Establishing a partnership between the HANDS project and Tishreen University

Establishing a partnership between the HANDS project and Tishreen University

14 May 2022 Print Copy Url

In an effort to develop the educational reality in Syria and in order to improve national expertise and make it equivalent to international expertise, a new partnership has been established between the Hands Project and Tishreen University. It is a project whose aim is to support the traditional heritage of handicrafts and help in training, design and marketing of these crafts.


This project was established with the support and funding of the European Union and Erasmus, and it has partnerships with several Arab and international universities. Among these partner universities in Syria: Tishreen University, Al-Baath University, and Al-Manara University.

And in Jordan: Zaytouna University of Jordan, Hashemite University and Jordan University of Science and Technology.


In addition to international universities and centers such as: WUSMED, Blue Room Innovation, Karmeh Design Studio.

With the aim of reviving arts and crafts by holding short and intensive courses, increasing the technical knowledge of graduates, raising their level of competence and enabling them to compete in the labor market, and contributing to transforming extensive craft knowledge into e-learning courses and media to help spread traditional craft culture within societies, as well as integrating Procedures for designing handicrafts in the educational system and applying traditional vocational training courses for students to enhance and develop their abilities, build bridges between their theoretical studies and the needs of the practical world, and provide opportunities for registered students to be creative, accepting of traditions, and ready for the labor market as competent and innovative.