Lebanese-French conference in support of women’s research

The National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR), jointly with the Dynamic Actions for Women in Research and Knowledge, DAWREK’n and the French National Center for Scientific Research, organized Les Elles de la Recherche conference supported by the French Embassy in Lebanon and the Francophone University Agency for the Orient, AUF. During the opening ceremony, the director general of NCSR, Mouin Hamzeh, stressed the importance of promoting women in research and their growing role in enhancing research and innovation in Lebanon. For her part, the representative of the French Ambassador, director of the French Institute in Beirut, Veronique Olanyon, underlined the need to support the rights of women in general and strengthen their role in sciences. The conference sessions covered several topics, namely: initiatives aimed to achieve gender equality in the country, reasons and motives for promoting the status of women in scientific research, drawbacks slowing down female researchers to attain academic promotion and fair institutional policies towards achieving equality in the field of science and research. At the end of the conference, researchers presented personal testimonies of their scientific career and how they faced challenges to achieve success in academic research. (An Nahar, September 17, 2019)