Jeddah, April28.08,
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is conducting a Workshop for its partners of the IDB Scholarship Programme for Muslim Communities in Non-Member Countries.

The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Syed Jaafar Aznan, Vice- President of IDB, A total of 73 representatives from 51 countries from 4 continents are participating in the workshop that is being held in Jeddah Inter Continental Hotel. This workshop coincides with the 25 years of the Programme implementation.

The workshop will be discussing from 27-29 April 2008, the implementation of the multi-faceted Scholarship programme, the problems being encountered, the solution to overcome them and suggest recommendations for improvement in programme implementation.

The IDB Scholarship Programme is for undergraduate studies in Science & Technology for students from Non-members Countries of the Bank. The Bank has selected more than 9000 students from 58 countries since the inception of the programme in 1983, over 5200 of them have graduated