As part of the capacity building in the Vocational training center for undergraduate university students and teachers in Jordan (VTC project), trainers from GJU and six other Jordanian partners participated in the train of the trainer program conducted at Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in Nitra, Slovakia in the period 1-5 May 2017. The GJU delegate included, Eng. Abdul-Raouf AL-Dwairi (Career Guidance and Alumni Office), Malena Knauth (Office for Industrial Links), and Eng. Amira Abu Rabi (VTC Project Secretary, School of Applied Medical Sciences).
The TOT training covered three main themes: vocational Skills building, visits to vocations Institutions, and cultural visits.
The vocational skills included training on marketing skills, and management skills.
The TOT program included some professional visits to: Botanic garden of SUA, Sensory analysis laboratory at Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences at SUA, visiting of Agro biotech Research Centre at SUA, SUA library Neuroscience laboratory for consumer studies at FEM SUA and Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources laboratories.
The TOT program included also some cultural visits that that included a tour in Nitra.
The GJU-trainers will use the given training packages as a training material for GJU students in upcoming training workshops and short courses to be conducted at the VTC at GJU.
It worth mentioning that The VTC project is a three years’ project funded by the European Union through an Erasmus+ Project. The VTC lab has a complementary role for other entities at GJU in providing the GJU students with co-curricular skills and courses that are required by the job market. Further, the VTC lab has been established at each Jordanian partner university where it is located at GJU in building M hall 327.
