Amman- 30 July 2018
(This article is an English summary of the article that originally appeared in the German Daily “Rheinische Post” on 14 July 2018)
This year, the German Jordanian University (GJU) was not only honored with the visit of the German chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel in June, but was also able to host the adapt2job-workshop developed by Edda Pulst, a German professor for business informatics at Westphalian University of Applied Sciences.
Edda Pulst engages with the GJU and its students since 2009. With more than 4,500 students, most of them female, GJU is a showcase university of applied sciences and belongs to the best universities in the Hashemite Kingdom.
Jordan is not only one of the countries with the scarcest water resources in the world, but, like many other emerging nations, it suffers from insufficient public transportation, among other issues.
Dr. Angela Merkel mentioned that these are areas where GJU students will possibly play key roles in the future, with job opportunities arising to tackle the issues. Echoing this remark, the adapt2job-workshops take these problems into consideration to develop possible solutions.
In March, the adapt2job-workshop, which consists of a teaching-duo of a professor and an industry partner, was held under the topic of “New Technologies and Enablers for Digitalization”. Edda Pulst was supported by Markus Reifferscheid, chief of development of the SMS-Group, a leader in digitalization and industry 4.0.
Each duo is accompanied by representatives of Jordanian companies/branches of international companies, such as Fine, DHL, Microsoft, SAP or IBM.
During five days, the students participating in the workshop did not only learn a lot about the theoretical and practical implementation of big data, augmented reality, internet of things or digital twins from the representatives, Edda Pulst and Markus Reifferscheid, they also worked on their own business ideas for Jordan.
This successful workshop will be held again at GJU in September, featuring the topic of how to digitally solve the problem of water supply and the lack of public transportation in Jordan.
Please follow the link to read the online version of the article (in German):
https://rp-online.de/panorama/wissen/bildung/wie-deutsches-wissen-jordanien-hilft_aid-23809861