Amman- 4 October 2021
GJU delegation delivered the invitation letter to establish an Innovation Think Tank (ITT) on its Main Campus to Siemens Healthineers in Erlangen on September 23, 2021. Prof. Sultan Haider, the Founder and Head of the ITT at Siemens Healthcare GmbH expressed his delight and looks forward to a fruitful partnership and joint projects.
The delegation of Vice President Prof. Ralf Rosskopf, Prof. Samer Al Gharabli (GJU Department Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering) and Dr. Adnan Lahham (GJU Deparment Biomedical Engineering) was warmly welcomed by Prof. Sultan Haider, his team and other representatives of Siemens (Ole Per Maloy, Gustav Kruger, Sebastian Ferrari-Stanford, Torsten Niederdraenk, Arne Wassermann,
Buket Aydin, Henry Kang, and Andreas Roedder) in physical and virtual presence at the ITT headquarters in Erlangen.
The GJU faculty were introduced to the vision, concept, work, projects and facilities of ITT and had a chance to talk to fellows from across the world. GJU is pleased to see that already eight students of GJU’s School of Applied Medical Sciences and School of Applied Technical Sciences received an Innovation Think Tank Fellowship, the majority of whom also did their Bachelor Thesis in collaboration with the ITT.
The partnership involves the creation of an innovation infrastructure that will be connected to global ITT locations focusing on developing entrepreneurship in education and scientific research. Its scope is envisioned to include the Development of the ITT German Jordanian University lab for knowledge re-use and co-creation, MVP development, prototyping, and testing, Organization of the ITT Certification Program annually for innovation training and defining projects for new opportunities, Developing entrepreneurship culture and open mindset of the ITT Team at GJU.
In addition, ITT Fellowship and student exchange programs, International research and grant applications and access to the global ITT community and displaying local innovation projects to the community through participation in ITT global events.
GJU’s invitation letter is based on a positive assessment and an understanding reached during a visit of Mr. Syed Ali Mehdi (ITT Regional Office, Dubai) on its campus late August 2021 (http://www.gju.edu.jo/news/gju-discusses-establishment-innovation-think-tank-siemens-12826). Since then the School of Applied Medical Sciences (SAMS) presented by Dr. Walid Al-Zyoud and Dr. Sameer Hasan) the Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) presented by Eng. Jamil AlKhatib, the Office of Industrial Links (OIL) presented by Director Britta Kähler were working on the realization of the envisioned cooperation.
