The Munib R. Masri Development Foundation (the “MDF”) has launched an initiative in 2015 called the Jerusalem Endowment for Scientific Research and Quality of Education in partnership with the University of Jordan and AlQuds University.
By virtue of this initiative, the MDF has laid the cornerstone for six buildings in six Palestinian and Jordanian universities to be dedicated as scientific research centers each named “The Munib R. Masri Center for Scientific Research and Quality in Education.”
This Jerusalem Endowment fund aims to develop scientific research and raise awareness in quality of education while transforming communities from a state of knowledge consumption only to that of exporting innovation and invention. In addition, another goal behind this initiative is to encourage and foster a renewed environment that encourages scientific research and quality of education in conjunction with sustainable development in the public and private domain.
This initiative further aims to connect all Jordanian and Palestinian universities as well as other top universities in the Middle East and North Africa. MDF intends to make these scientific incubators available in all Palestinian universities.
The universities that have benefited to date from the MDF endowment initiative are:
- University of Jordan
- Alquds University
- Polytechnic University in Hebron
- Islamic University in Gaza
- Palestine University
- Palestine Technical University (Kadoorie)
