Final Conference

13 October 2020

Yarmouk University

Irbid-Jordan

About the event

On October 13, 2020, the GEO4D project will have its final project conference. The conference will be organized both as physical meeting at Yarmouk University and digitally via the Zoom online meeting platform. Staff and students of the GEO4D partner organizations, members of the National Advisory Board, staff of the National Erasmus+ Office in Jordan, and other interested stakeholders will be invited to the conference. At the conference, the GEO4D project teams will report the project implementations and achieved results.

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Venue: Applied Geoinformatics Lab, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,  Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

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Conference Agenda

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10.00 – 10.15 Opening speeches

• Professor Khaled Al-Batayneh,
  Dean of the Faculty of Science, Yarmouk University

10.15 – 12.15 Presentation of the GEO4D

1. Overview of the GEO4D project
   Dr Huaan Fan, Project coordinator, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

2. Development of new master programmes at Jordan universities
   Dr Rana Jawarneh, Yarmouk University

3. GEO4D training activities 
   Professor Marco Scaioni and Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

4. New teaching and learning methods
   Dr Flor Álvarez Taboada, University of Leon, Spain

5. PBL implementation experience at the Hashemite University
   Dr Mohammad Al-Qinna, Hashemite University

6. New learning tools and teaching materials
   Professor Muheeb Awawdeh, Yarmouk University

7. Course assessment by students
   Dr Omar Al-Bayari, Al-Balqa Applied University

8. GEO4D project website
   Professor Nezar Hammouri, Hashemite Universit