PALIB management team at University College of Applied Sciences-UCAS conducted the first quality meeting for the project with University Colleges of Merit-ARCES on Monday, 11 May, 2020.. Dr. Ahmed Aldahdouh, PALIB project manager, and Mr. Hatem Sultan, international relations staff member at UCAS participated via ZOOM tool in an online meeting with Mr. Alessandro Pernice
On Wednesday, 6 May 2020, UCAS remotely conducted the 1st steering committee meeting within PALIB project. The meeting aimed to outline the features of the next stage in terms of implementing the activities of WP1 and WP2 under the current circumstances of persistency of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The steering committee members and
To start implementing WP3; collecting NEETs data, Mr. Hatem Sultan and Mrs. Samah Hammouda from UCAS PP5 participating in virtual meeting via ZOOM tool with Mrs. Alaa Wehba from NARC PP6 and Mr. Alessandro Pernice and Mr. Simone Marsala from ARCES; the project lead partner. During the meeting, participants discussed an important issue related to
Under the umbrella ENI CBCMED program of European Union, The funded project (enHancing thE sociaL Inclusion Of nets)- HELIOS aims to reduce the high rates of NEETs and prominent skills mismatch which currently prevail. For the implementation of WP3 of the Helios project, the coordinator of Helios project in University College of Applied Sciences-UCAS (project
On 16 April 2020, the national Erasmus+ Office (NEO) in Palestine conducted a virtual field monitoring visit to the Erasmus+ funded project “Palestinian Research and Library Platform PALIB” using Zoom meeting. The meeting was attended by NEO Director Dr. Nedal Jayousi, UCAS rector Prof. Rifat Rustom, the vice rector of Planning and External Relations affairs
The kick off meeting of the Erasmus+ project “Boosting Innovation in Education And Research Of Precision Agriculture In Palestine (BENEFIT)” was successfully conducted at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia from 4th to 6th of March 2020. The initial kick-off meeting was attended by representative from all partners Al-Quds Open University – Applicant;
The Kick off Meeting of “the Palestinian Research and Library Platform (PALIB)” project took place at Fundacion Universitaria San Antonio (UCAM) in Murcia, Spain on the 26th of February 2020. The project, which is co-financed by the European Union (under the Erasmus+ Programme), is implemented by a consortium led by University College of Applied Sciences
University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) delivering Bradford Foundations’ grant to the students in need on 5th January 2020, the Planning and External Relations Office in UCAS celebrated the handover of Abu Baker-Bradford grant that provide financial assistance to eleven in need students. At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Hatem Abu Sultan the International
UCAS participated in the lunch event and kick-off meeting of HELIOS project, (enHancing thE sociaL Inclusion Of neetS). HELIOS project is funded by the European Union (EU) under the ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Program, for three years 2019-2022. HELIOS aims to provide curricula for innovative-targeted skills training courses oriented towards specific needs of the labor market
On 12 October 2019, University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) organized the final workshop on “Evaluation of Curriculum Development Process” in framework of Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE project “Boosting Innovation in Curricula Development of Information Technology programs in Palestine (BITPAL)”. Participants from BITPAL partners: University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS), Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), Al-Azhar University
UCAS team participated in the closing conference of the Project “Transforming Assessment Practices in Large Enrollment First Year Education (TAP)”. Event was held in Birzeit University – Ramallah on Saturday, September 7, 2019. TAP project is an Erasmus+ project Funded by the European Union EU, 2016-2019 cycle. TAP aims to modernize student evaluation schemes in
Within a series of agreements with private sector institutions The University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) signs a cooperation agreement with Al-Yazji Bakery Group to employ a number of its graduates. UCAS represented by the Alumni Unit at the Community Service and Continuing Education Center, has signed a cooperation agreement with Al-Yazji Bakery Group to
In cooperation with German Adult Education Association (DVV), Community Service and Continuing Education Center (CSC) holds workshops to assess and evaluate the needs of different target groups of Palestinian society and community. CSC helds several specialized and focused workshops for different categories of Palestinian society in order to study and evaluate the community needs using
The Community Service and Continuing Education (CSC) has implemented a specialized training program in the field of cars air-conditioning systems maintenance, where 26 participants received intensive practical training in this field, within the agreement signed between the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) and GIZ for development of modern cars maintenance specialization.
University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) has recorded new achievement on the level of international cooperation. Where it has received funding from the European Commission to implement two international projects within Erasmus+ + KA2 program in the field of capacity building of higher education. Prof. Rifat Rustom, UCAS rector, expressed his happiness for this achievement