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Higher Education for refugees: A necessity, not a luxury! On Thursday, April 28, 2022, In the context of the 6th Brussels Conference on supporting the future of Syria and the Region, EDU-SYRIA together with its partners DAAD, Campus France, Nuffic, and SPARK, organized a side event on the importance of higher education during and post-conflict. During the event, The Minister of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research of Jordan H.E Minister Wajih Owais explained that currently, 115,000 Syrian students are in the education system of Jordan. 5,800 are enrolled in higher education. The government of Jordan tries very hard to …

On Thursday 14 April 2022, EDU-SYRIA Programme organized an Iftar banquet for 250 students affiliated with the Program from Zarqa University and Luminus Technical University College. The Iftar banquet took place at Zarqa University in the presence of the German Jordanian University President Prof. Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli, representatives of the EU Delegation to Jordan, the Chairman of the University’s Board of Directors, and the President of Zarqa University also attended the event. The banquet included a variety of music and cultural activities by the Program’s students. The Iftar aimed at bringing together students who benefitted from the Project and all those …

On April 14th, 2022, the EDU-SYRIA team held the sixth consortium meeting for the EDU-SYRIA III project. The meeting, which is held each quarter, aims at reviewing the project’s progress and discussing the implementation of the actions. EDU-SYRIA program manager, Dr. Dhiah Abou-Tair welcomed the consortium partners and the representatives from the EU Delegation in Jordan (the educational program manager and the attaché of the regional trust fund in response to the Syrian crisis, the MADAD Fund ), then he presented an up-to-date project summary.  Moreover, the project partners presented the progress of their actions and their plans for the …

Under the patronage of the European Union ambassador to Jordan her excellency Maria Hadjitheodosiou, EDU-SYRIA / EDU-JORDAN program held the closing ceremony of the second project of the program, which is funded by the European Union through the European Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (Madad Fund), and managed by the German Jordanian University. During the ceremony, H.E. noted that education has been a priority sector of support for the EU in Jordan for more than a decade through programs such as EDU-SYRIA / EDU-JORDAN program that has become a well-known and respected brand and its scholarships …

The EDU-SYRIA/EDU-JORDAN Scholarship Programme funded by the European Union through the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (Madad Fund), and managed by the German Jordanian University and in partnership with several Jordanian and international educational institutions, has awarded 70 fully-funded scholarships for Vocational Training Diploma programms at Luminus Technical University College and Bachelor’s programms at Zarqa University, for Syrian refugees for the second semester of the academic year 2021/2022. After evaluating the total of 820 applications for the Bachelor’s scholarships and 296 for the vocational Training Diploma scholarships, and filtering out the applications that comply with the …

EDU-SYRIA, through its component “EDU-MARKET” managed by Luminus Technical University College (LTUC), has conducted three round table discussions with employers/Experts form the Jordanian labor market to present the findings of the “Jordanian Labour Market Needs” study that was conducted by the programme and published on the 25th November, 2021. These roundtables also discussed the completeness of the study plans for the selected training programs (HVAC [Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems], Electrical installation, Industrial fashion design, Computerized Decoration and Carpentry) and to take the feedback and suggestions into consideration when redesigning/delivering the training for the students to make training’s output …

EDU-SYRIA Programme, through its component “EDU-TRANS” managed by Nuffic, graduated a group of young Jordanian entrepreneurs from the Creative Design Course. The course was conducted through the project “Career Acceleration Project for Creative Designers” by the American Centre of Research (Acor), which is one of EDU-TRANS projects. This course goal is to equip a group of creative professionals with the needed tools and skills that will provide them with the chance to practice freelancing in creative design, where the course covered various design software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, computer-aided design [CAD], and portfolio design. This course …

on Wednesday, 8 December 2021, The Academic Committee of the EDU-SYRIA Program held an academic meeting with EDU-SYRIA students at Zarqa University, in two separate sessions at Zarki Auditorium. The meeting was organized by the Academic Committee: Dr. Ala’ Khalifa, EDU-SYRIA Academic supervisor, Prof. Khaled Al-Zaedeen, ZU Dean of Admission and Registration, and Mr. Ibrahim Al-Hariri, EDU-SYRIA Academic Advisor at Zarqa University, and attended by more than one hundred students from the program beneficiaries. This meeting is part of a series of activities carried out by the program in all universities and partner institutions to find out the observations of …

EDU-SYRIA/EDU-JORDAN Program, funded by the European Union through the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, “Madad”, and managed by the German Jordanian University, announces the results of the research study entitled “Jordanian Labor Market Needs“. This research study aims to identify the needs of the Jordanian labor market for jobs and the necessary skills and to evaluate employment options in the Jordanian labor market for Jordanian youth and Syrian refugees, in order to help match these needs with the technical skills that qualify university graduates from Jordanians and Syrian refugees to enter the labor market. Read or …

On Tuesday 30 November 2021, the European HOPES-LEB consortium currently formed by the DAAD, Campus France and Nuffic, the German Jordanian University and its partner institutions, and the Dutch INGO SPARK organised an online joint event entitled ‘Creating opportunities through learning – Higher Education in emergencies’. With the mandate of the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis ending in December 2021, representatives of the European Union, ministries, embassies, higher education institutions, students and key institutional stakeholders involved in tertiary education in the context of the Syria Crisis gathered to reflect on lessons learnt throughout the past …