Damascus, (ST) – Damascus Chamber of Commerce (DCC) and the Higher Institute of Business Administration (HIBA) recently signed here an agreement aimed at enhancing cooperation and coordination between the business community in the city of Damascus and HIBA in order to achieve the best investment of human and material resources.
The agreement stipulates that the DCC to allow students to take advantage of the HIBA’s services, including the library, the Data Bank and the European network of business and local economic systems, legislation and information on foreign markets and providing consultancy and outputs of seminars and lectures.
The DCC and HIBA, under the agreement, to nominate coaches in the field of development of administrative, accounting skills and entrepreneurship in the case of the desire of both sides to establish training courses for students who wish from the commercial and administrative sphere in addition to the cooperation of the two teams to organize dialogue sessions on work experience.
The agreement stipulates that the Institute provides possible scientific support to foster economic business that the DCC wishes to set in the context of contractual and participatory relationship agreed upon by the two teams as well as their cooperation to create a network of electronic link to exchange available data from both parties.
The agreement provides for organizing visits for the students of the institute to the DCC to see the activities, services, departments and benefiting from the practical experiences, attending meetings of the councils when necessary to learn about the Institute’s role in the rehabilitation and preparation of students, supplement the labor market with cadres that enjoy scientific, practical and of high level through framing the academic courses, achieving integration and interaction between the two parties and bridging the gaps in the work of both of them.
The President of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce, Ghassan Qalla’, and Dean of the Higher Institute of Business Administration, Dr. Ali al Kheder signed the agreement. They confirmed the importance of this agreement to frame areas of cooperation between the two sides and connecting the outputs of education and providing services to the commercial sphere and preparing students academically and practically in the administrative, marketing and banking fields and informatics, linking research and educational activities to academic institutions with the requirements of community.
Sharif al Khatib