Geodesy and geoinformatics for sustainable development in Jordan Erasmus Project

Project Title

Geodesy and geoinformatics for sustainable development in Jordan

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Jordan faces many challenges in its development toward a socio-economically and environmentally sustainable society. Lack of energy and land/water resources, insufficent infrastructure, serious traffic problems in urban areas and tremendous burden imposed by thousands of Syrian refugees are just some examples of existing problems. Addressing these problems need technical support from a well functioning mapping infrastructure and geodesy education.Present geodesy education in Jordan does not meet the needs of the society. There exists a geodesy bachelor program. But there is no master program in this field. Geodesy institutions do not have modern equipment to teach students new technologies. Curricula and teaching methods are not adapted to the new labour market and society’s needs.This Erasmus+ project aims to address the above issues in order to modernise geodesy education in Jordan. The project consortium consists of 3 EU universities, 3 Jordanian universities and 3 stakeholder organizations from both public and private sectors.The expected output are:(1) strengthened cooperation between geodesy education institutions and Jordanian labour market partners(2) 3 new geodesy laboratories with state-of-the-art geodetic equipment to be established during 2018(3) new geodesy/geoinformatics master curricula with detailed syllabus to be developed before summer of 2018(4) new master programs in geodesy/geoinformatics due to start in autumn 2019 at 3 Jordanian universities(5) Jordanian geodesy staff have upgraded their competences through 4 intensive training courses during 2018-2019(6) web-based e-learning platforms are set-up in 2019(7) new Problem-Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy are introduced in 2020 to foster active learning(8) quality assurance mechanism is implemented in spring 2020(9) 12 new teaching materials are developed before summer 2020(10) retraining in new geodesy technologies is offered to working professionals in geodesy and geoinformatics.

Project Website

http://www.geo4d.info

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 799857 Eur

Project Coordinator

KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN & Country: SE

Project Partners

• SEMREEN AND SHEIHK ALI
• AL-BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY
• MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
• HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LEON
• YARMOUK UNIVERSITY