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•2006-2007 (on Going) Badna Wattan Helo (We want a Beautiful Country): This program was developed in order to bring together children from all across Lebanon and teach them about unity, their country, and gives them a voice to share their opinions and feelings about what goes on around them. •2006-2007 Bridging National Solidarity (BNS): The purpose of the program was to connect children who were unaffected by the war with others who directly lived it. The camps were conducted in two cities in the South of Lebanon and involved up to 300 children each. Camp activities included song writing, role playing, health and environmental care, information sharing, expression through art, kite making and ended with a sleep over. •2005-2006 (ongoing) A 3-day conference on “Post Conflict Reconciliation in Lebanon” with experts from Liberia, South Africa, East Timor, Argentina, Morocco, and Lebanon discussing lessons learnt and their applicability to the Lebanese context. This project aims at developing a culture of reconciliation among the Lebanese youth and empowering those NGOs already involved in this process. The conference will result in a publication and a website on the “Living Memory” of the various Lebanese conflicts in general and the 15 year civil war. •2005-2006 (ongoing) Through the means of Bistrocracy (The Bistro of the People, SDC is launching an initiative that will foster dialogue between all the citizens of Lebanon on the issues of confessionalism and its repercussions on the citizen from a personal, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical level. •2005–2006 (Ongoing) National Initiative to Abolish Confessionalism by reviewing and amending the Lebanese Laws. The program consist of four seminars on the following subjects: 1- Political Confessionalism 2- Economic Development, Civil Society and Confessionalism 3- Public and Private Schools and confessionalism in the curriculum 4- Private Liberties and Personal Status Law (Capital Punishment, Euthanasia, Homosexuality, Abortion) The initiative will culminate in a national conference during which the proceedings will be circulated. •2005–2006 Environmental and citizenship education among high school students, school dropouts, and Palestinian youth refugees: It consists of a one-year program encompassing training of facilitators (mainly high-school students) and five outreach one-day training sessions with high school students all over Lebanon.

Mashael medical centers:
1-First Medical center was launched in January 2018 in Omariya -Zahle region Middle Bekaa.
2-Second Medical center was launched in June 2019 in Qab Elias region Middle Bekaa.
3-Third Medical center was launched in Hawech Al Harimeh–West Bekaa
MayFieldEducational Center-Al khyarah
Sheaab statistical center-Chtoura:provide a common official database for all Tafaool centers
Haqq center for :defending human rights and helping people to reach all their rights.

1- STEAM Education: Tatweer Baladna is a lead content and programs provider for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) in schools and educational institutions. We also provide TOT for educators to learn how to integrate STEAM into school curriculums.

2- Virtual Reality Training: Tatweer Baladna provides Intro to Virtual Reality program and Gamification Through VR programs.

3- Entreupact program: a two-day ideathon, where trainees will be provided with training on social entrepreneurship and ideas generation through practicing problem-solution identification which fosters an entrepreneurial mindset and gives the participants the feeling of belonging through identifying solutions to societal problems that they are facing.

4- Capacity Building: Tatweer Baladna provides organizations with the necessary managerial skills to help them excel as active organizations in the community, such as MEAL training, Proposal Writing, Purchasing and Procurement, and Impact Management.

5- Green and social entrepreneurship: Tatweer Balaldna capacitates youth with the needed entrepreneurial skills to help them navigate the social and green entrepreneurship tracks, with a focus on community engagement.

1- STEAM Education: Tatweer Baladna is a lead content and programs provider for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) in schools and educational institutions. We also provide TOT for educators to learn how to integrate STEAM into school curriculums.

2- Virtual Reality Training: Tatweer Baladna provides Intro to Virtual Reality program and Gamification Through VR programs.

3- Entreupact program: a two-day ideathon, where trainees will be provided with training on social entrepreneurship and ideas generation through practicing problem-solution identification which fosters an entrepreneurial mindset and gives the participants the feeling of belonging through identifying solutions to societal problems that they are facing.

4- Capacity Building: Tatweer Baladna provides organizations with the necessary managerial skills to help them excel as active organizations in the community, such as MEAL training, Proposal Writing, Purchasing and Procurement, and Impact Management.

5- Coding and Employability Skills Training: through our 50-hour CodePact Training Progrma, we equip youth and young professionals with the needed coding and employability skills to help them land their future tech job, or pursue their freelancing career.

