, research structures.
Break
Panel/Workshop
Designing a national strategy for science and innovation.
Transdisciplinary research, policy, national strategy, innovation priorities.
Keynote
Connecting locally, engaging globally.
Academic diaspora, international networks, regional partnerships.
Panel/Workshop
Cross-border and diaspora collaboration.
Internal collaboration, regional cooperation, diaspora engagement.
Break
Panel/Workshop
Internationalization strategy design lab.
Mobility, joint degrees, international strategy frameworks.
Networking
Keynote
Repositioning the faculty: conditions, capacities, and identity.
Faculty roles, compensation, working conditions.
Panel/Workshop
Faculty development and academic work in transition.
Capacity building, evolving academic responsibilities.
Break
Panel/Workshop
Designing faculty support systems.
Support programs, professional development, fair workload.
Keynote
From passive learning to critical engagement: reimagining pedagogy.
Critical pedagogies, curriculum reform, student-centered learning.
Panel/Workshop
Curriculum relevance and the role of assessment.
Assessment practices, curriculum responsiveness, learning outcomes.
Break
Panel/Workshop
Embedding critical pedagogy in teaching practice.
Active learning, inclusive teaching.
Networking and Dinner
Organizers
