The adapt2job approach has proven its sustainability for years and opened the Post-Pandemic-University-Kick Off with the 6th edition of the adapt2Job-2win-Training at GJU. Students from all Schools were invited to apply and 25 motivated students selected - out of a large number of applications - in order to develop together with international experts from the industry ideas for New Technologies used for Climate Protection.
Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) were the focus technologies in order to create business models for the economy of tomorrow. Scenarios and practical solutions have been developed. Internships, theses and possible jobs have been almost finally agreed upon.
The training was conducted by the experienced adapt2job team Prof. Dr. Edda Pulst (Westphalian University/a2j founder) + Dr. Markus Reifferscheid (Senior Vice President R&D at SMS group, Germany) in collaboration with business partners from Jordan and GJU’s Office for Industrial Links.
Partner company representatives came from SMS group, Wakileh Contracting, Maersk, JBS, Fine Hygienic Holding, and Taawon.
Together with the students, the adapt2job-2win-training started into the digitalized green economy. Digitalization has a huge impact on new ways of sustainable economy and can thus help to better manage scarce resources.
Possible applications and use cases were shown:
The adapt2job approach is a Solution-Learning-Method in close interaction with the market and business needs of today. It thus forms a contrast to the sequential-fact-based learning in which students reproduce facts instead.
Practical adapt2Job-input came from the teaching team, Prof. Dr. Edda Pulst and Dr. Markus Reifferscheid as well as from the distinguished partners of the - adapt2Job –Network. It represented the state-of-the-art knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things IoT) methods of interactive teaching, team work techniques as well as business communication skills.
The industry partners as SMS group and the joining adapt2job companies demonstrated their company and business models and either delivered a toolbox or a business case for the students. JBS delivered a huge variety of their IoT-/AI-solutions in the field of climate change issues as well as reference projects, which the students could use. Taawon introduced smart farming projects and potential donors, SMS defined a climate case for their workshop, Wakileh Contracting showed pending issues of their wastewater portfolio and MAERSK wanted to solve the problem of vessel loading in Aqaba port in order to save CO²-emission.
The participating students acquired an overview on applications, theory, technology and business models of IoT and AI, including related job opportunities in the field of climate change.
The four student groups developed IoT/AI-based solutions in order to meet climate change in Jordanian and German companies and prepared their projects based on the adapt2job-cases of the industry partners:
1. IDRA – Idle Time Reduction for MAERSK in Aqaba Port
2. ET – Emission Tracker for the workshop of SMS group
3. HIVE – Network for an eco-friendly unloading process in Aqaba Port.
4. GreeniT – a symbiotic collaboration opportunity for Wakileh & Taawon for the challenging waste water problems in Jordan
The Teams presented each idea to the assessing industry partners and the President of the University, Prof. Ala'aldeen Al- Halhouli. The experts from the industry provided evaluation and valuable feedback on the projects.
The 6th successful intense 2win-Training showed again the importance of adapt2job for the University. It goes along with GJU’s applied and industrial dimension in order to prepare students for the challenges of the labor market by introducing new technologies, jobs, internships and a growing partner-network.
The adapt2job-2win-Training took place in the frame of GJU’s flying faculty program supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and was organized by the Office for Industrial Links (OIL) at GJU.
Please find the full report here.
For more information visit https://www.adapt2job.com/en/
Contact at GJU: Office for Industrial Links (oil@gju.edu.jo)
