AAU hosts Pre-Academic Program for Syrian Refugees and Disadvantaged Jordanian Youth Supported by the European Union.

There are Syrian Refugees and underprivileged Jordanian youth in Jordan who are seriously disadvantaged by lack of credentials, knowledge, skills and competencies required for success in higher education and the workplace. These young adults are unemployed; they depend on social programs and unfulfilling jobs that cannot support their families. The year-long pre-academic program will enable participants to make up for the lack of formal education due to civil war in Syria or a disadvantaged background in Jordan allowing them to achieve the necessary educational level that will prepare them to enroll in post-secondary academic program, sustainable employment and lifelong learning. We will provide participants a second chance to go from academically deficient and unskilled to confident lifelong learners with a chance to succeed at no cost at all. The program is part of the Grant scheme of the HOPES project funded by the European Union’s Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis, the ‘Madad Fund’ and implemented by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) together with the British Council, Campus France and Nuffic.

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EDU-SYRIA!

EDU-SYRIA grants scholarships to Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians to pursue higher education as well as vocational training at Jordanian universities and colleges. It started in 2015 and will continue until 2023. EDU-SYRIA is an educational and humanitarian project funded by the European Union (EU) to provide higher education scholarships to Syrians affected by the conflict and underprivileged Jordanians and to help the host communities in Jordan. The project has graduated more than 1000 students so far and has enrolled almost 1900 students in various academic programs.