Amman- 13 June 2022
The activities in which the German Language Center participated in the German week from 14th to 26 May met with broad student participation and interaction. The GLC activities were in different fields and aimed to focus on linguistics and multiculturalism. This includes a week-long workshop from an interdisciplinary and intercultural team as part of the transnational project "Introducing Data Literacy to German Jordanian University" between the GJU and several German partner universities; Bonn-Rhein Sieg University of Applied Sciences, der Ernst Abbe University Jena, University Fulda, University Darmstadt, TH Brandenburg.
These workshops were conducted by a delegation of professors from the universities involved in the project on topics around data ethics and data security, reliable and scientific collection of data and visualization of data and analysis. The idea of the project is to create awareness among GJU and Jordanian institutions about data literacy, enhance understanding in the participating German partners and develop a concept of conveying relevant data literacy skills to GJU students.
Parallel workshops were conducted by the delegation of professors from the German universities involved with the GLC teachers in the field of Technical language to work on preparing an intended module development on the subject of data literacy, this module is intended to be used in the Technical language course as a part of German VI.
Extracurricular activities were held during the annual German Weeks such as presenting a German entertaining film with competitions and chances for participants to win, booths on the main hall of the GJU Campus with exciting competitions and educational aids with wide participation from both GLC teachers and students.
