Cara’s Syria Programme

The page below gives a brief summary of the work of our Syria Programme (2016-2024), the most recent of our Regional Programmes which, in accordance with our Articles, "... advance education by supporting academics and their educational institutions in countries where their continuing work is at risk or compromised, to ensure that such academics and institutions can continue to fulfil their critical role as educators for the public benefit ." Much more detail on the work of the Syria Programme (SP) can be found on our special SP site here ; please note that this site is now a 'legacy site' and is no longer being updated. Cara's Syria Programme Syrian academics have for some years made up one of the largest groups being supported through our Fellowship Programme . But not everyone can, or wants to, travel so far away from their home region. For this reason, and drawing on the experience of our two earlier regional Programmes for Iraq and Zimbabwe , we launched our regionally-based Syria Programme (SP) in 2016, to provide support to Syrian academics in exile in the region around Syria, mainly in Turkey. Our SP offered a wide range of activities, all intended to help the participants to use and build on their existing skills and experience, and to develop their academic networks. At the end of August 2024, after eight busy and successful years, the main activities of the SP came to an end. Some individual activities will cont