The Vice President of Yarmouk University for Planning, Development, Scientific Research, and Quality Affairs, Professor Samer Samara, met a delegation from the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation Office in Amman, headed by the Director of the Office, Dr. Edmund Retka, accompanied by Simon Engelkes and Lianne Onis, to discuss ways to activate the existing cooperation between the University and the Office. Samara stressed that Yarmouk pays careful attention to expanding its network of cooperation with various international institutions and organizations in a way that benefits its educational progress and enhances its academic reputation. He pointed to the importance of activating the existing memorandum of cooperation between the two sides, according to which the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation trains a group of Students from Yarmouk Faculty of Business on how to submit policy papers about the economic challenges of the Jordanian society. Samara also pointed to the possibility of cooperation between the University represented by the Refugees, Displaced Persons and Forced Migration Studies Center and the Foundation through the establishment of programs concerned with empowering women in elections. For his part, Ratka reviewed the emergence of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation whose activities are distributed in more than 120 countries and has 16 offices in Germany and more than 80 offices in other countries, highlighting its interest in strengthening cooperation with various Jordanian institutions and organizations in the field of social and economic policies.
After the meeting, the delegation members visited the Refugees, Displaced Persons and Forced Migration Studies Center where the Center’s head, Prof. Reem Al-Kharouf, talked about the establishment of the center, its objectives, the services it provides in the fields of training, research and project implementation, its medium-term strategic plan for the years 2022-2024, and its future aspirations to be a national and regional research reference that supports decision-makers and researchers in asylum and migration issues.
