The scientific research is one of the three pillars of the Antonine University (UA) mission, which emphasizes the development of interdisciplinary and contextualized research. Therefore, what the notions of contextualized research means for UA are:  

• The local and regional socio-cultural anchoring of the research themes;
• The public commitment to research, by the fact of considering societal needs and communicating research results to the society; and
• The attention to the societal impact of research.

The importance of this institution is to provide professional learning and produce scientific and technological knowledge.

Through this scientific knowledge, UA faculty members can work on the continuous development of their academic skills.

We aim to implement the results of scientific research into the process of university teaching and learning (transferability of knowledge produced to teaching) and into the service of the community and society (transferability of knowledge produced to society.)

The research at UA is mainly carried out by three research units, which are:

• The Telecommunications, Information and Computer Key Enabling Technologies Laboratory (TICKET Lab), associated with the Faculty of Engineering (FI).
• The Centre for Research on Musical Traditions (CRTM), associated with the Faculty of Music and Musicology (FMM).
• The Euro-Mediterranean Research Centre for Arts and Communication (CREMAC), associated with the Faculty of Information-Communication (FIC).

Functions

The Vice-Rector for Research is responsible for the following:

• The observation, regulation, and valorization of all scientific research activities at UA.
• The organization of events and publication management. Which are based on international scientific standards and are visible, both nationally and internationally.
• The elaboration of the university strategy in terms of scientific research, in a concerted manner with the research instances of UA faculties, which integrates the specific strategies of these units, this strategy is being called upon to receive the endorsement of the UA’s senior decision makers.
• The development of financial resources for scientific research at UA, including internal and external project funding and the awarding of grants to researchers and doctoral students.
• The development of print and electronic information resources, provided to UA researchers and students by the UA Library, in accordance with the scientific strategies adopted.
• The development of bridges between the UA research sector and enterprises, including the establishment of university-enterprise agreements for the supervision of PhDs and support for the setting up with UA researchers of incubators for innovative, research-related enterprises.
• The implementation of research ethics policies, in collaboration with the UA Ethics Committee and the Deans.

Related Offices

Scientific Research Council (SRC)
The Scientific Research Council (SRC) is composed of

• The UA Rector
• The Vice-Rector for Research (VRR)
• The Directors of the UA research units
• The research officers in the faculties without research units.

The SRC also welcomes, as observers (non-voting):

• The Director and Coordinator of UA Publishing
• The Director of the Library
• The Research Coordinator, who coordinates the SRC.

The Rector shall update the actual composition of the SRC at the beginning of the autumn semester of each academic year.

This instance shall ordinarily meet three times a year, under the leadership of the Rector and upon convocation by the VRR on his behalf. <,br>
It studies the documents submitted by the VRR and decides democratically (by consensus or vote) on:

• The proposed university strategy in terms of scientific research
• The annual projects of the autonomous research units of the UA
• The provisional budget of the Vice-Rector for Research
• The provisional budgets allocated to research at the UA
• The general guidelines and standards relating to scientific publications produced and edited by the UA
• The general guidelines and standards relating to scientific events organised by the UA
• The annual proposals for electronic information resources provided to UA researchers

Vice-Rectorate for Research
The Vice-Rectorate for Research is composed of the Vice-Rector for Research and the Scientific Research Council.

TICKET Laboratory
TICKET (Telecommunications, Information and Computer Key Enabling Technologies), a Research Laboratory established in the year 2009, is one of the units of research at the Antonine University.
The laboratory ensures the development and the valorization of the scientific research at UA as well as its promotion on both national and international levels. TICKET is formed of several teams consisting of researchers working in different fields of research.

The complete information will provided by the Director of the TICKET Laboratory. See: http://ticket.ua.edu.lb/

Centre for Research on Musical Traditions (CRTM)
The Center for Research on Musical Traditions (CRTM) is the research unit of the Faculty of Music and Musicology (FMM) at UA.

In 2006, this unit was founded under the original name of the Center for Musical Traditions of the Arab and Mediterranean Worlds. .

Since February 2016, this unit has adopted the name of the Center for Research on Musical Traditions. In parallel to the transformation of the Higher Institute of Music into the Faculty of Music and Musicology (FMM).

Mission
The Centre for Research on Musical Traditions (CRTM) is dedicated to the study of the monodic modal musical traditions of the Mašriq and, by extension, those of the Arab and Mediterranean worlds and related Asian cultural spheres. This study is the result of contextualized general musicological research, which is at once analytical, semiotic, anthropological and historical, and which is part of an interdisciplinary perspective, articulated in particular with cognitive research, educational sciences and artificial intelligence, cultivating excellence, in compliance with international standards, and whose results are original, relevant, peer-reviewed, effectively valued, transferable and applicable. .
The achievement of this mission is based on three institutional frameworks:

• The work in thematic teams
• The publication of the works within the Press of the Antonine University
• The organization of the International Musicological Encounters of Antonine University (RMIUA), according to a biennial rhythm.

