With the rise in population and drop in the economy, Jordan needs new ideas and schemes involving the younger population for the country to strive in the future. JOB-JO is an initiative brought together by universities in the South of Jordan lead by Mutah University, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, as well as European partners. The aim of the project is to promote youth employment and reduce poverty in Jordan’s remote areas which will empower economic and social aspects of these communities as well as provide women more opportunities for success. Although the literate rate in Jordan is high, and people are getting more educated than ever, the employment rate is low due to many social and economic factors. As most universities provide the best education possible, students still lack many skills that would be easy to gain. The career centers would provide services in order to teach and train unemployed graduates to be requalified for more job opportunities. Services such as training courses, skills and communication workshops, as well as support entrepreneurships and initiatives brought by the community would be offered. These services would have European influence through exchange programs as well as the great relationship to happen between universities in Jordan and the experienced universities in Europe. The short term impact would be to allow graduates to gain skills and training needed for their professions where in the long term, these career centers would foster the economic growth and reduce the unemployment and poverty in the remote areas of Jordan.

The main objective of the IREEDER project is to improve the capacities of high quality education in Jordan, using state of art technology and training staff on improving the quality of the courses taught by making best use of these technologies. Specifically, IREEDER aims at introducing the recent developments in Electrical Engineering to the undergraduate curricula, where three subjects in renewable energy, Internet of things and Cyber security will be developed. Also, three laboratories for training the students in the selected topics will be established in three different Jordanian partners. The reason behind this project is mainly to enhance the quality if the graduated engineers by providing the basic knowledge and the necessary skills to enter the labor market in Jordan. The three selected subjects have been chosen based on a need analysis of the Jordanian market.IREEDER includes five Jordanian partners and five European partners, who have the willing and the ability to accomplish this cooperative project by exchanging the experience towards achieving the project aims.