EDU-SYRIA team held virtually on 15 December the first consortium management meeting for EDU-SYRIA III project. The meeting aims at discussing the project’s progress and opens a discussion venue among the partners.

Ms.Maria Rosa, the Attaché of the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the ‘Madad Fund’, emphasized on the importance of EU Funds for assisting the Syrian students. She also emphasized the importance of directing part of the fund towards the south of Jordan due to the large number of Syrian refugees there who have limited resources and scholarships.

The meeting was attended by the project partners: Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Yarmouk University (YU), Zarqa University (ZU), Luminus Technical University College (LTUC), Mutah University (MU), Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and Dutch Organisation for Internationalisation in Education (NUFFIC). Each partner had the chance to discuss the project’s actions progress, encountered challenges and discussed various ways to solve these challenges.

EDU-SYRIA is an educational and humanitarian project funded by the European Union through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (Madad Fund), and the Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI), to provide higher education scholarships to Syrians affected by the conflict and underprivileged Jordanians and to help the host communities in Jordan. The project, managed by the German Jordanian University, has graduated more than 1000 students so far and has enrolled almost 1900 students in various academic programs. It started in 2015 and will continue until 2023.

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