Work in thematic teams
Four teams of researchers are formed in 2019-2020:

• The transdisciplinary team in charge of the project (receiving joint support from CNRS-L and AU, GRP 2018-2020) of cognitive psychology and neuroscience of modal monodies, led by Pr. Nidaa Abou Mrad, with the participation of Dr. Karine Abou Khaled (USJ), Dr. Bouchra Béchéalany (UL), Dr. Lina Riachy (UA), Ms. Nathalie Abou Jaoudé (doctoral student), and Ms. Carmen Saadé (doctoral student).
• The transdisciplinary team in charge of the project on digital and semiotic encoding of modal monodies (receiving joint support from CNRS-L and UA, GRP 2018-2020), set up with the TICKET laboratory, led by Dr. Talar Atéchian (TICKET), with the participation of Pr. Nidaa Abou Mrads and Dr. Sylvaine Leblond-Martin (Paris 8).
• The research team in French-speaking musicology of the musical traditions of the Arab world, within the framework of the Épistemuse IRN; team leader: Pr. Nidaa Abou Mrad; full members: Fr. Dr Toufic Maatouk, Fr. Dr Youssef Chédid; associate members: Dr Fériel Bouhadiba (Tunisia), Dr Lamia Bouhadiba (Tunisia), Dr Amer Didi; doctoral student : Mr. Mikhael Hourani.
• The research team in music education sciences, in charge of the editorial staff of the [Arabic] Journal of Musical Education Sciences (JMES): team leader: Pr. Kifah Fakhoury; full member: Dr Hayaf Yassine; associate member: Dr Bouchra Béchéalany (UL); editorial secretary of the JMES: Ms. Nathalie Abou Jaoudé.

Those teams also involve researchers from various networks, especially those of IReMus, the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Arab Academy of Music, as well as research assistants, and doctoral students co-directed by members of the CRTM and TICKET.

Publication of Musicological Works within the Press of the Antonine University
The main periodical achievements related to this mission are the publication of the Revue des Traditions Musicales (RTM, Journal of Musical Traditions) and the Journal of Musical Education Sciences, JMES, peer reviewed journals, almost exclusive in their specialization and field.

The review of The Musical Traditions Journal, the main international scientific publication of the UA, is an annual peer reviewed journal devoted to the living and/or ancient monodic modal traditions of West and Central Asia, North Africa, and medieval Europe, from a general and transdisciplinary musicological perspective, with an emphasis on musical analysis.

RTM is the result of the musicological collaboration between UA (Lebanon) and the University of Paris-Sorbonne and, more particularly, between the Centre for Research on Musical Traditions, attached to the Faculty of Music and Musicology of Antonine University, and the Musicology Research Institute (IReMus UMR 8223, France).

It is co-published by the Antonine University Editions (EUA) and Geuthner editions. It is included in the scientific databases EBSCO, RILM, and Manhal.

Editorial Board
(In alphabetical order)

Advisory Board
(In addition to the members of the Editorial Board, in alphabetical order)

• Jean During, CNRS, France
• Jean-Marc Chouvel, Paris-Sorbonne University, IReMus UMR 8223
• Jérôme Cler, Paris-Sorbonne University, IReMus UMR 8223
• Mahmoud Guettat, University of Tunis
• Xavier Hascher, University of Strasbourg
• Frédéric Lagrange, Paris-Sorbonne University
• Jean Lambert, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
• François Madurell, Paris-Sorbonne University, IReMus UMR 8223
• Dwight Reynolds, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Themes for issues up to 2019

• N° 1 – 2007 « General Musicology of Musical Traditions ».
• N° 2 – 2008 « Musicology of religious traditions ».
• N° 3 – 2009 « Melodic systems ».
• N° 4 – 2010 « A century of recordings, materials for study and transmission (1) ».
• N° 5 – 2011 « A century of recordings, materials for study and transmission (2) ».
• N° 6 – 2012 « Semiotics and psycho-cognition of modal monodies (1) ».
• N° 7 – 2013 « Semiotics and psycho-cognition of modal monodies (2) ».
• N° 8 – 2014 « Rhythms ».
• N° 9 – 2015 « Improvisation taqsīm ».
• N° 10 – 2016 « Mixes offered to Jean During ».
• N° 11 – 2017 « Perception and learning of musical traditions ».
• N° 12 – 2018 « French-speaking Musicology of the Maghreb: Mixes offered to Mahmoud Guettat ».
• N° 13 – 2019 (in press) « French-speaking Musicology of the East ».

