Amman-14 May 2014
The German Jordanian University hosted a group of professors and academics from the German partner universities on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The Network meeting, which lasted for two days, comprised many German exchange universities who are specialized in the Energy Engineering, BiomedicalEngineering as well as Logistics.
The meeting aimed at fostering the links between GJU and its partner universities through discussing issues related to the German year and intensifying the relationships between the partners themselves.
Prof. Natheer Abu Obeid, the GJU President, greeted all the guests, saying that through his visits to Germany he has been fortunate to have the opportunity to know how partner universities are structured and how we can work together as partners to achieve more than they could alone; especially in the matter of the German year.
He also appreciated their time of sharing GJU their new visions and thoughts, wishing them a successful meeting and a fruitful visit to Jordan.
For his part, Prof. Anton Mangstl, the Vice President for International Affairs, emphasized that the network meeting is very crucial to our mission in improving the work and making some changes, calling them all on using this opportunity to interact and exchange ideas and experiences.
The network meeting started by an informal meeting to socialize and exchange research and teaching interests, as they also discussed issues related to students and the German year.
The participants were split into three workshop discussion groups to make all of their voices heard. The group members gave presentations about their universities, the most interested figures, courses and university life, showing to students many choices of programs that they can choose one of them to do their internships as well.
Furthermore, the participants who came from Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences, Biberach University of Applied Sciences, Luebeck University of Applied Sciences and many others discussed with the students many topics and issues with regard their disciplines.
The network meeting has been very successful. The partners have been impressed by GJU latest achievements and are looking forwards to receiving students in their institutions. Discussions between them and our schools have been intense, hopefully that ties will be stronger in order to lead to further collaboration beyond student exchange.
It is worth mentioning that partners were fascinating by the beauty of the Kingdom, as they visited the most interested tourist sites, especially Petra. They also visited the Solar Desalination Project as it considered one of the most promising projects in renewable energy of GJU.