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The Islamic university of Gaza project titled “” Promotion of Energy- Efficient Buildings Towards Developing Sustainable Built Environment in the Gaza Strip- Palestine” submitted to APPEAR programme has been selected for funding. The project was prepared by Dr. Ahmed Muhaisen – architecture engineering department at IUG in cooperation with Vienna University of Technology in Austria. The project aims to build up the concept of energy saving buildings and to increase the use of alternative energy in buildings. This aim will be achieved through performing several activities including developing new courses at architecture engineering department, organizing training courses for engineers working at building sectors to know how to structure an ecofriendly and energy saving buildings, also organizing workshops and conferences to increase the awareness across society. The period of the project is expected to extend along two years. It is worth mentioning that the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development – Appear’ for the period 2010-2014 supports partnerships between higher education institutions in Austria and ADC key regions. The objectives are to improve the quality in teaching and research, to make the management and the administration at the involved institutions more effective and to strengthen the scientific dialogue nationally and internationally.
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