The Arabic Journal of Music Education Sciences
The Arabic Journal of Music Education Sciences is an annual peer-reviewed scientific periodical, prepared by CRTM and published by the Press of the Antonine University in cooperation with Dar Al-Farabi.

This journal aims to develop scientific research in the field of music education sciences in the Arab world. The results of the research published in it are made available to all researchers, experts, and educators concerned.

Books
The Press of the Antonine University have published several musicological books since 2003, in particular: The International Musicological Encounters of UA.

The CRTM organizes, on a biennial basis, the International Musicological Encounters of Antonine University (RMIUA):

• 2018: 2nd international Epistémuse seminar (International Network of French-speaking musicology) "Actors and actresses of French-speaking musicology: prosopography and filiations" (in collaboration with the Institute of Research in Musicology IReMus - France, with the support of AUF and IFL), which gathered thirty researchers from seven countries.
• 2016: “9th International Musicological Encounter of Antonine University: Francophone musicology of the Orient (in collaboration with the Musicology Research Institute l'IReMus - France) and Sorbonne University (Paris IV), which gathered twenty-five researchers from six countries.
• 2015: “8th International Musicological Encounter of Antonine University: The Art of taqsīm and the Sami Chawa School (1885-1965)” (in collaboration with the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), the Arab Academy of Music and other institutions and gathered twenty-five researchers from ten countries).
• 2014: “7th International Musicological Encounter of Antonine University: Music education for Lebanon (in collaboration with the Arab Academy of Music and gathered twenty researchers from four countries).
• 2013: “6th International Musicological Encounter of Antonine University: Situation of Music in the Arab World at the dawn of the 20th Century” (in collaboration with the International Council of Traditional Music and gathered twenty researchers from eight countries).
• 30-31 May 2012: “5th International Musicological Encounter of Antonine University: Semiotics and Perception of Modal Monodies” (in collaboration with the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and the support of AUF and IFL, and gathered fifteen researchers from eight countries).
• 2 June 2011: “4th Musicological Encounter of Antonine University: Perceptive and Semantic Approaches to Modality” (in collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), Paris Ouest-Nanterre University, Oriental Landscapes Festival (Damascus), with the participation of Arab Academy of Music (League of Arab States) and gathered twelve researchers from six countries).
• 4-5 June 2010: “3rd Musicological Encounter of Antonine University (June 2010): A century of recordings, materials for study and transmission". Under the high patronage of the Lebanese Minister of National Education and Higher Education. In collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), Arab Academy of Music (League of Arab States), Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research (AMAR), and the Zaki Nassif Music Program (Faculty of Arts and Sciences - American University of Beirut), was held on June 4 and 5, 2010 at Antonine University and AMAR Foundation in Lebanon.
• 19-20 June 2006: “Music Traditions at the Crossroads of Systematics and History: Prolegomena to a General Musicology of Traditions” (in collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University).
• May 2003: “Music Education for Lebanon"(in collaboration with Arab Academy of Music).

International Networking of Research
The FMM (as well as the CRTM) is in permanent partnership (governed by agreements) with UFR of Music and Musicology of Sorbonne University, and according to an agreement of academic cooperation, this partnership has notably allowed:

• The emergence and development of the Review of Musical Traditions
• The organization of ten editions of the International Musicological Encounters of the UA
• Teaching mobility in both directions
• Student mobility

Musicology Research Institute (IReMus is the largest musicological research institute in the world), which has become a partner of the CRTM in the production of the Review of Musical Traditions and which is linked to:

• UA by a convention inherent to the IRN "Épistémuse" on French-speaking musicology;
• University of Paris 8, with which the UA has signed an agreement inherent to research on the digital encoding of modal monodies
• Arab Academy of Music (League of Arab States), with which CRTM collaborates on the production and dissemination of the [Arab] Journal of Music Education Sciences.
• Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, for the organization of colloquia and the publication of RTM
• Geuthner Publishing for the co-publishing of the RTM

The FMM intends to sign in 2020 a cooperation agreement in the field of music therapy with the University of Nantes and the Institute of Music Therapy.

The Euro-Mediterranean Research Centre for Arts and Communication (CREMAC), attached to the FIC

Mission
The mission of the Euro-Mediterranean Research Centre for Art and Communication (CREMAC) is based on a desire to position the Centre as a platform for reflection on issues related to the two shores of the Mediterranean - East and West - that are increasingly distancing themselves, and with them, the civilizations and the cultures. The themes are related to arts and communication in their close relationship as means of presence and expression; in their ideal, literary, and imaginary aspects. CREMAC's field of action is the Mediterranean region, and through it the globalized world.