The ultimate goals of the Tawasol Project is to give university students an experience within community that facilitates them to become engaged and active democratic citizens, to forge links between universities and community in the Arab World and to transform the curriculum. The Tawasol Project, Tawasol means engagement and interaction in Arabic, is in its final year of funding and can boast of many significant achievements, including the establishment and growth of service learning within the curriculum and the development of centres for civic engagement and service learning in the partner universities. Staff and students of NUI Galway have travelled extensively through Jordan and Lebanon offering training and experiences of civic engagement in Ireland. Students and staff from each of the partner universities have shared their contextual and cultural experiences of civic engagement and service learning. See more on