Monday, 8 September 2014
As part of the German Jordanian University GJU role in support the exchange of knowledge and friendship between the German and Jordanian cultures, GJU hosted a group from German-Jordanian friendship society on Monday, 8th of September, 2014.
The 9th German-Jordanian Youth Exchange Program that organized by the Jordanian German Friendship Society included 45 young Germans and Jordanians. They exchanged experience in different subjects, what youth can do to increase awareness about environmental, cultural and the most important political issues that are occurring in the world nowadays.
The group was first welcomed by Dr. Andrea Christiansen,International Exchange Advisor at the International Office of GJU, where she highlighted how important such initiative and collaboration between GJU and the society are, the group was also shown a brief presentation about GJU’s establishment, schools, majors, features and exchange year.
For his part, Prof. Natheer Abu.Obeid, the GJU President welcomed the guests and emphasized that GJU is a special platform for any activity of interaction that could ever happen between the German-Jordanian friendship society and the university, as it also considered a bridge of culture to Germany, which help in widen the intercultural knowledge about both cultures and encouraging youth of both countries to meet and understand their different cultures and get values.
On their part Mr. Helmut Henseler, President of the German Jordanian Friendship Society and Mr. Shadi Nejim, International Project Coordinator thanked GJU for their hospitality and emphasized on the importance of such cooperation and that this is has been an ongoing cooperation since the establishment of GJU and the Society.
After that, the group had lunch with some of the students and representatives from the university.