INVENT – Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan, is the ERASMUS+ project, which aims at institutionalizing innovation, technology transfer, and capacity building within the Jordanian universities so that they become a pillar in the development of the national economy. The project concentrates on strengthening and enhancing the role of higher education institutes and universities in innovation capacity building, technology transfer and commercialization of applied scientific research outcome in Jordan.
The project will help to utilize the abundant scientific research production in two ways: first by giving the chance to the researchers to apply their research results, and second by providing a clear view of the technological need of the local industries so that the research and researchers priorities can be well identified. Another important objective of this project is to enhance the sector of innovation and technology transfer through capacity building of staff and raising the awareness of the innovation importance among the university’s researchers and the local businesses.
The project aims and objectives will be achieved via establishing Centers for Transfer of Innovation (CTI) at selected Jordanian universities. The centers will help in the implanting and further development of the National Policy and Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation which is the base for all currently ongoing and planned innovation support activities. INVENT project will enable the CTI to support reality-related introduction of research results into the educational processes and industrial application.
The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of four Centers for transfer of innovation (CTI) at the Jordanian universities and other two at departments at non-academic organizations and institutions. Their activity is the provision of entrepreneurs with innovations for introduction in the process of production.
SAXEED awakens entrepreneurial spirit and unlocks potential.
Universities have great potential to produce economically successful start-ups with knowledge and technologies from scientific research. Unfortunately, this potential is not fully exploited everywhere. We support interested founders at universities and non-university research institutions. We raise awareness and motivate students, university graduates, and employees to start their own businesses, and then train and accompany them. In doing so, we contribute to promoting a culture of self-employment, personal initiative, and entrepreneurial thinking at universities and research institutions, and contribute to the innovative strength of the Saxon economy.
SAXEED is represented in the network with one or more employees at all universities and offers a wide range of courses. The start-up network is supported by strong regional and national partners. The SAXEED start-up network, a start-up initiative at four universities in south-west Saxony in Chemnitz, Freiberg, Mittweida and Zwickau, was funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), the Free State of Saxony, EXIST and the participating universities.
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SAXEED AWAKENS ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT AND UNLOCKS POTENTIAL
Universities have a great potential to produce economically successful start-ups with knowledge and technologies from scientific research. Unfortunately, this potential is not fully exploited everywhere. We support founders interested in universities and non-university research institutions. We sensitize and motivate students, university graduates and employees for the idea of starting their own businesses and then qualify and accompany them. In doing so, we are contributing to a stronger culture of self-employment, personal initiative and entrepreneurial thinking at universities and research institutions, and we are contributing to the innovative power of the Saxon economy.
SAXEED is represented in the network with one or more employees at all universities and offers a wide range of courses. The start-up network is supported by strong regional and national partners. The founding network SAXEED, the start-up initiative at the four Southwest Saxon universities in Chemnitz, Freiberg, Mittweida and Zwickau, is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), the Free State of Saxony, EXIST and the participating universities .
As part of the ongoing cooperation between Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and Germany's Kempten University of Applied Sciences, the SAXEED.ECO project has been launched with support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The project aims to develop applied educational content in entrepreneurship/sustainable energy and to support entrepreneurial projects and ideas. The project includes partners from Yarmouk University in Jordan and one of the Algerian universities.
RESMYLE/Green Construction is a project supported by the European Union in collaboration with the Jordan University of Science and Technology/Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects. The program aims to promote, instill, and develop creativity, curiosity, imagination, and general skills among young people. It also works to raise awareness of sustainable development concepts provide practical and field training for different groups of young people, develop different methods for organizing and conducting workshops in the field of sustainable development, organize environmental and scientific activities among various environmental non-governmental organizations, and support the creation of entrepreneurial businesses by establishing incubators that support innovative projects in the environmental field through cooperation with entrepreneurs in the environmental field.
The center will incubate creative ideas and projects in order to develop them into start-ups in this field. The center provides financial and technical support for innovative projects in the environmental field through cooperation with entrepreneurs in the environmental field in Jordan. The project's vision is to create an integrated global ecosystem that encourages innovation and creativity in the fields of construction technology, materials, and renewable energy, and to apply and develop creative ideas to reduce problems related to this sector. It targets young people aged 18 to 29 (NEETS) who have completed or dropped out of school, have not received any training, and do not have job opportunities in the Irbid Governorate in northern Jordan.
