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OIP Overview
The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences
has been establishing programs with internationally
renowned organizations and universities in U.S.A., U.K.
and Europe.
The objective of establishing such
programs is viewed as an important catalyst for the
strategy of advancement of science and technology
transfer to Kuwait
and the Gulf region.
In the process of strengthening its ties with the
well-known academic and scientific organizations around
the world, KFAS aimed, among other means to facilitate
the communication process between decision-makers from Kuwait amongst themselves and with
others; this practice melted the barriers for better
problem solving.
Through all the programs KFAS initiated,
the basic aim has been to provide an opportunity to
broaden and deepen the knowledge about Kuwait and the Gulf states to the world and at the same time
provide programs with new approaches; to the concerned
leaders, senior officials, academic and researchers.
Management:
Office of International Programs
(OIP) was established in 2002 to follow up, evaluate,
and maintain the execution of the different programs
KFAS has with the international universities and
academic institutions around the world, with emphasis on
the four major agreements; with Harvard University and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA; London
School of Economics & Political Science, U.K. and
Sciences Po, France.
The office looks at these four agreements as its
focal cooperative programs.
The above are supervised and maintained by advisory
committees comprising of members of KFAS Board as well
as external members and with the help of Scientific
Advisors. The
advisory committees at KFAS, and their counterparts at
the international institutions, form the advisory
council, which meets once a year to evaluate the
accomplishments and discuss the following year’s
activities.
International Programs:
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Kuwait
Program at Sciences
Po
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The
Kuwait
Programme at LSE
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Kuwait-MIT
Center
for Natural Resources and the Environment (CNRE)
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Kuwait
Program at
Harvard
University
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Harvard
Business
School
Executive Education
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Oxford
Centre for Islamic Studies
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The
Kuwait Mathematics Program at the
University
of
Cambridge
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The
Academy of
Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
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The
Abdus
Salam
International
Center
for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
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The
George
Washington
University
(The
Elliott
School
of International
Affairs)
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James Baker Institute for Public Policy and the
Chair for Arab Studies at
Rice
University
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“Do the Write Thing” Challenge Program
(Kuwait-America
Foundation)
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Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Professorship at
Gulf
University
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