Specto held the final conference of the Digital Empowerment and Entrepreneurship for Refugees (DEER) that brought together over 100 representatives of key partners, universities, NGOs, and beneficiaries on Monday 20th of February 2023. The DEER project is one of the “Bottlenecks Alleviation Program (BAP)” selected projects. BAP is implemented by Nuffic and funded by EDU-SYRIA through the European Union Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis “Madad”. The overall objective o...

The Technical Vocational Training Academy held a graduation ceremony for EDU-SYRIA beneficiaries of the Vocational Diploma in Hybrid and Electrical Cars (HE Cars) on Thursday 16th of February 2023. The HE Cars training diploma course provided the beneficiaries with the skills required to maintain Electric and Hybrid vehicles and training encompassing all aspects of working in vehicle maintenance including safety and professional development. A virtual learning portal was also developed that...

EDU-SYRIA students of the Bachelor Scholarship Program (BSP) at Zarqa University, Tasneem Halawani and Shaimaa Al-Asimi from the College of Technology Engineering, Department of Architecture won the first place in The Community Innovation Challenge: The Inclusive Early Education Hackathon on Sunday 12th of February 2023. The Community Innovation Challenge: The Inclusive Early Education Hackathon was organized by Leaders of Tommorow in partnership with Early Childhood Education for Jorda...

Zarqa University hosted an information session of the "Japanese Initiative for the Future of Syrian Refugees (JISR)" at the academic corner designated for EDU-SYRIA beneficiaries at Zarqa University on Monday 06th of February 2023. A total of 50 EDU-SYRIA students attended the information session presented by Nozomi Ohashi and Rawan Salhi. Ms. Salehi provided a thorough description of the Japanese scholarship and the application process that would be useful for students who deemed eligible t...

The “Japanese Initiative for the future of Syrian Refugees (JISR)” offers scholarships for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon to complete their master’s degree in Japanese universities. Applicants need to send their application online by Friday, 10th of March 2023. Application link available in the Application Guidelines: https://www.jica.go.jp/syria/english/office/others/c8h0vm0000ahd5fa-att/guidelines.pdf More information on the scholarship and the eligibility criteria is availabl...

EDU-SYRIA held the Ninth Consortium Management Meeting at Jordan University of Science & Technology on 26th of January 2023. The meeting was attended by EDU-SYRIA management team, the EU representative and the project partners of ZU, LTUC, QRTA and DAAD. Throughout the meeting, an update on EDU-SYRIA project was presented. EDU-SYRIA contribution to the Study and Career Opportunities Virtual Fair and EDU-SYRIA Beneficiaries Satisfaction Survey were introduced. Moreover, the partners prese...

Manara held an online introductory session on Wednesday 25th of January 2023 to introduce their job program's procedures to EDU-SYRIA beneficiaries of software engineering and computer science backgrounds. The session was followed with Q&A to clarify the inquiries of the beneficiaries. It is worth mentioning that Manara is a bridge between top computer scientists from the Middle East & North Africa and their dream jobs with 90% employment rate. The link to ...

Amman - EDU-SYRIA Scholarship Program, funded by the European Union and managed by the German Jordanian University, celebrated on Thursday 19th of January 2023, the achievements of 76 vulnerable Jordanians who successfully completed the Teacher Education Professional Diploma (TEPD) at Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA) on the academic year 2021-2022. The ceremony was to celebrate the second cohort of the Teacher Certificate Scholarship Program (TCSP) granted by EDU-SYRIA and was attended by ...

Zarqa University hosted an information session by the leading business accelerator & seed investor Luminus Jordan Start to introduce the Entrepreneurship Training Scholarship Program (ETSP) provided by EDU-SYRIA for Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians to turn ideas into actual businesses on Thursday 1st of December 2022. The information session was moderated by Ms. Anwar Bani Amer, the Outreach Officer at Luminus Jordan Start) and attended by Mr. Ibrahim Al-Hariri, the Academ...