WARSAW/KRAKOW -- The University of Jordan (UJ) and Polish universities recently signed three cooperation agreements.
UJ President Ekhleif Tarawneh said the agreements are part of efforts to exchange expertise and resources between UJ and academic establishments around the world.
Next month, the university will sign an agreement with academic establishments in Turkey to establish the Arab Cultural Centre in Istanbul, whose main focus will be teaching Arabic language, among other goals.
Tarawneh said the agreements in Poland provide for the exchange of students and teaching staff, conducting joint academic and scientific research, and holding joint specialised conferences and seminars.
To serve this purpose, the university, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, is embarking on various cooperation programmes in accordance with the agreements that were signed last week in the Polish capital Warsaw and the southern city of Krakow.
Tarawneh urged Polish university presidents to benefit from UJ's experience, resources and regional location, factors that attracted around 6,000 students from around the world to its 38,000-student campus.
Rector of the Polish National Defence University Maj. Gen. Boguslaw Pacek paid tribute to UJ's role, highlighting its status among international academic establishments.
Pacek said his university is keen on making the best out of the cooperation agreement signed with UJ last week.
Krakow's Jagiellonian University Rector Wojtiech Nowak also voiced desire to best utilise the agreement signed between his institution and UJ on Friday, particularly in fields that include Arabic language, literature, archaeology, history, law, Islamic finance and politics.
A similar call was made by officials and deans at the University of Warsaw last Thursday.
Tarawneh said the agreements with Polish universities would certainly benefit academic work and scientific research in the two countries and constitute a qualitative addition to UJ's similar agreements with around 150 academic institutions from around the world.
Zaid Eyadat, dean of UJ's school of international study and political science, described the agreement as a milestone in the university's efforts to become a centre of excellence at both the regional and international level, as well as a global think tank.
"The three agreements with the Polish universities will help in the realisation of our goals," Eyadat said.
© Jordan Times 2013
