Over the past two weeks the Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS) has organized a series of virtual and in-person meetings with higher education institutions from across the region and beyond with the aim of discussing current and/ or future collaborations between the Center and these universities and colleges.

The agenda of these meetings involved for most an introduction of the Center’s profile, areas of expertise and services; discussions on current and future priorities of universities; challenges and opportunities facing the sector post the pandemic and exploring synergies and ways to either strengthen the current activities of the Center with the existing clients or establish new collaborations.

Meetings involved members of the senior management of the different institutions as well CLICKS’s management. Among meetings were meetings with:

• National University, Oman
• Community College of Qatar, Qatar
• Sohar University, Oman
• Gulf Medical University, UAE
• Ajman University, UAE
• Ada University, Azarbijan
• University of Technology Bahrain, Bahrain
• University of Tunis, Tunis
• Centrale Universit , Tunis
• The Agha Khan University, Pakistan

Within this context, Dr. Narimane Hadj-Hamou said “we are celebrating this year a decade of existence and have been privileged over the years to work with HEIs from different parts of the world. It is part of our current priorities to establish more strategic long-term partnerships with our clients that will help respond better to their needs as more time is invested in understanding their requirements, contexts, strengths and areas where we can further help them enhance. We aim to work at an extended team to our partner institutions”