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EDU-SYRIA Students Win Second Place In Hult Prize

January 19, 2021

A group of EDU-SYRIA students participated in Hult Prize international at Zarqa University level, and won the second place. The students Fatima al-Rayyes, Rahma al-Masri, Ayat al-Hussein and their Jordanian colleague Malak Murshid formed the team “Passion MARF, which discussed the sustainable nutrition and food security. It is worth noting that these three students were not the only ones among our students who participated in this competition. Three other students participated in the ECO-Plant team consisting of Yazid Al Ismael, Tala Qalaia, and Muhammad Al Qadri. The Hult Prize is an annual, year-long competition that crowd-sources ideas from MBA and …

Entrepreneurship Scholarship Program

January 17, 2021

EDU-SYRIA “Entrepreneurship Training Scholarship Programme” (ETSP) in Partnership with Luminus ShamalStart aims to provide proper entrepreneurial trainings and office space for 40 groups formed of Jordanian and Syrian youths to transform their progressive ideas into actual projects that can best serve their local communities. Luminus ShamalStart offers access to a comprehensive ecosystem that incubates the groups with the necessary competencies and abilities which include office space, legal and technical support, mentorship, networking access to investors, and much more to start their own businesses with the comprehensive ecosystem that facilitates transforming their progressive ideas into businesses that can best serve their …

The instructions and Procedures for Employing Syrian Workers for the Year 2020

January 10, 2021

The Official Gazette:    (4828) The Instructions for the Conditions and Procedures for the Employment of Non-Jordanian Workers of Syrian Nationality for the year 2020. Issued in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph (A) of Article (12) of the Labor Law and its Amendments No. 8 of the Year 1996. Article (1): These instructions are called (Instructions for Conditions and Procedures for the Employment of Non-Jordanian Workers of Syrian Nationality for the year 2020.) And it is valid as of the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. Article (2): The following words and expressions wherever they appear in these instructions …

Nuffics’ EDU-SYRIA Second Newsletter

January 5, 2021

Nuffic, the Dutch organization for Internationalization in education, as part of the EDU-SYRIA III consortium, will be responsible for managing the call for proposals for local organizations to submit projects that will support the Jordanian and Syrian youth education by developing their skills and strengthen their competencies. This Nuffic EDU-SYRIA newsletter will present the program progress quarterly.

EDU-SYRIA III First Consortium Management Meeting

December 16, 2020

Amman, on December 15th, 2020, the EDU-SYRIA team held virtually the first consortium management meeting for the EDU-SYRIA III project. The meeting aims at discussing the project’s progress and opens a discussion venue among the partners. EDU-SYRIA programme manager, Dr. Dhiah Abou-Tair welcomed the the consortium partners and introduced EDU-SYRIA Management team. The GJU president and director of EDU-SYRIA programme Prof. Fayyad opened the meeting by expressing her gratitude for the team and thanking all partners for making it possible. Moreover, Dr.  Abou-Tair presented the project components, and objectives and went through the meeting agenda. The Attaché of the Regional …

Virtual Campus Tour #EU4YOUth Going Further Together!

November 25, 2020

The EU Delegation to Jordan and the EU Neighbours South project are organising a Virtual Campus Tour in Jordan on Sunday, 29 November 2020, from 9 am to 1 pm.  The event is held under the #EU4YOUth regional communication campaign framework running in seven countries of the Southern Neighborhood region. The digital event aims to increase awareness and understanding of the EU-funded cooperation projects empowering youth in different fields. As the EU invests massively to empower Jordanian youth, the event will cover three main thematic topics through panel discussions: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Green Deal Education and Scholarship Mobility Each panel …

Protracted Displacement Conference 3rd Day

November 3, 2020

The EDU-SYRIA/EDU-JORDAN program funded by the EU through the regional trust fund “Madad” in response to the Syrian crisis and managed by the German Jordanian University (GJU), co-sponsored and co-organized the third day of the virtual conference “Protracted Displacement: Hopes, Perspectives and Solutions?”, that took place On the 3rd of November 2020. The conference discussed a variety of subtopics with the participation of many Authors and Co-Authors from worldwide universities and institutions, where it had the Refugee’s current situation and circumstances as the highlight of the conference. It discussed how Syrian Refugees are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic resulting in …

EDU-SYRIA III Project Awards 651 New Scholarships

October 23, 2020

The EDU-SYRIA III program, funded by the EU through the regional trust fund “Madad” in response to the Syrian crisis and managed by the German Jordanian University, awarded 651 fully-funded scholarships for underprivileged Jordanian and Syrian refugee youths for the upcoming academic year 2020/2021. The new set os scholarships include 217 scholarships for Vocational training diploma and bridging for BA at Luminus technical University College for Syrian refugees and underprivileged Jordanians, 282 Bachelor’s Degree scholarships at Zarqa University for Syrian refugees, 113 master’s degree scholarships for Syrian refugees and underprivileged Jordanians, in addition to 39 scholarships for the Queen Rania …