During his meeting with the Director of the Global Engagement Office at the Canadian University of Alberta, Dan Fredrick, the President of Yarmouk University, Professor Islam Massad, stressed the importance of strengthening academic and research cooperation between the two universities in a way that serves the educational process on both sides. He emphasized the importance of student exchange programs between universities in various countries of the world as this provides students with knowledge and experience in their field of specialization, expands their awareness, and introduces them to different cultures. Massad also pointed out the importance of consolidating the cooperation with the Canadian University of Alberta, one of the best five universities in Canada, through renewing the memorandum of understanding concluded between the two universities. He also indicated the readiness of the Language Center at Yarmouk to prepare an integrated program to teach the Arabic language for non-native speakers coming from the University of Alberta and other Canadian universities as well as those coming from Canadian schools.

In return, Fredrick affirmed the readiness of Canadian Alberta to consolidate cooperation with Yarmouk University in areas that would support the educational and research process in both universities, praising the distinguished academic level of Yarmouk students studying in Canadian Alberta and calling for building bridges of permanent communication between these students and their supervisors. He then reviewed the history of the University of Alberta, stating that it is one of the most important public universities in Canada at the academic and research level and is distinguished by its international reputation in the field of humanities, information technology, computer science, engineering, and health sciences.