Since its inception in 2009, TFL educated, provided extra-curricular activities and impacted the lives of more than 8,400 underprivileged Lebanese children as well as Palestinian and Syrian refugees. TFL believes that decreasing disparities in education leads to a more prosperous, peaceful, democratic and sustainable world. The world’s most disadvantaged students need as many leaders as possible with a vision for defying expectations. Teaching successfully in high-need communities is crucial for a lifetime of leadership and advocacy for reform and democracy worldwide.
TFL provides quality education for less privileged children by employing, training and placing Lebanon’s top-notch graduates in under-resourced schools for two consecutive years, in mission to minimize the educational gap. These ambitious fresh graduates, Fellows, from various academic backgrounds serve as full-time teachers, leaders, community ambassadors and life-coaches fighting against these inequalities throughout the region. The Fellows' efforts are far beyond basic education and teaching students lifelong skills. TFL Fellows empower their students by changing students’ mentality, expanding their visions, helping them realize their innate talents and motivating them to strive for their dreams.

Since university research support is limited to small amounts of funding and is focused on supplying seed money for small projects or start up of projects, faculty members are encouraged to contact external funding agencies and organizations.
The Office also provides a listing of funding opportunities sorted by faculty and includes such information as funding agency name, program title, program synopsis, deadline date for proposal submission, and the website link to the full description of the research program.
The listing is updated on a bi-weekly basis so faculty members are encouraged to search it regularly and if interested in applying to any program they are advised to contact OGC to double check application eligibility

Involving local communities in researching and recording their experiences, culture, and creativity, and producing learning resources.
Empowering children to do critical research and creative expression on issues that concern them, through the “young photo-journalists”, and “young film-makers” programs
Facilitating workshops and producing resources in the field of active learning and creative expression.
Hands-on creative expression workshops for children and animators in the following : media arts, drama, music, storytelling, puppets, animation and filmmaking
Developing children’s libraries and promoting active learning and creative expression
Creating networks and pooling resources.

The Environment Academy (EA) is a grassroots movement addressing urgent environmental challenges by empowering local communities on the front lines of environmental degradation to co-create solutions. By fostering deep collaboration and leveraging accountability mechanisms, we are challenging traditional power dynamics in decision-making processes, reimagining the role of science and knowledge, and promoting effective collaboration among diverse stakeholders – including state actors, private enterprises, civil society organizations, and community members – to achieve socio-ecological transformation. In the midst of Lebanon's unprecedented social, political, and economic crisis, establishing long-term mechanisms to ensure clean air, water, and soil is imperative.

The EA methodology has demonstrated success in 10 communities nationwide. In EA Cycle 1, notable achievements include engaging over 100 community members in 1.5 years of transformative action guided by multidisciplinary science, forging 22 municipal partnerships to enhance community representation in local governance, facilitating knowledge exchange through 270 sessions with 35 experts from around the world over 2 years, proposing 4 evidence-based solutions for safe water supply to authorities, deploying 150 locally built composters in households, closing and cleaning 2 open solid waste dumps along the Beirut River, planting 200 native wild fruit trees with harvest returns benefiting communities, and developing 2 community green spaces.

Currently, EA is collaborating with 12 additional communities in EA Cycle 2. The process begins with community members forming gender-balanced local teams to address environmental threats. After obtaining approval from local authorities, these teams submit applications for evaluation. A panel of around 30 local and diaspora Lebanese environmental experts review the applications, selecting approximately 10 teams to join EA in each cycle. Each team is paired with at least one expert mentor and one intern committed to collaborating intensively for at least one year. The EA process unfolds in five phases: trust-building through open discussions and site visits, evidence gathering, crowdfunding, collective implementation of solutions, and establishing structures for sustained management and growth.

The 12 projects across 11 villages include addressing various community-identified themes such as solid waste management, forest fire prevention, renewable energy systems, water resource management, green space creation, ecosystem preservation, plastic debris cleanup in rivers, and wastewater system design.

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies is involved in the management
of several political, economic and social development projects which
include the presentation of a reform proposal for new parliamentary
election law, judicial reforms, reviewing Lebanon's industrial policy,
promoting Arab youth political participation and advocacy, transitional
justice in postwar Lebanon, reform of the security sector in the MENA
region, parliamentary reform and civil society participation in the
region and media and political reforms in the Arab World. Since its
establishment ,LCPS has planned ,organized ,and implemented several
conferences ,workshops, and seminars on political ,social, and
economic issues in Lebanon It has also produced and disseminated a
wide array of books and manuscripts on the issues described above.