Amman- March 17, 2016

 

In order to answer this question and to develop goals and strategies for the German Jordanian University (GJU), the president of the GJU, Prof. Natheer Abu Obeid, invited the Deans, Vice Presidents and the Office for Industrial Links (OIL) for a one-day internal workshop that took place on Thursday, 17th of March, 2016.

Since its establishment in 2005, GJU has been focusing on applied sciences and innovation. One of its core concepts is to build a close university-industry partnership in order to connect researchers, students and graduates with the private sector in Jordan, the region and Germany on different levels. Over the years, many collaborative activities with industrial partners from Jordan, Germany and the region were already successfully implemented at GJU. Hence, in line with the motto "together we can do it even better" the workshop aimed at defining the top priorities and necessary next steps to increase the collaboration with industrial partners at the University as a whole and at the different Schools.

The workshop started by highlighting previous achievements, which then were presented and further discussed. Among those are collaborative graduation projects, industrial professor assignments, field trips to factories and industrial internships, conferences and workshops on a national and international level, cooperation agreements with industrial and governmental institutions as well as sharing academic expertise with business partners. Building on these achievements, the participants were asked by the moderator, Eng. Jamil AlKhatib, to define the necessary resources that are needed in order to better support the implementation of cooperation activities. The workshop included lively discussions and came up with clear recommendations, like the establishment of supporting bodies at each School and incentives for staff members to successfully realize GJU’s goals.

GJU is looking forward to a closer and more incentive cooperation with its business partners and invites the industry to participate in upcoming projects and joined workshops.

For more information kindly contact: GJU, Office for Industrial Links, britta.kaehler@gju.edu.jo