About the organization
The Lebanese Association for Scientific Research (LASeR) promotes research, and later employment opportunities, for graduate students studying pressing societal problems in Lebanon. In addition to empowering the graduates to study, pursue, and solve societal problems, LASeR aims to change the social dynamics of Lebanese society by challenging the monopoly and centralization of the education system, currently based on religious sectarianism rather than merit. LASer offer a wide range of opportunities that are otherwise inaccessible to those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. It enables these marginalized talents to be more entrepreneurial by creating an integrated system. It encourages them to be entrepreneurial by making them fund themselves and focus all their resources on solving societal problems.