While politics dominated the Syrian scene for the past 14 years, Syrian researchers and university professors are looking forward for a new era, where science prevails, after decades of ignoring the importance of this sector in the past, and the only few and insufficient steps made by the previous Syrian administration to promote education and scientific research.
Ambitious Syrian under- and post-graduate students deserve the best education and best curricula. Nonetheless, Syrian researchers at universities and research centers also deserve continuous support from the new administration, enhancing the enabling environment, including appropriate infrastructure and enabling legislative laws.
Nonetheless, it is also a mandate of expatriate Syrian researchers to give a hand, especially when all obstacles are removed. Indeed, at least hundreds of Syrian PhD holders fled Syria in the past two decades and never went back home due to many reasons, and now it is an opportunity for them to help and contribute to improving education at Syrian universities as well as supporting the research infrastructure.
This was the main aim of the higher commission for scientific research (HCSR) for organizing six Syrian expatriate researchers annual conferences in the past years. We do hope that the new Syrian administration would benefit from, and build upon, the highly professional HCSR experience, communicating with Syrian researchers abroad and paving the way for them to maximize the benefit of their thrilling efforts for promoting scientific research in the new Syria.