Innovation Entrepreneurship Training Scholarship Program (IETSP)

ETSP equips Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians to launch their own businesses, delivered by GJU’s Deanship of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship (DI-TECH) alongside a network of employers, incubators, and mentors. The program combines entrepreneurship bootcamps with business validation, incubation, mentoring, and career services, giving particular attention to home-based, small-scale, social, green, and remote-work-compatible ventures, business models well suited to the constraints many beneficiaries face.

Participants form teams that move through a structured, competitive pathway: from initial team formation and customer discovery, through business modelling, financial literacy, legal awareness, and digital marketing, to a bootcamp stage where the strongest teams advance to incubation and seed funding to launch their startups. Along the way, participants are connected with employers, investors, accelerators, alumni, and sector mentors. A newer dimension in this phase links Jordan-based beneficiaries with Syria’s emerging innovation ecosystem, building on partnerships with Syrian innovation hubs Digit and EVOTTECH to support cross-border collaboration, knowledge transfer, and eventual business expansion into the Syrian market as part of the country’s economic recovery.