German-Jordanian University
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The German - Jordanian University ( GJU) is one of ten public universities in Jordan. Once the idea of a common university had matured over several years, was started in autumn 2004 in Jordan and in Germany with the implementation of the project. The German project office is affiliated with the University of Magdeburg- Stendal. The university is designed according to the model of a German university.
Creation and support of
The German - Jordanian University was established by a royal decree on the model of German Universities of Applied Sciences in 2005. The decree is based on an agreement between the Jordanian Ministry of Science (English Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF).
In August 2004, a founder committee had started its activities in Jordan; he worked closely with the Jordanian Ministry of Science. At the same time, a planning office was opened at the University of Magdeburg- Stendal, that created the concept in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD). The DAAD funds the project is now in its third phase.
On 25 April 2005 the foundation stone of the new college was laid. Patron was Jordan's King Abdullah II. Present were Prince Faisal ben Naiyef, the German Science Minister Edelgard Bulmahn, the Jordanian Minister of Science Khaled Touqan, the Saxony-Anhalt Minister of Education Jan- Hendrik Olbertz and the DAAD Vice President Huber. The founding president was shortly afterwards Labib Khadra, who studied communications engineering in Germany and the USA.
From the German side, the project is funded by the DAAD and the BMBF, and the state of Saxony -Anhalt. From the Jordanian private sector, there are financial as well as material resources to support the building. The Jordanian government is funding its share of the new campus with funds from a debt conversion program.
The college is designed for five thousand students who come from both Jordan and from the neighboring countries.
Courses
The GJU was housed in buildings of the Royal Scientific Society, where they started with eleven bachelor's degree programs in the winter semester 2005/2006 until the winter semester 2012/13. In what is now the newly opened campus in Mushaqar, near Amman on 20 courses ind the following faculties are offered:
- School of Management and Logistics Sciences ( Business Administration, Logistics, International Accounting )
- School of Applied Medical Sciences (Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology, Medical Technology )
- School of Natural Recourses Engineering ( environmental engineering, water management, energy technology)
- School of Technical Sciences (mechatronics, industrial engineering, maintenance engineering)
- School of Architecture and Built Environment ( architecture, interior design, design)
- School of Languages ( German as a foreign language, translation )
- School of Computer Engineering and Information Technology ( computer science, technical computer science, communications engineering )
In all faculties, the GJU cooperates with a large German partner universities.
The selection and development of the individual studies was carried out in dialogue with German and Jordanian education experts as well as senior representatives of the economy.
Role of German Universities of Applied Sciences
About seventy German colleges participate in the design of the various curricula and the extraction and selection of German teachers as well as recording and supervision of students of GJU during their year abroad.
The five-year study at the GJU is kept strong practical and application oriented on the model of German colleges, German teachers account for a high proportion of the total teaching staff. The study includes a comprehensive language teaching in German and in English; according to an English-speaking start-up phase is in particular informed at the last year of study in German language; Cultural studies and intercultural competence mediation are also part of the teaching.
The establishment of the GJU was carried out in two countries in access to political and other important institutions; the new university is an important contribution to the traditionally good bilateral relations represents the philosophy of the GJU aims at a serious, ambitious and excellent training of young people, through their ability to impartially and professionally to move in the European and Middle-Eastern cultural area, the existing good connections just in economic terms with the appropriate know -how more precise and more to solidify.
During his visit to Germany in 2011, the Jordanian king stressed the importance of the university.