This came at the conclusion of a joint meeting held here on Thursday between the team of the WB mission and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in presence of the Director of the project, to review the progress in the project.

The grant will be devoted for equipping labs in some of the scientific and technical programs that will be implemented within the project, bringing the total grants offered by the WB for the project to US$ 16 million.

In the meeting, the two sides reviewed the achievements made by the project, as well as discuss the problems facing the implementation and how to overcome them.