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The Learn2Volunteer mobile application, developed under the Erasmus+ funded Learn2Volunteer Reloaded project, offers young people an innovative digital space for volunteering, learning, and community engagement. Through interactive micro-learning modules, mentoring support, digital badges, and a GIS map of civic initiatives, the platform empowers youth to develop skills, access volunteering opportunities, and become active contributors to positive social change across the region.

As part of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Youth project “DEVMIGRA – Development of Mediation Skillset for Youth Workers for Migrants”, Chabibeh Sporting Club (YCSC) successfully organized a series of local workshops and training activities in Lebanon aimed at empowering youth workers and supporting the inclusion of young migrants and refugees. The DEVMIGRA project brings together partners from Spain, Jordan, Italy and Lebanon to enhance the skills of youth workers through innovative non-formal education (NFE) methodologies and practical mediation tools. The project specifically...

In 2025, the MENA region faced overlapping crises including conflict, displacement, economic collapse, disease outbreaks, and climate shocks, placing children at risk and disrupting access to services.

DEVMIGRA “Development of Mediation Skillset for Youth Workers for Migrants” – is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Youth project with the aim of empowering youth workers and young migrants through skills development, integration support, and non-formal education methodologies. The project specifically targets vulnerable young migrants and refugees aged 18–25 and seeks to strengthen the capacities of organizations and youth workers supporting them. As part of the project’s implementation, partners from 4 countries, Spain, Italy, Jordan and Lebanon, conducted national research...

Middle East and North Africa offers a comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of one of the world’s most complex and dynamic mobility landscapes where labour migration, protracted displacement, environmental stressors and socioeconomic transitions converge.

As reported on 13 February 2025: In Zamzam Camp, El Fasher city, North Darfur state, seven people were killed, including two International aid workers, and 40 injured when the RSF carried out an attack for two days on the camp and looted and burned livestock

بيروت، الإثنين ٢٥ تشرين الأول/أوكتوبر ٢٠٢١ - 

يسرّ فريق المركز الإعلان عن استمرار مركز دعم لبنان في عمله ومهمّته تحت اسمٍ جديد: مركز العلوم الاجتماعية للأبحاث التطبيقيّة.  

يأتي تغيير اسم المركز ليعكس بشكل أفضل عملَه المستمرّ الذي شهدَ توسُّعًا ونموًّا خلال ١٥ عامًا، بما يتماشى مع شعاره العلوم الاجتماعية من أجل التغيير من خلال الأبحاث التحويلية والتعاون. 

موقعنا متاح الآن على https://socialsciences-centre.org/ 

أُنشئ المركز في أعقاب الحرب الإسرائيلية على لبنان في تمّوز ٢۰۰٦ لتوثيق وتيسير مشاركة المعلومات وإدارتها، فضلًا عن تعزيز التعاون والشراكات بين مختلف الجهات الفاعلة في المجتمع المدني اللبناني...

Beirut, Monday, 25 October 2021 - 

The centre’s team is happy to announce that the work and mission undertaken by Lebanon Support, will carry on under the new name of the Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action. 

The centre is changing its name so as to better reflect its ongoing work that has been expanding and growing over the past 15 years, in line with its motto of Social Science for change achieved through transformative research and engagement.

Our website is now available on https://socialsciences-centre.org/ 

While the centre was founded, in the aftermath of the Israel July 2006 war...