Vocational Training Diploma on Electrical and Hybrid Vehicles Erasmus Project

Project Title

Vocational Training Diploma on Electrical and Hybrid Vehicles

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

This project is responding to the emerged needs and challenges in Jordan. This include climate change, low employment rate of engineers, the gap between workforce supply and demand, the rapidly growing market of Electric vehicles and Hybrid vehicles (EV and HEV) and the need for servicing and maintaining them.The main scope is to equip the engineers with the needed practical skills in the field of EV and HEV and qualify them to local, regional and international markets, through developing a professional diploma and integrate some of these courses within existing programmes. Through this diploma, students will get the needed skills to maintain and operate Electric and Hybrid vehicles with appropriate knowledge in the fields of climate change, vehicle manufacturing systems, and life cycle assessment.The envisaged impacts within this project include:• Increase the employability of Engineers in Local, Regional and International Market • Reduce air pollution and mitigate climate change impact on Jordan, through increase the use of EV/HEV• Enhance the quality of the vocational training provided in the vocational training centers, through employing the trained engineers in those centers• Improve the level of provided services for repairing and maintaining electric and Hybrid vehicles in Jordanian enterprises. • Satisfying industry and economical needs by empowering engineers.• Helping to move Jordan forward to become a host for Electrical and Hybrid vehicles industry in future

Project Website

http://sites.ju.edu.jo/en/ECO-CAR/Home.aspx

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999942 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN & Country: JO

Project Partners

• TAFILA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• AL-BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY
• AL-HUSSEIN BIN ABDULLAH II TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL’AQUILA
• AL-ZAYTOONAH UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
• TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE OSTWESTFALEN-LIPPE
• RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN