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Biannual Progress Reports Template & Reports

Deliverable Number: D1.3

Contractual Date of Delivery: Biannually

Actual Date of Delivery: 30/09/2019

Title of Deliverable: Biannual Progress Reports Template

Work-Package contributing to the Deliverable: WP1

Dissemination Level: IL

Nature of the Deliverable: R

Editors: Vassilios Makrakis & Nelly Kostoulas, University of Crete (UOC)

Contributors: All partners

Version Date Comments & Status Distribution Biannually

Project Funding

Project Full Title: Developing an Interdisciplinary MSs Programme in Climate Change,

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Project Acronym: CCSAFS

Project number: 573881-EPP-1-2016-1-EL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

EC Programme: ERASMUS +

Agreement number: (2016-3770-001-001)

Start date: 15th October, 2016

Duration: 3 years

Budget: € 919 842

Disclaimer The content in this deliverable expresses the views of the authors and the CCSAFS

Consortium and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. The

European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information

contained herein.

Executive Summary

A progress report is a report of work accomplished during a specific time period. We have planned

to have biannual reports throughout the period of the three-year CCSAFS project. Recording the

CCSAFS progress is an indicator of what has been accomplished and what lags behind. Such an

information is very critical to the whole process of the project. As we have pointed in our

methodology, particular attention is given to the SMART goals because it helps to

establish specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-targeted goals. Monitoring the

CCSAFS performance should be done daily/weekly/monthly, but it has to be recorded in a longer

periods of time. In deciding about the module or template for recording and writing up the

biannual progress report the following questions should be asked:

How much of the work is complete

What part of the work is currently in progress

What work remains to be done

What problems or unexpected things, if any, have arisen

How the project is going in general

Accordingly, the following template was prepared to be used for the progress biannual and

monitoring report.

CCSAFS BIANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT

[October 2016- April 2017]

Name of Partner Institution CCSAFS Partners: Al Azhar University, Aswan University,

Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development (HUSD),

Jerash University, Jordan University of Science and

Technology (JUST), Mutah University, SEKEM

Development Foundation (SDF), Suez Canal University, Τhe

University of Jordan Progress Against Milestones

Al Azhar University

M1.1: Kick-off meeting & consortium agreement (m2)

Related to WP1 Five staff of Al Azhar Team CCSAFS members attended this kick off meeting and

consortium agreement at Amman- Jordan on 16- 21th February, 2017. Al Azhar Team CCSFS member

participated in three workshops during that meeting

Workshop 1: Identifying CCSAFS Concepts, Competences and Skills then Presenting results of the

previous workshop was Identifying Professional Profiles of CCSAFS MSc Programme Graduates

Workshop 2: CCSAFS Graduate Profiles, Concepts, Competences and Skills: Making Connections.

CCSAFS Course Curriculum Structure.

Workshop 3: stakeholders' engagement Validation and accreditation Procedures Discussion for the

CCSAFS MSc Program

M1.2: Project management and communication plan (m2)

Related to Al Azhar university (P6) all tasks were distributed between all staff of Al Azhar Team

CCSAFS member

M2.1: Report on barriers and drivers (m3)

All staff of Al Azhar Team CCSAFS members participated to prepare individual Report on barriers and

drivers of stakeholders inputs

M2.2: Stakeholders' survey for CCSAFS competences (m5).

All staff of Al Azhar Team CCSAFS members carried out Stakeholders’ survey for CCSAFS

competences

M8.l: Dissemination

Staff of Al Azhar Team CCSAFS members began dissemination plan in all of Faculty of agriculture and

faculty of science by two workshop this workshop was published in some Egyptian newsletters

Aswan University

M1.1. Kick-off meeting & consortium agreement (Attached, Partnership Agreement, and CCSAFS

kick-off meeting Agenda)

Consortium agreement has been signed by the President of Aswan University, Prof. Ahmed Ghallab, and

sent to Prof. Makrakis, the coordinator of CCSAFS project.

Kick-off Meeting and Regional Workshop had been organized in Jordan (Holiday Inn-Dead Sea), 17-20

February 2017. Seven members from Aswan Partner University attended the meeting:

1- Prof. Ahmed Ghallab 2- Prof. Ahmed El-Otefy

3- Dr. Mohamed Abou-Ellail 4- Dr. Adel Abdel-Faheem

5- Dr. Waleed Abd El-Fadeel 6- Dr. Wagdi Saber Soliman

7- Tasneem Abd El-Hafez (ICT student)

During the meeting many essential topics has been discussed. Firstly, CCSAFS project objectives,

methodologies and managerial issues have been illustrated with focussing on managing the CCSAFS

budget. Then, an example from UNIP (MSc in Sustainable Agriculture) and an international review of

CCSAFS relevant programmes have been displayed. The main topic in the meeting was about CCSAFS

course curriculum structure, and validation and accreditation procedures (Panel discussion).

Many workshops (discussion groups) have been established during the meeting to identifying:

• CCSAFS Concepts, Competences and Skills

• Professional Profiles of CCSAFS MSc Programme Graduate

• CCSAFS Graduate Profiles, Concepts, Competences and Skills: Making Connection

• How to engage stakeholders

Finally, partners from each country discussed together for setting-up inter-institutional cooperation

processes, and for planning road-map of the inter-institutional cooperation in the context of CCSAFS

design, development and implementation.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………

M1.2. Management and communication plan

For management, Aswan University has designed the institutional team. The management and

communication between the team members are through regular meeting in CLIMASP office until

preparing and equipping the CCSAFS office. The key communication tool used with other partners in the

project is a Web-based collaborative Wiki to share and exchange information.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………

M2.1. Report on barriers and drivers (attached, CCSAFS STAKEHOLDER MAPPING, BARRIERS

& DRIVERS)

As part of WP2, task has been done to identifying stakeholder mapping, barriers, and drivers. During

January 2017, the team members of Aswan University consulted together using brainstorm methodology

to identifying and mapping stakeholders, and to identifying the barriers and drivers.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………

M2.2: Stakeholders' survey for CCSAFS competences.

M2.3: Colloquia for strengthening stakeholders' inputs.

M2.4: Guidelines for strengthening stakeholders’ inputs

(Attached, Internal Stakeholder Survey)

During the kick-off meeting, many workshops were established to strengthening stockholders’ inputs.

During March 2017, the team members of Aswan University gathered to prepare the internal and external

stakeholders’ survey. The team members helped the ICT student (Tasneem Abd El-Hafez) in her

assignment; administration, data collection and coding of the questionnaires. The data of the internal

stakeholders’ survey (Final year student in Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan

University) has been analyzed and sent to Prof. Makrakis, the coordinator of CCSAFS project. The ICT

student, consulting with team members, selected 5 experts for external stakeholders’ survey and she will

use semi-structured methodology as recommended.

Regarding the CCSAFS professional development survey which is accessible in the following link:

https://goo.gl/forms/BOmLeklS6llFNeXGG3

We disseminated the link within faculties of agriculture in Upper Egypt including Aswan University,

https://goo.gl/forms/BOmLeklS6llFNeXGG3

South Valley University, Sohag University, Assiut University, and El-Minia University. We sent the link

through email to staff member groups, and share it using Facebook website. But we cannot monitor the

total number of participants.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………

M3.1: Training needs assessment

M3.2: Training staff selection

Training needs is still under assessment. After the assessment of training needs, we will plan the criteria

of selection training staff.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………

M8.1. Dissemination and Sustainability

In consistent with project strategy of dissemination and exploitation, Aswan University put a plan of

dissemination and exploitation aiming to provide information about CCSAFS project, make use of project

results on a large scale, and assure the sustainability of the project. The tools which will be used for

achieving these objective are:

- designing website both in Arabic and English

- designing social website in Facebook (it easy and fast way for dissemination nowadays)

https://www.facebook.com/Climate-change-sustainability-agriculture-and-food-security-Ccsafs-

282757572136626/

- designing leaflets, brochures, and posters

- preparing for workshops, meeting, and event about the project

…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………

M8.2 Project’s Website

Website construction is still under discussion. We are wondering about each partner should design

individual website for his university, or all partners from Egypt has one website for the project.

Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development

M1.2: Project management and communication plan and meetings completed

M3.3: Training sessions (3 national & 2 regional) in each PC completed

M4.1: MSc. in CCSAFS programme structure and courses developed completed

M4.2: 11-16 CCSAFS MSc. course syllabi and course modules completed

M5.1: 8 Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS established

M5.2: 8 Blended Learning Laboratories established

M8.4: Int. conference & scientific community dissemination completed

M8.5: Presentations (e.g. posters and information desks) in various exhibitions completed

M1.2: Project management and management meetings conducted on time on both national and

international levels

M3.3: 1 National training session held at HUSD and 2 regional conducted with the participation of HUSD

M4.1: Structured completely developed in-line with the stakeholders’ study previously conducted

M4.2: Work has begun on developing the syllabi and course modules

M5.1: The Center of Excellence was established at HUSD

M5.2: Work is in progress for establishing the Blended Learning Laboratories

M8.4: Some dissemination conducted on the national and international level by HUSD

M8.5: Presentations on the CCSAFS were presented in various events including the Cairo Climate Talks

Jerash University

M1.1: Kick-off meeting & consortium agreement (m2):

We had attended the Kick-off meeting and regional workshop that held between 17-19 February in

Holiday-Inn Hotel in the Dead sea, Jordan. The meeting last for three days and partitioned into 7 worthy

sessions: Managerial and Financial Issues, Surveying Courses Relevant to CCSAFS, Designing the

https://www.facebook.com/Climate-change-sustainability-agriculture-and-food-security-Ccsafs-282757572136626/

https://www.facebook.com/Climate-change-sustainability-agriculture-and-food-security-Ccsafs-282757572136626/

CCSAFS Curriculum, Following-up the CCSAFS Curriculum Design Process, Strengthening

Stakeholders Engagement for CCSAFS Curriculum, CCSAFS Validation and Accreditation Procedures,

and finally, CCSAFS Inter-Institutional Coordination and Management. On behalf of JU, in the second

day, Dr. Ebraheem Al-Tahat participated in the panel discussion of the CCSAFS course curriculum

structure and the panel discussion of CCSAFS validation and accreditation procedures.

M1.2: Project management and communication plan (m2):

It was a great experiment to be part of this project. We tried always to work hard to follow the guidelines

and instructions of the project and to finalize the required assignments and tasks. In addition to that, we

strictly managed the project internally. Also we communicated with our partners in Jordan many times to

make better management on the local side.

M2.1: Report on barriers and drivers (m3):

As mentioned in the attached report of the workshop.

M2.2: Stakeholders' survey for CCSAFS competences (m5):

As mentioned in the attached report of the workshop.

Also,

Our role in this point was through arranging local workshop with our partners in Jordan to discuss the

competences needed for the MSc CCSAFS programme. The workshop was planned in the third week of

April. The assistant researchers helped in recording and analyzing qualitative data resulting from the

external stakeholders’ workshop. We attached here part of the agenda that include the discussion

regarding CCSAFS competences:

M2.3: Colloquia for strengthening stakeholders’ inputs (m6):

Internal colloquium in Jerash University was held in March to negotiate and to strength the inputs of

stakeholders. It was very fruitful and exchanging knowledge and opinions was the major goal of this

meeting. The results of this meeting will be attached in the report. Meanwhile, another workshop was

done with our partners in Jordan in the Jordan University. Here we attached parts of the agenda:

M2.4: Guidelines for strengthening stakeholders inputs (m6):

First: An announcement was done to stakeholders to attend the internal workshop.

Second: Another announcement was done to stakeholders to attend the workshop in our partner’s site.

Third: In both of meetings, stakeholder received formal invitation to attend

Fourth: welcoming and presentation was done to strength stakeholder’s knowledge and involvement.

Fifth: On-site exchanging opinions and ideas in addition to evaluation of the project.

Sixth: On behalf of professional stakeholders, the survey was disseminated after making a short briefing

on how to fill- in the forms and providing them with the guidelines and any needed inquires.

Finally, regarding student survey; the results of the survey will be sent before the 8th of May after

implantation and disseminating to our students at the final year. Appropriate coding for statistical

purposes by using SPSS will be done to these results before sending.

M3.1: Training needs assessment (m4):

Workshops on DeCoRe Plus methodology for curriculum revision and development and the CARE

methodology for developing lesson plans and course modules will be discussed in the

forthcoming national training workshop

M3.2: Training staff selection (m6):

Workshops on DeCoRe Plus methodology for curriculum revision and development and the CARE

methodology for developing lesson plans and course modules will be discussed in the

forthcoming national training workshop

M8.l: Dissemination and sustainability (m2-onwards)

The Stakeholder’s survey was sent via on line link to Jordan Agriculture Engineers Association and staff

members at the school of Engineering and faculty of Agriculture in each institution. The assistant

researchers helped in coding the data resulting from the external stakeholders' workshop.

JUST


The kick-off meeting was attended by Prof. Fahmi Abu Al-Rub and Prof. Saeb Khraisat from JUST.

JUST coordinated the hotel bookings and accommodation of all partners at the Holiday Inn dead Sea.

JUST team first represented an overview about the University and its activities, in particular, in topics

related to climate changes, sustainable agriculture, and food security. JUST team also participated in

discussing all WPs, and Prof. Khraisat chaired one of the panel discussions. JUST participated in the

discussion on the partnership agreement and prepared the signed agreement by the university president.

However, due to changes in the presidency of the grant holder, and due to some changes on the

agreement, particularly regarding the local financial management, as it was agreed that JUST to

coordinate the financial management of the local governmental budget.

After the amendments, the agreement was signed by the authorized person at JUST, and sent to the grant

holder by Express mail.


Prof. Abu Al-Rub is managing all JUST activities in the project. JUST team attended most of the local

management meetings. Prof. Abu Al-Rub prepared in the first biannual report and submitted it to the

project coordinator. JUST is managing the budget of all local public universities.


JUST participated in all the surveys, meetings, and workshops that aimed at identifying the barriers and

drivers. Three staff from JUST attended the workshop; Prof. Abu Al-Rub, Prof. Khraisat, and. Eng. Ruba

Hasan. Prof. Kraisat chaired some of the sessions held, and was a moderator for one table. Ruba was a

reporter on one of the tables. The report on this milestone was prepared by UJ, the WP leader, and sent to

the coordinator.

M2.2: Stakeholders' survey for CCSAFS competences (m5)

JUST was active in identifying the stakeholders needs by distributing the surveys for faculty members

and students. JUST has collected about 70 students’ surveys and coded these surveys and sent them to the

grant holder.

M2.3: Colloquia for strengthening stakeholders' inputs (m6)

JUST team participated in the workshop organized by local partners on stakeholders’ survey for CCSAFS

competencies. Three staff from JUST attended the workshop; Prof. Abu Al-Rub, Prof. Khraisat, and. Eng.

Ruba Hasan. Prof. Kraisat chaired some of the sessions held, and was a moderator for one table. Ruba

was a reporter on one of the tables.

M2.4: Guidelines for strengthening stakeholders inputs (m6)

The partners are still working on this milestone; as it is one of the main outputs of the project where a

clear mechanism and guidelines to strengthen the involvement of the stakeholders in the activity of the

project. One of the suggested mechanisms is to involve them in designing the curriculum and to identify

the needed skills and competencies of the graduates. The stakeholders workshop that was held in April is

a good implementation of these mechanisms.

M3.1: Training needs assessment (m4)

The training needs of faculty and students should be identified based on the reports of WP2, in addition to

the qualifications and experience of the selected students and staff for training. Also, it is recommended

to prepare a survey on the training capacity that our EU partners can provide to JO staff and students so

that a match between the needs and available training can enhance the training programs.

M3.2: Training staff selection (m6)

JUST prepared a draft of the list for staff training. The list includes faculty members from the Faculty of

Agriculture. The suggested staff are

1. Prof. Saeb Khraisat

2. Prof. Nexar Samarah

3. Dr. Maher Tadrus


JUST team participated in all dissemination activities of the CCSAFS project; such as the news releases,

CCSAFS stakeholders workshop, kick-off meeting, etc.

M8.2 Project’s Website (m3)

JUST will provide the website coordinator all the needed documents, photos, reports, etc., on activities

carried by its team so that the coordinator post them on the website.

Mutah University

M1.1: Kick-off meeting & consortium agreement (m2):

Mutah University had attended the three day Kick-off meeting and regional workshop which was held in

February 17th -19th at Holiday-Inn Hotel, Dead sea- Jordan. Our team had participated in the following

sessions: Managerial and Financial Issues, Surveying Courses Relevant to CCSAFS, Designing the

CCSAFS Curriculum, Following-up the CCSAFS Curriculum Design Process, Strengthening

Stakeholders Engagement for CCSAFS Curriculum, CCSAFS Validation and Accreditation Procedures,

and finally, CCSAFS Inter-Institutional Coordination and Management. Prof. Omer Al-Maaitah,

CCSAFS contact person at Mutah University represented the team in the panel discussion of the CCSAFS

course curriculum structure and the panel discussion of CCSAFS validation and accreditation procedures.

M1.2: Project management and communication plan (m2):

Mutah team attended all local meetings with other JO partners to make sure to have better management

on the local side, since it's a new experience for us and we have to benefit from other JO universities who

had participated before in Tempus and Erasmus+ projects.

The reason behind those meetings was:

To select the IT in ESD assistants who are going to get the training. One student (Eng. Ibrahim

Kafaween) from Mutah had been selected taking into consideration the selection criteria mentioned in the

proposal and agreed among partners.

Discussing the external stakeholders' workshop and it's arrangements with other Jo universities.

Discussing the Stakeholders Survey and Students Survey.

M2.1: Report on barriers and drivers (m3):

As mentioned in the report which was prepared by Jo team and specially by the Master students Barriers

to adopting sustainable agriculture practices:

•Lack of public awareness about the sustainable agriculture.

•Lack of public awareness about the climate change effects.

•Weakness of regulatory legislations

•Desertification and reduction of marginal lands.

•Immigration from rural to Arabian

•Weakness of agricultural policy about conservation of natural resources and cultivated lands.

•Weak linkage between scientific research and agricultural policy.

•Weakness of financial resources (funding).

•Overgrazing and deforestation

•Lack of stress breeding program.

•Weak cooperation between agricultural companies and research centers.

M2.2: Stakeholders' survey for CCSAFS competences (m5):

The Stakeholder’s survey was sent to Jordan Agriculture Engineers Association-AEA and staff members

at the school of Engineering and faculty of Agriculture in Mutah University. Before that Eng. Ibrahim Al-

Kafaween had contacted personally members from AEA to fill and complete the on-line survey.

M2.3: Colloquia for strengthening stakeholders’ inputs (m6):

Under the patronage of the Vice president for Scientific and Health Faculties Affairs at the University of

Jordan, Prof. Omar Al-Kafaween, the 1st External Stakeholders' Workshop on Climate Change,

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (CCSAFS) was held on Monday April 17th, 2017. At the

University of Jordan, Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II School of International Studies.

The workshop was convened for experts' stakeholders from private and public sector concerned in the

area of Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security, Stakeholders will assist identifying

the followings:

Perceptions of research needed on CCSAFS.

Areas of CCSAFS that external stakeholder think training is needed.

Barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practice.

Ideas of adjusting CCSAFS graduates' competences for the labor market

Mechanisms for improving the linkage between agricultural education and the labor market.

Necessary changes in current agricultural education curricula.

Mutah University participated in all sessions and Prof. Adel Abd Al-Ghani was the moderator of Session

II- Group IV: Barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practice, Eng. Ibrahim Kafaween was the

reporter for session III- Group IV: Mechanisms for improving the linkage between agricultural education

and the labor market, who was responsible to take the notes and summarize the discussion

M2.4: Guidelines for strengthening stakeholders inputs (m6):

Announcement were done to stakeholders to attend the internal workshop from our also, names of those

who confirmed their attendance were sent to Jerash University and a formal invitation was sent to each

stakeholder by JU. A brief presentation highlighting the role of the stakeholders in the project, who will

be involved in the process of design, development and validation of course curricula in the field of

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security was given in the workshop to strength

stakeholder’s knowledge and involvement.

M3.1: Training needs assessment (m4):

will be discussed in the forthcoming national training workshop

M3.2: Training staff selection (m6):

The selected professors will be trained in three national training workshops (NTW) organised during the

design phase of the CCSAFS curriculum, the development phase and the implementation phase. At the

development stage and after the NTW we will organise the 1st Regional Training Workshop, and the 2nd

one will follow after the piloting of the CCSAFS curriculum.

The selected staff from Mutah are:

• Prof. Omer Maaitah

• Prof Yousef Al jaafreh

• Prof. Saif Nawayseh

• Prof. Adel Abd Al-Ghani

• Dr Mohamed Majalee

• Dr. Yazeed Al sbou

• Dr. Atef Mahadeen

• Dr Sameeh Sarayerh

• Eng Samer qaraleh

SEKEM Development Foundation







M8.5: Presentations (e.g. posters and information desks) in various exhibitions completed



M3.3: 1 National training session and 2 regional conducted with the participation of SDF

M4.1: Structured completely developed in-line with the stakeholders’ study previously conducted


M8.4: Some dissemination conducted on the national and international level by SDF

M8.5: Presentations on the CCSAFS were presented in various events including the Cairo Climate

Talks

Suez Canal University


The CCSAFS kick off meeting has been organized by Prof. Vassilis Makrakis, Project Coordinator,

assisted by the Jordanian Local Project Coordinator, Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh, The University of

Jordan. The meeting was held at Holiday Inn Resort-Dead Sea, Amman, Jordan, from 17th -19th February,

2017. Forty six participants belongs to 13 partners attended the meeting. The meeting has been structured

as a three-day event. Five members from SCU participated in the meeting; SCU Project’s Coordinator,

two ICT assistants and two project’s members. During the meeting all partners introduced themselves.

Project Management Board (PMB) was established during this meeting which chaired by Project’s

Coordinator, Prof. Makrakis and comprising the local coordinator from each partner institution. Three

sessions on the overview of the whole project structure, objectives, and methodology, financial and

administrative issues have been outlined. A presentation was provided by Nikos Larios (University of

Crete) on CCSAFS Finance Administration, management of CCSAFS budget (definitions of different

costs, budget categories, supporting documents, purchases regulations, etc). Consortium Agreement was

mailed to Prof. Vassilis after signed and stamped by the university legal representative.


Monitoring and coordinating the projects’ activities and related tasks are mainly managed by the Project

Coordinator Prof. Vassilis Makrakis. E-mails and annual reports are the principle tools for

communication, discussion and concluding feedbacks. Biannual report forms delivered by the Project’s

Coordinator are prepared every six months to monitor the progress of activities and stating any obstacles

facing the smooth running of the project. At the level of internal coordination, regular communication is

performed through coordination meetings and e-mails. Coordination meetings are organized gathering the

project’s team to discuss the required activities (past and future), problems encountered and steps/tasks

allocated for each person. Two coordination meetings were organised, on 27th February and 12th March,

2017. The first presented the details on the project’s objectives, activities and final outcomes, since many

issues were not clear to the members. Presentations on the kick off meeting and first regional workshop

(activities, final conclusions and future activities), Road Map structure and requested activities till April,

2017. Also, comments by the members were discussed included:

1. Engage the Faculty top-managerial staff to assist in preparation and provide facilities to establish

learning labs for CCSAFS MSc program

2. The problem of accreditation process and long time and procedures

3. Enrollment requirements, which disciplines that supports students can come from and how the

attractiveness of the program?

4. How the program will improve the employability of its graduates

5. Diversification of the program and its suitability for students from different specializations.

6. The prerequisite to enroll the program

7. Stakeholders categories depending on the program structure

Importance to establish of dissemination plan. Suggestions are: dissemination through faculty and

department councils, social media, flayers and website. The second workshop was organised to discuss

the necessary arrangements for the key external stakeholders’ survey workshop. The following topics

were discussed:

1. Key stakeholders to be surveying and invited. Suggestions to be from industry, companies,

agricultural syndicates and agricultural extension services, and any organizations belong to

agricultural sectors and other divisions relate with the project’s field as well.

2. Task assignments for each team member. Through personal communication and available data

base in the Faculty of agriculture, each member is responsible for contacting key persons to invite

them either personally or through printed official invitation.

3. Structured survey must be prepared to cover the eight workshop themes for external stakeholders

from Agricultural Associations

4. Data collection methodologies/tools and statistical analysis (qualitative and quantitative) will be

performed by ICT assistants.

5. Preparing PPT presentation on the project objectives, rational, partners; national, regional and

international perspectives, rational for the workshop, essential for external stakeholders

participation in the identification of the CCSAFS students competences, etc.

6. Preparing Workshop agenda and certificate of attendance.

7. Define date and place of workshop organization


Tables on stakeholder’s drivers and barriers; identification and mapping as well were prepared according

to the guidelines by Prof. Vassilis. To complete the Tables, a meeting was organized gathering the

project’s team to discuss types of stakeholders’ categories, its barriers and motivations in the participation

of the project. After four days the team was met again to discuss their feedbacks. The output has been

gathered in the specific table that contains answers. Accordingly a final report based on the prepared table

was prepared and submitted to the Project’s Coordinator on 25th January. Special focus has been made to

categories that usually excluded from curriculum development, such as students, alumni, representatives

from the industry. None of the stakeholder categories was labelled low in level of impact which highlights

the importance of each of them. Besides, there were no clear differences between administrative staff and

registrar and they may be combined together. Also, some confusion was appeared when deciding

perceived attitudes/risks and drivers and barriers.


The survey for CCSAFS competences by external stakeholders was performed by constructing a

structured questionnaire based on the eight themes provided by the project’s coordinator. The features of

the questionnaire was suggested by Rafic Khalil (project’s member) and then discussed during the

coordination meeting by teamwork members. After confirming the questionnaire, it was disseminated by

the members to external stakeholders at Governmental and Non-Governmental Authorities working in

Agricultural sectors, in three governorates (Ismailia, Al-Kantra and Kafr Al-Shikh). We gathered 33

questionnaires, comprising open and closed questions.

Another process to identify CCSAFS competences, external stakeholders’ survey was performed through

organizing a workshop at Faculty of Agriculture, SCU on March, 19th gathering 24 key persons from

Agricultural Extension Services, Agricultural Syndicates, Agricultural Development Companies, Soil

Improvement Sectors, Agricultural Quarantine Authority, Marketing Managers, Biosecurity Management

at Ministry of Environment, Agricultural Research Center, GIS expert, Director of Planning and

Monitoring, Department of Agriculture. The project’s team prepared, and administered the workshop.

Feedbacks from the stakeholders on the CCSAFS competences were collected and reformed by Manal

Hefny and Rafic Khalil. A second workshop was organized by Heliopolis University on 25th of March.

Three members from the SCU teamwork participated in HU workshop. The following eight themes

constituted the core of discussion:

1. External stakeholders' perspectives of climate change, sustainable agriculture and food security in the

partner country (Egypt, Jordan), the MENA region and globally.

2.External stakeholders' perceptions of research needed on CCSAFS

3. Areas of CCSAFS that external stakeholders think training is needed.

4. Barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices.

5. Ideas of adjusting CCSAFS graduates' competences for the labor market.

6. Identify what are the existing competences related to CCSAFS and what are the desired competences.

7. Necessary changes in current agricultural education curricula.

8. Mechanisms for improving the linkage between agricultural education and the labor market.

Data collection, Analysis methodologies, Results *******.

M2.3: Colloquia for strengthening stakeholders' inputs (m6).

Not performed


Not performed


Not performed


Not performed


Dissemination about the project is being performed through: Internal dissemination through official

documentation in the Council of Agronomy Department (department of the project coordinator) and the

Council of Faculty of Agriculture. Information session at the Council of Faculty of Agriculture,

presentation at the External Stakeholders Survey workshop (on 25th of March). Also presentation in the

social networking media, where online survey on design and development of the program courses and

skills was disseminated on online through the following links:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297850060413148/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/agri.scu/


Not performed

The University of Jordan

❖ M1.1: Kick-off meeting & consortium agreement (m5)

Within the activities of WP1: Project Management and Communication plan, which is coordinated by

the University of Crete (UOC); a three-day kick off meeting was organized in the Dead sea-Jordan from

February 17th -19th, 2017. The kick off- meeting was attended by all CCSAFS partners in addition to the

representatives of National Erasmus+ office in Jordan.

Two bodies have been set during the kick-off meeting; the Project Management Board (PMB) and the

Work Package Leaders Board (WPLB) which is led by P1 (UOC). The PMB consists of the project

coordinator and a senior representative from each partner. The Coordinator coming from P1 as a Chair of

both bodies will be in close cooperation with all members and be the contact point between the

Consortium and the European Commission. The WPLB will consist of the leading expert of each WP

The primary responsibility of the WPLB is to coordinate the activities between WPs and monitor

progress and quality of all processes and deliverables, and will be subject to PMB.

The WPLB will also appoint Task Groups for each WP (TGWP1, TGWP2, etc.). The WPL will chair its

own TGWP with full responsibility for the implementation of his/her WP and achieving the related


deliverables. The leader reports to the WPLB. Partners agreed that every 6 months, a management

meeting will be organised for assessing the works of the whole programme.

The CSAFS partnership agreement was reviewed and discussed by the coordinators and It was agreed

that the Partnership agreement should be sent to all partners, to be reviewed, approved and then signed

by the legal representative of each partner. (The signed PSA of UJ was sent to UOC in April, 9th 2017.)

A report about the kick-off meeting including all the decisions taken; has been prepared by UOC with

participants of Jordanian partners.

During the kick-off meeting, the partners conduct panel discussion among institutional coordinators, to

discuss duties derived from the Grant Agreement, then participants were divided into groups to discuss

and identify the professional profiles of CCSAFS MSc programme graduates; and the date for External

Stakeholders' Workshop on Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (CCSAFS) was

determined.

Since the meeting was held in Jordan; UJ took the main responsibility of all logistics and administrative

arrangements such as; hotel reservations, agendas, attendance sheets, management documents…etc.

❖ M1.2: Project management and communication plan (m2)

A project management and communication strategy has been developed by the PMG in cooperation with

the WPLB. A set of online communication tools (chat, e-mail, on-line meetings) is established for faster

and immediate communication, individually and as a group. Biannual activity reports will be prepared

by each TGWP and reported to the WPLB in each partner institution. At the end of the project, all

activities and outcomes will be reported.

In addition to the kick- off meeting, four local meetings were conducted at the university of Jordan in

August, October, March, and April and minutes of meetings were prepared

▪ Meeting 1:

Was held in August 26th, 2016, the followings issues were discussed:

✓ Brief about CCAFS project

✓ The missing document from Jerash University and the Signed Mandate letter

✓ Selection of staff from each partner university,

✓ Selection of computer science graduates in each partner institution, as it is explained in the

methodology, who are going to follow-up the training on ICT in Education for Sustainable

Development, in order to get the appropriate background.

Regarding the teaching staff, the following selection criteria have been taken into consideration:

1) The CCSAFS MSc curriculum,

2) The qualifications of the teaching staff relevant to the CCSAFS MSc curriculum and

3) The status of the selected teaching staff in the partner institutions, especially in the focus institution

(JU), in which the CCSAFS MSc will be implemented.

4) Also, the expertise of CLIMASP should be taken into consideration in the CCSAFS project.

▪ Meeting 2:

Was held in October 5th , 2017.

To select the IT in ESD assistants who are going to get the training. And the certain procedures for

registration were discussed such as filling an application and providing certified copy of their academic

degree.The filled application forms with a certificates and C.Vs. in English was sent to the project

coordinator before the deadline.

▪ Meeting 3&4:

Were held in March 22 th and April 10th , 2017

To discuss the arrangements for the External Stakeholders' Workshop on Climate Change, Sustainable

Agriculture and Food Security (CCSAFS) that will be conducted on Monday, April 17, 2017. The team

agreed on the following agenda, the tasks and responsibilities were distributed among the partners as

follows:

✓ The Workshop will be held at “Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II School of International Studies”.

✓ The expected number of invitees is (40-50) persons.

✓ Stakeholders will be divided into (4) groups according to the topics that will be discussed during

each session; each group will be led by one professor as moderator and one CCSAFS master student

as reporter, who will be responsible to take the notes and summarize the discussion.

✓ All documents, agendas, folders, attendance sheet…etc. will be prepared by the University of Jordan.

Furthermore, in order to facilitate the communication process between Jordanian partners and the

general coordinator; Prof. Al-Salaymeh the CCSAFS project coordinator at UJ was appointed as a local

coordinator for the CCSAFS project in Jordan. The selection of Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh as a local

project coordinator is based on the fact that he has deep knowledge in the field of the CCSAFS project

and experience in philosophy and practicalities of the Erasmus+ projects. He has also functioned as local

coordinator for the CLIMASP project and has been of considerable support the coordination, a formal

letter was addressed to the president of each Jo- partner university.

Another issue that the University of Jordan hosted the written exams of the MSc ICT in ESD students

from Jordan from Frederick University. The exams were in 30th, 31st of January 2017, as well as,

the 2nd and 3rd of February 2017. The Hard copies were sent the Frederick University by DHL.


MoM from Makrakis

No info.


The main objective of the survey is to collect data from internal and external stakeholders relevant to the

design of CCSAFS MSc course curriculum, the questionnaire was developed by UOC based on the

analysis of the data from the workshops in Jordan. The Stakeholder’s survey was sent via on line link to

Jordan Agriculture Engineers Association and staff members at the school of Engineering and faculty of

Agriculture in each institution.

The UJ team followed up this matter with the staff members at the school of Engineering and faculty of

Agriculture in order to guarantee a good number of responses. So, in general UJ’s role was to to

disseminate and monitor the survey both within the faculties of agriculture as well as to any external

stakeholders' networks.

Following is the link in both Arabic and English.

https://goo.gl/forms/BOmLeklS6llFNeXG3


The external stakeholders' workshop was held at the University of Jordan on Monday, April 17, 2017

according to the road-map communicated with the partners earlier and the guidelines for organising the

external stakeholders' workshop that was sent by the project coordinator. This workshop was held in

cooperation with all Jordanian partners who are involved in the CCSASF project.

➢ The exact number of participants was (45) persons.

➢ Stakeholders were divided into (4) groups according to the topics that will be discussed during

each session; each group was be led by one professor as moderator and one CCSAFS master

student as reporter, who was responsible to take the notes and summarize the discussion

Following are the names of the reporters:

• Eng. Asma Smadi

• Eng. Muath Qayyam

https://goo.gl/forms/BOmLeklS6llFNeXG3

• Eng. Ibraheem Kafaween

• Eng. Maha Hawamdeh.

The sessions were as listed below:

• Session I (Opening and Introduction about the Project)

No Action/Task Responsible

1. Registration and logistic services. UOJ

2. Welcoming, getting to know each other and introduction about

the CCSAFS project Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh- UOJ.

3. Need for graduate programs in Climate Change in MENA. Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri- UOJ

• Session II (World Café)

4. Perspectives of climate change, sustainable agriculture and food

security

Prof. Fahmi Abu Al-Rub- JUST

5. Perceptions of research needed on CCSAFS Prof. Mohammad Hamdan- UoJ/

Dr. Mohammad Qinneh (HU)

6. Areas of CCSAFS that external stakeholder think training is

needed.

Dr. Kamel Sultan- JU

7. Barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practice Prof. Adel Abd Al-Ghani- MUTAH

• Session III (World Café)

No Action/Task Responsible

8. Ideas of adjusting CCSAFS graduates' competences for the labor

market.

Dr. Diala Hamidi-UoJ/

Dr. Maysaa Ata-JU

9. Identify what are the existing competences related to CCSAFS

and what are the desired competences.

Prof. Fahmi Abu Al-Rub, JUST/

Prof. Saeb Khraisat-JUST.

10. Necessary changes in current agricultural education curricula. Dr. Ibrahim Al-Tahat, JU/

Dr. Mohammad Al-Tarawneh-JU

11.

Mechanisms for improving the linkage between agricultural

education and the labor market.

Dr. Mohammad Omar -JU

Recommendations on each topics:

1) Perspectives of climate change, sustainable agriculture and food security:

• Climate change will affect the sustainable agriculture and food security.

• Sustainable agriculture needs adaptation with climate change.

• Agriculture sector is vulnerable to climate change and will affect the food security.

• Food availability in Jordan one of the pillars in agriculture.

• Food distribution consists of marketing and affordability.

• Food security understanding is focused mainly on food availability and mostly not related

or linked for affordability.

• Health condition is related to food security and climate change

• Move to climate smart agriculture: how to adopt with changes in climate with agricultural

production (to reach sustainable agriculture and food security).

• Prepare qualified people in this field: will help to reduce climate change issues.

• Adaptation is more needed in our program (breeding programs, water harvesting, etc.).

2) Perceptions of research needed on CCSAFS:

• Add research methodology as a course and research project.

• Data analysis course focusing on statistics

• Research on agricultural risk management

• Sustainable agricultural development

• Research on smart agriculture

• Research on climate change adaptation

• Advanced course on genetic engineering

• Water harvesting course.

• Financial resources (research funding)

• Co-operation among agricultural faculties in Jordan.

• Economics feasibility studies

• Research exchange in other countries universities.

3) Areas of CCSAFS that external stakeholder think training is needed:

• Biotechnology and genetic engineering and the selection of the most suitable plants for

the area.

• Water systems analysis

• Seasonal prediction

• Local Modeling for environmental changes

• Agricultural meteorology

• The relation between agriculture and climatic factors

• Crop modeling

• Adaptation to climate change

• Economics of sustainable Agriculture

• The modern methods used in sustainable agriculture.

• How to manipulate planting dates to be suitable for climate change

• The linking between climate change and sustainable agriculture.

• Training in the field of precision agriculture.

• The knowledge of technology transfer.

• The use of the modern agricultural technology suitable for sustainable agricultural.

• Soil analysis for the best usage of land to sustain its uses.

• The awareness about climate change and environment.

• Learning how to apply smart agricultural systems.

• The determination of the suitable plant type for sustainable agriculture and nutrient value.

• The full knowledge of food security and sustainable agriculture.

• The skills of mitigating the effect of climate change on agriculture.

• The economic assessment and project evaluation.

• The possible ways to cope with the present water shortage in the area and the efficient use

of water resource.

• The best methods for the efficient uses of water without wasting and best methods for

water harvest.

• Acquiring the best extension and communication skills to disseminate the new

technologies among classic farmers.

• The principles of using agricultural patterns and cycles to fulfill the sustainable

agriculture requirements.

• The skills in food storage and preservation in order to achieve food security.

• Knowledge about the salinity affording plant types.

• The modern methods for agricultural marketing.

• Computer and programming skills.

• GIS knowledge and remote sensing and their applications.

• The knowledge of organic agriculture in both animal and plant production.

• The best and efficient methods of using herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and

pesticides.

4) Barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices:

• Lack of public awareness about the sustainable agriculture.

• Lack of public awareness about the climate change effects.

• Weakness of regulatory legislations

• Desertification and reduction of marginal lands.

• Immigration from rural to Arabian

• Weakness of agricultural policy about conservation of natural resources and

cultivated lands.

• Weak linkage between scientific research and agricultural policy.

• Weakness of financial resources (funding).

• Overgrazing and deforestation

• Lack of stress breeding program.

• Weak cooperation between agricultural companies and research centers.

5) Ideas of adjusting CCSAFS graduates' competences for the labor market:

• Advanced statistical analysis related to climate change issues.

• Agricultural technical skills.

• Modeling skills.

• Communication skills.

• Writing skills

• Computers skills.

• Consumer's behaviors.

• Organic farming techniques.

6) Identify what are the existing competences related to CCSAFS and what are the desired

competences:

• There are two master programs related to climate change:

1- In University of Jordan: but this program is energy oriented.

2- In Hashemite University: this program is oriented for arid land management

• The above programs not focused on sustainable agriculture and food security.

So we need new improved program: talking about to apply sustainable agriculture for food security

achievement and climate change reduction

M2.4: Guidelines for strengthening stakeholders inputs (m6) .

A key outcome will be an inventory of the needed student competences and a set of guidelines for

strengthening stakeholders' inputs.

This report will provide the guidelines for strengthening stakeholders’ inputs in design and development

of course curricula in the field of CCSAFS. The guidelines will be derived both from the stakeholders'

survey as well as the identification of drivers and barriers for community-university partnerships that

will strengthen stakeholders' inputs to CCSAFS development. It will also include the results of the first

colloquium for the discussion of the stakeholders’ survey and the guidelines.

Not yet


Using diagnostic tools that have been developed in the previous WP we will organise a training needs

analysis at the level of internal stakeholders (students and teaching staff) in order identify and catalogue

the training needs of the potential teaching staff who are going to get involved both in the design,

development and implementation of the MSc programme in CCSAFS. The Task Group for the WP3 will

organise a consultation with external stakeholders such as local industries and institutions (N=100 key

representatives) through focus interviews as well as alumni (N- 500) using a questionnaire in order to

identify needed competences for constructing the CCSAFS course modules.

Not yet.


The selected professors will be trained in three national training workshops (NTW) organised during the

design phase of the CCSAFS curriculum, the development phase and the implementation phase. At the

development stage and after the NTW we will organise the 1st Regional Training Workshop, and the 2nd

one will follow after the piloting of the CCSAFS curriculum.

The selected staff from UJ are:

• Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri/ Faculty of Agriculture.

• Prof. Mohammad Hamdan/ School of Engineering.

• Dr. Diala Hamidi / Faculty of educational Silences.


Press releases informing about the kick-off meeting of the project were published in the electronic

newspapers in addition to UJ website and many others websites.

News are available via these links:

http://ujnews2.ju.edu.jo/Lists/News/Disp_FormNews1.aspx?ID=8357

http://jordan.shafaqna.com/AR/JO/409387

http://talabanews.net/ar/ مشروع-ماجستير-التغيرات-المناخية-واألمن-الغذائي-ورشة-عمل-في-األردنية


The project website has been created by UOC, when the project website is accessible, UJ will provide,

activities, events, news, staff profiles and list of the stakeholders information’s.

Add to UJ website

Variations (Indicate any differentiation regarding the above tasks and milestones)

Al Azhar University

There are delay in project beginning the actually work start in January 2017.

All this milestones





Project’s Website (m3)

Still not worked on it



http://talabanews.net/ar/مشروع-ماجستير-التغيرات-المناخية-والأمن-الغذائي-ورشة-عمل-في-الأردنية

http://talabanews.net/ar/مشروع-ماجستير-التغيرات-المناخية-والأمن-الغذائي-ورشة-عمل-في-الأردنية

Αswan University

In general, the tasks are almost suitable with the milestone and project work plan.

JUST

Some delays in achieving some milestones. This was mainly due to the delay in organizing the kick-

off meeting. However, all activities have been achieved.


- Organizing first regional workshop is not included in the report as deliverable.

- Online survey is addressed to professionals in agricultural and related sciences (internal and

external stakeholders) to receive their inputs to help in design and develop the program

structure and courses is not included in the report.

- Colloquia for strengthening stakeholders inputs: this deliverable, as identified in the proposal,

should will report on the outcomes of the three (at least) colloquia to be carried out in each

partner country to discuss barriers and drivers of the internal and external stakeholders'

involvement in the CCSAFS project. This is deliverable does not performed


The kick off meeting was supposed to be held in month two, instead it was held in the month five.

Jerash University, Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, Mutah University,


No variations reported.

Current Problems & Risks

Al Azhar University

1- Money exchange rate variation from Euro and Egyptian Pound which will affect in all

activities in our project

2- The Internet is sometimes weak in Egypt, affecting communication

Αswan University

- In some cases, there a lack of clarity of the task and we need to repeat it again as a result. For

example the questionnaire of last year students, we prepare our own questionnaire and analyzed the

data. After that we surprised that another questionnaire has been sent to fill.

JUST

1. Revised version of students’ survey was received by April 30, 2017, which is the date of the

final exams at JUST. Completed surveys were about 70, which was less than the target. JUST

team will try to collect more surveys during the exams and during the summer semester of

2017.

2. The purchase of equipment according to JUST regulations cannot be initiated with having a

budget in the project account. The delay in receiving the first payment may result in a delay in

the purchase of the equipment.


There are some issues getting approvals from the Ministry of Social Solidarity, however this is

currently being solved and the documents are being submitted.


Delay in Setting-up the CCSAFS Infrastructure & LMS Platform (space and furniture are required).

Delay in implementation of the upcoming activities and most importantly is establish center of

excellence for starting CCSAFS MSc program.

The project coordinator wrote a letter to the university president including all necessary information

and outcomes of the projects and asked for his strong support for the establishment of teaching labs.

We are waiting his reply


Some challenges and obstacles were faced, such as the pic number for JU- Jerash University was not

validated, and UJ as a local coordinator has to follow personally this matter until it solved.

Another issue was the lack of interest for the stakeholder to attend the workshop which was held last

April; UJ in cooperation with the three JO-partners had to double the efforts to engage the stakeholder

to the project and to convince them to attend the workshop.

This did not majorly affect the project’s implementation as all were solved immediately.

Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, Jerash University, Mutah University

No problems or risks reported

Anticipated Problems & Risks

Al Azhar University

Instability in the political & safety situation


It is expected that there may be some issues in finding participants and companies interested in taking

part in the masters degree after it is developed as it is a very new and novel concept

JUST

Delay in purchasing the equipment


Accreditation and validation of the MSc program is a long process. Therefore identify the courses and

developing the syllabus are fundamentals to apply for accreditation from the MHE and NAQAAE.

Without accreditation, the program has no value.


• Regarding the equipment

• Stakeholder engagement and involvement of key stakeholders in the process of design,

development and validation of course curricula in the field of Climate Change, Sustainable

Agriculture and Food Security.

• The potential professors who will be trained in three national training workshops (NTW) and

the 1st RTW organised during the design phase of the CCSAFS curriculum might leave or take

a vacation from the University

• It might be difficult to guarantee the presence of the staff during all online communication and

trainings.

Αswan University, Jerash University, Mutah University, SEKEM Development Foundation

No anticipated problems or risks reported

Additional Information of Notable Achievements

Al Azhar University

Centre of Excellence in Al Azhar university is being capitally constructed

All staff of Al Azhar Team CCSAFS members also collected survey of course syllabi for

undergraduate student of faculty of agriculture Al Azhar university related to CCSAFS

Al Azhar university invited ten of external stockholders to attend the workshop "External

Stakeholders' Workshop on Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security" (CCSAFS).

The workshop is scheduled at Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development on Saturday 25th

March, 2017 at 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.


Dissemination of the CCSAFS project in countries outside of the consortium including Germany, and

the dissemination of CCSAFS in the delta region in Egypt such as Al-Menoufia.

Αswan University, Jerash University, JUST, Mutah University, SEKEM Development

Foundation , Suez Canal University, The University of Jordan

Νο additional information of Notable Achievement provided.

Details on Capacity Building

Al Azhar University

Number of academic staff from the partner country’s Higher

Education Institutions (professors, assistants with teaching tasks,

etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 1st biannual report

submission:

Male

5

Female

0

Number of non-academic staff from the partner country’s

Higher Education Institutions (librarians, staff from the

International Office, IT specialists, etc.) trained/retrained to the

date of the 1st biannual report submission:

Male

1

Female

0

Number of staff from the partner country’s non Higher

Education Institutions (enterprises, NGOs, Chambers of

Commerce, Government, local administration, etc.)

trained/retrained to the date of the 1st biannual report submission:

Male

0

Female

0

Number of students from the partner countries who have

attended programmes/courses developed in the framework of

the project to the date of the 1st biannual report submission:

Male

0

Female

0

Αswan University




submission:

Male

6

Female

0





Male

0

Female

0




trained/retrained to the date of the 1st biannual report

submission:

Male

0

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0



Education Institutions (professors, assistants with teaching

tasks, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 1st biannual

report submission:

Male

3

Female

3





Male

0

Female

0





submission:

Male

2

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0

Jerash Uinversity





submission:

Male

4

Female

2





Male

0

Female

0





Male

0

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0

JUST




report submission:

Male

0

Female

0



Male

0



Female

0





submission:

Male

0

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0

Μutah University




report submission:

Male

0

Female

0





Male

0

Female

0





submission:

Male

0

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0





report submission:

Male

0

Female

0





Male

0

Female

0





submission:

Male

0

Female

3




Male

0

Female

0





report submission:

Male

3

Female

2





Male

0

Female

0





submission:

Male

0

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0

Τhe University of Jordan




submission:

Male

0

Female

0





Male

0

Female

0





Male

0

Female

0


attended programmes/courses developed in the framework of the

project to the date of the 1st biannual report submission:

Male

0

Female

0

Progress in terms of equipment purchase (Describe what you have done, providing proofs with

documents)

Al Azhar University

Al Azhar university started to contact with three different companies to purchase the project

equipment as mention in project except instead of upgrade computer we will purchase new computer

Αswan University

We begin preparing the technical specifications of equipment purchase


Offers for the equipment are currently being solicited and will be purchased before the end of the

year.

Jerash Uinversity

We received the budget of equipment allocated to our university with what this budget will be spent

for. On the other hand, we are these days doing our tendering procedure to obtain competitive offers

from three suppliers. Proofs will be attached to the next few days.

JUST

The specifications of the PCs have been finalized. We are waiting to receive the first payment in order

to submit the tender.


In the process of purchasing equipment needed for the establishment of CCSAFS Centre of

Excellence, a committee of three members was formed to discuss and decide the categories,

specifications and quantities. The table was e-mailed to many suppliers, requesting prices offers.

Τhe University of Jordan A list of needed equipment for the ICT laboratories was prepared and discussed on the level of UJ

staff with a considerable attention to the instructions and guidelines provided by the general project

coordinator. The technical specification for all items have been approved by the Computer Centre at

UJ

• 30 Personal Computers including a Laser Printer and Scanner.

• Software for supporting INMPDEiE courses such as GIS, and other GEO/Spatial tools. Once the 1st instalment received, a formal letter will be sent to the UJ financial unit to reserve budget

for purchasing the equipment along with the document on VAT exempt from taxes, and then the

tendering procedure will be launched to obtain competitive offers from at least three suppliers and

retain the one offering best value for money.

The computer lab will be established at the faculty of Agriculture, exclusively to be used for the

CCSAFS programme. Dissemination Activities Completed

Al Azhar University

1- Team of AZHU participated in kick off meeting in Jordan (16-21 Feb. 2017)

2- Team of AZHU prepared and participated for external stakeholders workshop and invited

Governmental and businessmen

3- We started to prepare for internal stakeholders workshop in Al Azhar University

4- We send email to 3 companies to buy equipment’s

Αswan University

The information of the CCSAFS project and its news has been discussed in the formal Meeting of

both Faculty council and University council. Also, the news has been displayed in the Faculty of

Agriculture and Natural Resources website and Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-

%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-

%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9-

%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-183209461873915/?ref=br_tf

https://www.facebook.com/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-183209461873915/?ref=br_tf





The project was disseminated internally in the university to members of the different faculties during

research meetings and other events. Furthermore, the project has been disseminated in online media

including online news papers, in interviews, etc. Also, the project was disseminated in a prominent

even in Germany as well as in the Cairo Climate Talks in Al-Menoufia.

JUST

First CCSAFS stakeholders’’ workshop. JUST participated in the first stakeholders workshop which

was held at JU.

SEKEM Development Foudnation

The project was disseminated internally in the NGO and with selected partners and institutions that

might be interested in participating. The project was also disseminated on online media including

online news sides, videos, etc.


-Official documentation in the Council of Agronomy Department, Committee of Post-graduates

Affairs and Council of Faculty of Agriculture. (official letter is attached)

-Presentation at External Stakeholders Survey Workshop (workshop invitation, PPT presentation,

certificate of attendants, attendant’s sheet, workshop agenda, photos).

- Information sessions on the project for under-graduate students (third and fourth-year students).

-Publication through Web links

https://www.facebook.com/groups/125746247613805/?fref=nf


https://www.facebook.com/groups/144043779418820/permalink/202053100284554/



https://www.facebook.com/groups/125746247613805/?fref=nf






https://www.facebook.com/groups/182024858797660/ (Sustainable Development Practices)


• Dissemination of the project during the Stakeholder’s competences workshop.



Dissemination Activities- Forthcoming

Al Azhar University

Design leaflet and brochures N= 500

Poster = 100

Events with three workshops and one local university conference N= 100 participant of external

stockholders and Alumni students and university leaders

Aswan University

- Workshops

- Leaflets and banners

- Website

JUST

1. JUST will participate in the forthcoming workshop which is planned to be in Amman in summer

2017.

2. JUST will organize an info day during November 2017.

3. JUST will participate in the preparation of all dissemination materials.

4. JUST will distribute all dissemination materials on the project at JUST


-Printed and electronic brochures,

-Presentation in the upcoming conference on Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr El-

Shiekh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, October, 2017


• Info day about the CCSAFS project will be held at The University of Jordan with the

participation of other Jo partners during the 1st NTW.

• Promotional Materials such as Brochures, folders and pens will be produced by UJ to

disseminate the project during the planned events.

• News will be released informing about the NTWs and RTWs, and the project implementation.


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CCSAFS BIANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT

[May 2017- October 2017]

Name of Partner Institution CCSAFS Partners: Al Azhar University, Aswan

University, Heliopolis University for Sustainable

Development (HUSD), Jerash University, Jordan

University of Science and Technology (JUST), Mutah

University, SEKEM Development Foundation (SDF), Suez

Canal University, Τhe University of Jordan

Progress Against Milestones

Al Azhar University

M1.2: Project management and communication plan and meetings completed (m12)

A set of online communication by e-mail established individually between ALZU team

member and other national or regional partners. Through this flow of communications, we

discussed all tasks required and share all ideas related to Project management and

communication plan.

Management meeting 27-29 September 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Dr. Ahmed Nabil (Project supervisor and LEER) and Dr. Said Desouky from ALZU team

were attended this meeting. The main results obtained from this meeting were be summarised

as; they participated in two workshops to figure out mission, vision, goals and activities of

CoEs. Also, during this meeting all partners discussed about reconstruction of optional courses

again as one package during first and second semesters and the final semester will be for

thesis preparation. In addition P6 representative cooperated with other partners to identify the

ILO’S for courses. After this workshop Prof. Makrakis demonstrated the key dates and steps

for process of course development, also mentioned about external peer review will be done by

expert from Lebanon after finalising courses development processes before 2nd National

training workshop which will be held at Aswan University during 25-27 January 2018 for

Egyptian partners. During this meeting also, MSc course curriculum development was

distributed between PC.

M1.3: Biannual progress report (m12)

Current report will be submitted to Prof. Makrakis as M 1.3 (m12)

M2.2: Report on “Voice of the Client” survey completed (m5).

After world coffee meeting with external stakeholders at Heliopolis University and internal stakeholders survey we sent online survey to external stakeholders about courses selection,

skills and we analysed their suggestion which later on directly or indirectly considered in

definition of core and optional courses for CCSAFS .

M2.3: 3x 2 PCs colloquia

ALZU held workshop for internal stakeholders to discuss barriers and drivers of the

CCASAFS .In this workshop there was survey for final year undergraduate students and ICT

student was collected data on CCSAFS student competences. This data was delivered as report

for 125 student and submitted to Prof. Makrakis.

M2.4: Report on guidelines for strengthening stakeholders

1- External Stakeholder Survey Workshop

On the 25th of March 2017, Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development held a

workshop for external stakeholders of the CCSAFS project in Cairo. This was a joint

workshop between both HUSD and Al-Azhar University . As such, experts in agriculture were

invited from around Cairo to attend and participate in the workshop. as a result of the of this

workshop it is recommended that when designing the CCSAFS curricula many different

aspects should be considered including additional competencies, and the methods of designing

the curricula. Main take-aways include the importance of engaging students for designing the

curricula, finding more practical, hands-on methods of education, using new technologies in

the agricultural methods, and so on. Finally, it is also recommended that future workshop

place a stronger emphasis on discussing the issues of Food Security and balancing out the

various aspects of the CCSAFS project in a more equitable manner.

2- Student Stakeholder survey

ALZU Team targeted final year undergraduate agriculture student’s survey nearly 125 student

responded this survey.

The key results of these two stakeholders’ surveys:

CCSAFS course contains 120 ECTS CCSAFS programme is structured in four academic

semesters: three semesters are devoted to course work and the fourth to the research thesis.

There are mandatory and optional courses, each of which weight 5 ECTS (credits).

M3.1: National training workshop

National training workshop was held in Heliopolis University. ALZU team discussed

CCSAFS Stakeholders Survey Results and their Impact on Course Curriculum. Staff attended

training on how to use The DeCoRe Plus and CARE methodology for Developing the

CCSAFS Course Modules and work in groups to apply this practical. In second day, we

discuss Discussion on the CCSAFS Course Curriculum and Developing the CCSAFS Course

Syllabi and Modules.

M3.2: 50 Trainee staff selected

ALZU team shares as Trainee staff during the first national training workshop and its

assessment which done during 30 July to 1 August 2017. ALZU team well trained in the

CARE Methodology for Developing CCSAFS Course Modules, Also, ALZU team Worked in

Groups: Applying the DeCoRe plus and CARE Methodology on Selected Curricula

So, During this workshop ALZU team well trained how to write course syllabus regards to

Msc CCSAFS selected course

M4.1: MSc. in CCSAFS programme structure and courses developed

ALZU team discussed the report related to Structure and Course Curriculum of the MSc in

CCSAFS Based on the results of the two NTW in Egypt and Jordan, summarizes the

structure and course curriculum of the MSc CCSAFS as Six core courses, two in each of the

three semesters, weighted to 10 ECTS and one option makes 30 ECTS in each semester. And

another comment in his report belong to optional courses was provide some variation due to

some different needs in Egypt and Jordan. For example, students in Egypt can choose the

course “Sustainable Fisheries and Food Security”, while students in Jordan can choose the

course “Unsaturated Soil in Arid and Semi-arid Region” (A new course suggested by Mutah

University)

During management meeting 27-29 September 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus during this meeting all

partners agreed with reconstruction of optional courses again as one package during first and

second semesters and the final semester will be for theses preparation.

M4.2: CCSAFS MSc. course syllabi and course modules

During the first national training workshop Egypt 30 July to 1 August 2017 ALZU team well

trained to how write course syllabi and course modules

During management meeting 27-29 September 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus all partners distribute

all optional and core courses to begin work on course syllabi and course modules ALZU team

began in writing courses selected for its side

M5.1: 8 Centres of Excellence for CCSAFS

During meeting that was held at Nicosia, Cyprus. Dr. Ahmed Nabil (Project supervisor and

LEER) and Dr. Said Desouky from ALZU discussed with other partners about how to develop

the centre of excellence (CoEs) in each university and workshop was held to figure out

mission, vision, specific goals and all activities related to CoEs. The outcomes of this session

were polished from all team members and ICT student

M5.2: 8 Blended Learning Laboratories

All ALZU Team staff member prepare for establishing blended learning laboratories by

beginning in purchase equipment

M7.2: Reports on monitoring and external quality assurance issued (m12)

During monitoring meeting directed by Erasmus office in Egypt on 15 October 2017 which

hosted by Heliopolis university, ALZU team responded and prepared all needed documents

for investigation. Also ALZU team presented two sessions on behalf of Egyptian PC

(objective of CCSAFS and CoEs). After presentation an open dissection was Directed with

Dr. Doaa, a reprehensive of EU Erasmus office in Egypt, and all inquiries and questions were

answered from our party.

M8.2 Project’s Website

Project website was designed and now it contains all Project workshop and activities link of it:

http://www.ccsafs.edc.uoc.gr/ccsafs-project/

Aswan University

During the last period from May to October 2017, Aswan University achieved many tasks

related to different work packages. Some of this tasks already finished during the first half

(Octobet 2016- April 2017), but they were discussed and finalized during the second half

(May-October 2017)

WP1. Project Management and Communication

In addition to communication through internet and web Wiki based tools, Aswan University

team participated in two meetings, national and managerial, during this period.

1- National meeting and training workshop (July30 – Aug 1, 2017- Heliopolis University,

Egypt) Five members of Aswan University team participated in the meeting (attached:

CCSAFS National meeting Agenda). During this meeting, previous workshops and studies

were reviewed including CCSAFS Stakeholders Survey Results and their Impact on Course

Curriculum.

The training workshops included:

- Training on Reorienting Curricula for to Address SD & ESD

- The CCSAFS Course Module Template

- The DeCoRe Plus methodology for Developing the CCSAFS Course Modules

- Applying the CARE Methodology for Developing CCSAFS Course Modules

- Structuring the CCSAFS Curriculum

- Developing the CCSAFS Course Syllabi and Modules

- Using Moodle and other ICT tools for delivering course content

In addition to discussions of planning the CCSAFS Validation and Accreditation Procedures,

partners’ plan for equipment purchase, issues on staff cost and documentation, and issues on

CCSAFS dissemination

http://www.ccsafs.edc.uoc.gr/ccsafs-project/

2- Managerial meeting and regional training workshops (September 27-29, 2017- Nicosia

Cyprus)

Four members of Aswan University team chaired by Prof. Ahmed Ghallab- President of the

University- participated in the meeting (attached: CCSAFS Managerial meeting Agenda).

During this meeting, the two national trainings in Egypt and Jordan were reviewed. This is

mainly included reflections on partners’ CCSAFS course selection feedback. Also, managing

the validation and accreditation of the MSc programme were discussed.

The training workshops included:

- Developing the centers of Excellence on CCSAFS

- The key learning outcomes of MSc programme

Also important topics were discussed including managing the team of for MSc course

curriculum development, and managing the CCSAFS institutional administration and finan\\

WP2. Situation Analysis & Strengthening Multi-stakeholder Inputs

All activities of this WP were finished during the first half, and have been discussed and

finalized in the national meeting.

WP3. Capacity Building for CCSAFS Curriculum Development

& Implementation

Aswan University team participated in all training workshops which take place during the

national and managerial meetings in Egypt and Cyprus (explained above).

WP4. Development & Accreditation of CCSAFS Curriculum

M4.1. CCSAFS programme structure and courses Aswan University team participated in all stage of CCSAFS structure and courses determination. This WP already finalized during the managerial meeting in Cyprus (attached:

CCSAFS course selection feedback).

M4.2. CCSAFS course syllabi and course modules and M4.3. Validation and

accreditation of CCSAFS programme These WPs has been discussed and Aswan University team has been trained and participated on all discussions, which have been held during the two meetings and through emails and

internet.

WP5. Setting-up the CCSAFS Infrastructure & LMS Platform

M5.1. Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS Aswan University team participated in all activities related to establishment of Excellence

center. This included identifying the center vision, mission, objectives, activities, etc. (attached: CCSAFS Center of Excellence).

WP7. Monitoring and Quality Assurance

Monitoring meeting (October 15, 2017- Heliopolis, Egypt) Aswan University participated on the monitoring of Erasmus office in Egypt by two

members. During the monitoring, Aswan University team presented their rules and advances in the projects (Attached: Monitoring meeting Agenda).

WP8. Dissemination, Valorisation and Sustainability Aswan University achieved dissemination regarding the project through different ways including newspapers, internet, social media,etc.






M5.1: 8 Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS established



M8.5: Presentations (e.g. posters and information desks) in various exhibitions

completed



M3.3: 1 National training session held at HUSD and 2 regional conducted with the

participation of HUSD

M4.1: Structured completely developed in-line with the stakeholders’ study previously

conducted


M5.1: The Center of Excellence was established at HUSD

M5.2: Work is in progress for establishing the Blended Learning Laboratories

M8.4: Some dissemination conducted on the national and international level by HUSD M8.5: Presentations on the CCSAFS were presented in various events including the Cairo Climate Talks

Jerash University

In this field we did the following:

1- We participated and constructed the 1st National Training Workshop in Jordan which was held

at Geneva Hotel – Amman between August, 10-12, 2017. In This workshop, the curriculum

was prepared and the suggested courses were discussed thoroughly. The curriculum was

finalised according to the instructions of the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of

Higher Education.

The group discussed the criteria of the courses and the background of the targeted students

that should be involved in this program and came up with the following notes:

The final results of the on line survey results:

Criteria of Courses:

a. The MSc courses should reflects the goal of the program and emphasize the main

subjects included (CC, SA, and FS).

b. Cover the competences, knowledge and skills regarding the CCSAFS subjects.

c. Meet the labour market needs.

d. Cover the local, regional and global perspectives.

e. Facilitate and use new technologies during courses applications.

f. Make an interaction between social economics, political and biophysical aspects for

solving problems.

g. Building up students’ leadership and organization through these courses.

h. Core courses should open horizons for graduate research skills, while optional courses

should give specific knowledge and technical skills for students.

The Students Background:

a. The priority goes to Agriculture Sciences students as the targeted population for this

program.

b. Secondly, Students specialize in Engineering (Civil, and Environmental)

c. At the third place, students holding a degree in Science (Biology and Geology)

d. At last, this program could accept students holding a degree in Economics and Social

Sciences.

Session 2: Developing the CCSAFS Course Syllabi and Modules

Deciding on the CCSAFS Core and Optional Courses.

Group Work- Notes:

The group discussed the proposed core and optional courses provided by the European team to

choose the most valuable courses to the program and decide how much credit hours and ECTs

needed for each course, the suggestions and comments of the groups were as follow:

Core courses:

Semester List of Courses / Semester Credit Hours (CH) ECTs

First 1. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation 3 12

2. Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Security 3 12

Second 1.Research Methods and Advance Statistical Analysis 3 12

2. Sustainable Management of Soil and Water 3 12

Third 1.Economics of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security 3 12

Total 5 Courses 15 60

For the 6th core course that was proposed (Sustainable Disease Management): the content of

this course might be covered by the other suggested core courses through the semesters.

- The total core courses will be 5 courses, each course is equivalent to 12 ECTs.

# Optional Courses:

The group discussed the proposed optional courses and suggested the following:

- Exclude both Sustainable Grassland and Sustainable Livestock Courses and replace

them with a new course such as, Sustainable Livestock Management and Food Security.

- A course in Economy such as (Economy of Environment and Land Recourses) might

be added to the optional courses.

- Other optional courses that were proposed would be kept as it is in the program.

- Student should study total of 3 optional courses through the semesters.

- Each optional course is equivalent to 3 CH and 10 ECTs, which will make a total of 9

CH and 30 ECTs through the program study period.

- Research work will take 9 CH, which is equivalent to 30 ECTs.

#Conclusions:

- The total of the Study period will be 33 CH, which is equivalent to 120 ECTs.

- In the first and second semester: 2 core courses and one optional will be offered to

students.

- In the third semester: one core course and 2 optional will be offered to students.

- The last semester will be for the research work.

The agenda of this workshop is shown below:

Developing a MSc Programme in Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food

Security (CCSAFS)

National Training Workshop in Jordan

(10, 12) August 2017

Geneva Hotel-Amman, Jordan.

Day 1 – 10/8/17 Thursday

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-10:00

Welcoming by:

1. Dr. Ebrahim Al-Tahat- CCSAFS Coordinator at Jerash University

2. Prof. Vasilios Makrakis- CCSAFS Project General Coordinator

3. Dr. Reem Al-Khader- National Erasmus+ Office in Jordan.

10:00-13:30 Session 1: Course Curriculum Planning

10:00-10:30

CCSAFS Stakeholders Survey Results and their Impact on Course

Curriculum

Prof. Vassilios Makrakis (University of Crete), Project Coordinator

10:30-11.00 Discussion and Planning

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:30 Workshop: Deciding on the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

Work in Groups led by Dr. Aravella Zachariou (Frederick University)

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30 Session 2: Structuring the CCSAFS Curriculum

15:00-16:30

Presenting results of the previous workshop

(Presentation of the Group Results)

Discussion and Finalisation of the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

Led by Prof. Saeb Khresat-Jordan University of Science and

Technology.

16:30-18:00 Session 3: CCSAFS Validation and Accreditation Procedures

16:30-17:00 Planning the Validation Procedures for the CCSAFS MSc Programm

Prof. Fahmi Abu Al-Rub/ Jordan University of Science and Technology.

17:00-17:30 Planning the Accreditation Procedures for the CCSAFS MSc

Programme

17:30-18:00 Discussion

Day 2 – 12/8/17 Saturday

9:30-12:30 Session 4: Developing the CCSAFS Course Syllabi and Modules

9:30-10:00 The CCSAFS Course Module Template

Prof. Vassilios Makrakis & Prof. Nelly Kostoulas

10:00-10.30 The DeCoRe Plus & CARE Methodology in Developing the CCSAFS

Course Modules



11:00-12:30 Applying the DeCoRe plus and CARE Methodology Dr. Aravela Zachariou

Work in Groups

12:30-14:30 Session 5: CCSAFS Administration and Financial Issues

12:30-13:00 Partners’ plan for equipment purchase

(Each partner either individually or in groups will present its plan for the

equipment purchase).

1. The University of Jordan, Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri.

2. Jordan University of Science and Technology, Fahmi Abu Al-Rub

3. MUTAH University, Prof. Mahadeen

13:30- 14:00 Discussion

14:00-15:30 Lunch

15:30-16:00 Issues on staff cost and documentation

(Each partner institution should present its plan up to the intermediate report)

16:00-16:30

Issues on CCSAFS dissemination

16:30-17.00 Preparing for the second biannual report

17:00-17:30 Consultations

Dr. Ebraheem Al Tahat the CCSAFS Coordinator at Jerash University was in the welcoming

of this event.

There was a training session about Applying the DeCoRe plus and CARE Methodology in the

preparation and the structuring of curriculum of the CCSAFS master programme.

The Attendance sheets at the first and the second day are shown Below:

2- Dr. Ebraheem Al-Tahat participated in the Managerial Meeting and Regional Training

Workshop held at Sep, 27-29, 2017 in Nicosia CYPRUS. Dr. Ebraheem made his first

presentation at the first day about the case in Jordan in preparing and constructing

3- CCSAFS master programme curriculum. On day 2 Dr. Ebraheem made his presentation

about Planning for the 2nd National Training Workshops.

JUST

4. 1st National Training Workshop in Jordan which was held at Geneva Hotel –

Amman between August, 10-12, 2017:

- Three staff of JUST participated in this workshop, which was dedicated for

development of the CCSAFS curriculum.

- Prof. Abu Al-Rub presented a lecture on Planning the Validation Procedures for

the CCSAFS MSc Programm. He discussed Jordanian accreditation requirements

for any MSc program.

- JUST team participated in developing the criteria for admission

- JUST team participated in the working groups to develop the courses needed in the

curriculum

- JUST team attended the training sessions on Applying the DeCoRe and CARE

Methodology in the preparation and the structuring of curriculum of the CCSAFS

master programme.

5. Local Meeting, UJ, Nov. 2, 2017

- JUST team attended the local meeting held at UJ on Nov. 2, to discuss the

curriculum for the MSc. Program and to agree on the courses to be developed by

JO partners.

- JUST team agreed to develop the following courses

1. Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Sustainable Agriculture- UNIPAD)

2. Sustainable Management of Soil and Water (Water Resources Management-UNIPAD)

3. Sustainable and Ethical Livestock Management

6. Curriculum of the MSc Program

JUST team has started in developing the courses agreed on. It is expected that by Feb. 2018,

at least one course will be completed.


Security (CCSAFS)

National Training Workshop in Jordan

(10, 12) August 2017

Geneva Hotel-Amman, Jordan.

Day 1 – 10/8/17 Thursday


9:30-10:00

Welcoming by:

4. Dr. Ebrahim Al-Tahat- CCSAFS Coordinator at Jerash University

5. Prof. Vasilios Makrakis- CCSAFS Project General Coordinator

6. Dr. Reem Al-Khader- National Erasmus+ Office in Jordan.

10:00-13:30 Session 1: Course Curriculum Planning

10:00-10:30

CCSAFS Stakeholders Survey Results and their Impact on Course

Curriculum


10:30-11.00 Discussion and Planning


11:30-13:30 Workshop: Deciding on the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

Work in Groups led by Dr. Aravella Zachariou (Frederick University)

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30 Session 2: Structuring the CCSAFS Curriculum

15:00-16:30

Presenting results of the previous workshop

(Presentation of the Group Results)

Discussion and Finalisation of the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

Led by Prof. Saeb Khresat-Jordan University of Science and

Technology.

16:30-18:00 Session 3: CCSAFS Validation and Accreditation Procedures

16:30-17:00 Planning the Validation Procedures for the CCSAFS MSc Programm

Prof. Fahmi Abu Al-Rub/ Jordan University of Science and Technology.

17:00-17:30 Planning the Accreditation Procedures for the CCSAFS MSc

Programme

17:30-18:00 Discussion

Day 2 – 12/8/17 Saturday

9:30-12:30 Session 4: Developing the CCSAFS Course Syllabi and Modules

9:30-10:00 The CCSAFS Course Module Template


10:00-10.30 The DeCoRe Plus & CARE Methodology in Developing the CCSAFS

Course Modules



11:00-12:30 Applying the DeCoRe plus and CARE Methodology Dr. Aravela Zachariou

Work in Groups

12:30-14:30 Session 5: CCSAFS Administration and Financial Issues

12:30-13:00 Partners’ plan for equipment purchase

(Each partner either individually or in groups will present its plan for the

equipment purchase).

1. The University of Jordan, Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri.

2. Jordan University of Science and Technology, Fahmi Abu Al-Rub

3. MUTAH University, Prof. Mahadeen

13:30- 14:00 Discussion

14:00-15:30 Lunch

15:30-16:00 Issues on staff cost and documentation

(Each partner institution should present its plan up to the intermediate report)

16:00-16:30

Issues on CCSAFS dissemination

16:30-17.00 Preparing for the second biannual report


Μutah University

In this field we did the following:

First: Mutah team (Prof Maaitah, Majalee and Mahasneh) attend all the national meeting that

held at University of Jordan. Also, contributing with other partner in preparing and

contrbutingin the national workshop with stakeholder in Amman.

4. Second: Mutah team participated and constructed with Jo partner in the 1st National

Training Workshop in Jordan which was held at Geneva Hotel – Amman between

August, 10-12, 2017 (EU partner attend this workshop). Our staff (Dr. Majalee, Dr

Mahsneh and Dabour) contributed in this workshop. In this workshop, the curriculum

was prepared and the suggested courses were discussed. The curriculum was finalised

according to the instructions of the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of

Higher Education. The agenda of this workshop sent to all partner after the approve

from all Jo partner and grant holder (Prof. Vasilios Makrakis- CCSAFS Project

General Coordinator). The

National Erasmus+ Office in Jordan (Dr. Reem Al-Khader) was invited and she attended.

The partner discussed the criteria of the courses and the background of the targeted students

that should be involved in this program and came up with the following notes:

The outcome of the national workshop between Jo and EU partner on line survey

results:

A- Criteria of selection the courses:

1. The courses should meet the industry requirement

2. The master courses should be harmonic with the goal of the program and

emphasize the main subjects included (CC, SA, and FS).

3. Cover the competences, knowledge and skills regarding the CCSAFS subjects.

4. Cover the local, regional and global perspectives.

5. Facilitate and use new technologies during courses applications.

6. Make an interaction between social economics, political and biophysical aspects

for solving problems.

7. Building up students’ leadership and organization through these courses.

8. Core courses should open horizons for graduate research skills, while optional

courses should give specific knowledge and technical skills for students.

B- Students Background:

j. The priority goes to Agriculture Sciences students as the targeted population for this

program.

k. Students specialize in Engineering (Civil, and Environmental)

l. At the third place, students holding a degree in Science (Biology and Geology)

m. At last, this program could accept students holding a degree in Economics and Social

Sciences.

Third: All partner discussed the proposed core and elective courses provided by the European

partner to choose the most valuable courses to the program and decide how much credit hours

and ECTs needed for each course, the suggestions and comments of the groups were as

follow:

A-Core courses:








- For the 6th core course that was proposed (Sustainable Disease Management): the

content of this course might be covered by the other suggested core courses through the

semesters.


B-Elective Courses:

The partner discussed the proposed elective courses and then they made some suggestion as

follows:

1. Exclude both Sustainable Grassland and Sustainable Livestock Courses and

replace them with a new course such as, Sustainable Livestock Management

and Food Security.

2. A course in Economy such as (Economy of Environment and Land

Recourses) might be added to the optional courses.

3. Other optional courses that were proposed would be kept as it is in the

program.

4. Student should study total of 3 optional courses through the semesters.

5. Each optional course is equivalent to 3 CH and 10 ECTs, which will make a

total of 9 CH and 30 ECTs through the program study period.

6. Research work will take 9 CH which is equivalent to 30 ECTs.

Fourth: the partner end up with some point as follows:

5. The total of the Study period will be 33 CH, which is equivalent to 120 ECTs.

6. In the first and second semester: 2 core courses and one optional will be offered

to students.

7. In the third semester: one core course and 2 optional will be offered to students.

8. The last semester will be for the research work.

Fifth: Mutah team contribute in workshop that held in Nicosia-Cyprus (27-29 September) by

Prof Omer Maaitah, Saif Nawayseh, Atef Mahadeen and Mohamed Majalee. During this

international workshop a good progress was achieved

6. The name of core and elective course were selected

7. The framework of the master was finalized

8. The accreditation procedures and number of credit hour were discussed and agreed

according to the criteria of Higher education ministry

9. The name of each course and the team who is going to develop this module/course

from Jo and EU partner were agreed

10. The next meeting was selected Aswan-Egypt in 25-29 January/2018

Sixth: Mutah team (Prof Omer Maaitah) contribute in local meeting in Jordan University 2

November 2017

5. Emphasize on the courses and the name of each staff is responsible for each course

6. For Mutah (Prof Omer Maaitah will be responsible for developing two courses and Dr

Mohamed will be responsible for one

7. Arranging to the next nation workshop

8. Mutah and JUST will buy the equipment in the same tender. The equipment will be as

PC computer

Padova University

Progress Against Milestones (Provide information of your contribution during the second half

of the first year of the CCSAFS project. In particular, state all your actions you have done that

led to the structure and course selection. Also, state your participation in the course syllabi

development, presenting the names of staff in the related courses).

In May the Padova University team administered a student survey on Sustainable Agriculture

master students.

In July the Padova University team collaborated in analysing the proposed course structure

and prepared the feedback for Padova Unit on the courses selection.

The Padova University team participated and contributed to the NTW in Cairo – Egypt (29/7-

1/8). During the Cairo meeting, the Padova University team actively collaborated in the

definition of the course structure, suggesting to reduce the number of courses in the

curriculum while increasing each course ECST, also suggesting the possibility of modules

within the courses. In addition, the Padova University team commented on the tile and

structure of the courses. The Padova University team coordinated, in collaboration with Dr.

Nehal Lofty the draft of a report on the structure of the master course.

During September 2017 the Padova University team collaborated in analysing the second

proposed course structure and prepared the feedback on the course structure.

The Padova University team participated to the Managerial meeting in Nicosia – Cyprus

(26/9-30/9). During the meeting, the syllabi were discussed with the Egyptian partner

university and it was analysed the possibility of a dual degree with Padova Master course.

Moreover, during the Nicosia meeting, the Padova University team coordinated the

preparation of the template of the CCSAFS Centre of Excellence for Suez Canal, Al-Azhar

and Aswan teams.









completed

M1.2: Project management and management meetings conducted on time on both national

and international levels

M3.3: 1 National training session and 2 regional conducted with the participation of SDF

M4.1: Structured completely developed in-line with the stakeholders’ study previously

conducted


M8.4: Some dissemination conducted on the national and international level by SDF

M8.5: Presentations on the CCSAFS were presented in various events including the Cairo

Climate Talks


During the second half of the first year of the project from May-October, 2017, the design

phase was completed which aimed to situation analysis and strengthening multi-stakeholder

inputs to identify CCSAFS MSc competences and inventory of the needed students

competences. Two key surveys have been prepared and carried out: online survey for

professionals in CCSAFS related fields and fourth-year students at Faculty of Agriculture. The

surveys concentrated on potential courses for the MSc in CCSAFS, whether the courses

should be core or optional, competences and skills needed to be included in the MSc

programme, pedagogical approaches and its frequencies, knowledge on the information

relevant with CCSAFS, barriers to include CCSAFS in the academic programs.

Based on the qualitative and quantitative statistical analyses of the surveyed data, the first

draft report of the structure and curriculum titles of MSC in CCSAFS was suggested and

kindly e-mailed by the project coordinator to project’s partner institutions to give their

feedbacks. The team work of SCU met, discussed the structure of the program, number of

ECTS allocated for each courses, change titles of some courses, move courses from optional

to core and vice versa. Then feedback template from SCU team was e-mailed to Prof.

Makrakis.

1st National Training Workshop was organized at HUSD from 30th of July to 1st of August,

2017, and gathered the Egyptian partner institutions (SCU, Al-Azhar Univ, Aswan Univ., and

SEKEM foundation). The NTW included three working-group discussions and workshops on

suggested CCSAFS MSc programme structure and deciding on curriculum titles, appropriate

ECTS allocated for each course, selection of courses to be core or optional. Then, one person

from each of the three working-groups presented their feedbacks. Final report on selected

courses and program structure were e-mailed to Prof. Makrakis. In addition, two workshops

were organized to train staff members on using DeCoRe Plus methodology in curriculum

deconstruction. Another workshop to train staff on using MOOCS for delivering curriculum

content was provided by ICT master student. Also, training staff was performed on preparing

CCSAFS curriculum based on “The CCSAFS Course Modules Template”.

By the end of the 1st NTW, the final proposed structure of CCSAFS MSc program was almost

identified. Similar NTW was organized at Jerash University gathering Jordanian partners to

discuss the same topics and came to final structure of the MSc program, then unified report

on the final structure of the MSc in CCSAFS was e-mailed to all project partners to collect

final feedbacks and necessary suggestions. At the Managerial meeting in Cyprus from 27-29

September, partners came to the final MSc design and curriculum titles. In addition,

application procedures and required documents for validation and accreditation of the MSc

CCSAFS program according to Egyptian regulations were discussed. During the meeting,

course development team was identified through group-discussion, where Egyptian and

Jordanian Partners discussed and specified separately the responsibility and role of each

institution in courses development.

SCU team members met on 4th of October, 2017 to identify course development teams, where

each specified course was allocated to 2-3 staff members to start the process of curriculum

development. Table 1 demonstrates the allocation of courses for each Egyptian partner

institutions and the names of SCU team members participate in CCSAFS Course

development.

Three members from the SCU project team participated in the monitoring visit organized by

HUSD and chaired by Dr. Doaa Samy from National Erasmus Office in Cairo on 15th of

October, 2017. The SCU team provided joint PPT on the importance of CCSAFS project, why

the MSc in CCSAFS was identified and its value for MENA region and the proposed structure

of the programme. After presentation, Dr. Doaa Samy had questions on: how valuable are the

consortium members? how inter-institutional cooperation is managed?, how long the

consortium are being cooperating? what are the forms of previous cooperation between

members, if exists?, have been established?, what are the benefits for AZU (as a new member)

from being a consortium member?, how the validation and accreditation of the programme

will be managed?


❖ 1st NTW in Amman-Jordan

➢ The University of Jordan has participated in 1st National Training Workshop in Jordan,

was held at Geneva Hotel – Amman in August, 10-12, 2017.

➢ UJ was represented by Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri (Faculty of Agriculture), Eng. Fedaa Al-

Qasem and Eng. Nour Jbour (School of Engineering).

➢ Based on the Courses Selection Report sent by the project coordinator and the two key

surveys have been prepared and carried out among two key stakeholders: 1)

professional in the field of agriculture and 2) students in the field of agriculture; the

structure and design of the M.Sc. courses were discussed and finalized in a panel and

focus group discussion

➢ The following comments were sent by Prof. Jawad AL-Bakri regarding the courses

structure:

• One course on climate change in the first semester is enough, two maximum.

• Courses 1, 2 and 4 are nearly the same course and shall be merged in one

course to be delivered in the second semester after making sure that the student

has already got the concept of climate change.

• The sequence of courses shall be: climate change risks and vulnerability, then

mitigation and adaptation, then one full course on climate change and food

security (course #7).

• The first semester shall include courses on research methodology and statistical

analysis and experimental design. These are mandatory for accreditation from

the Ministry of Higher education. Course # 14 “Research Methods and

Advanced Statistics Analysis” shall be in the first semester.

• A separate course on food security and sustainable agriculture shall be

included in the first semester. This is course # 20. Also, course number 9 and

course number 5 can be merged in one course (sustainable agriculture and food

security). Economics of sustainable agriculture and food security shall be part

of the course.

• Suggest changing course #10 to agricultural water management. Water

resources can be part of the course.

• Course # 16: can we think about Post-harvest technology??

• Course 18: is it better to call it sustainable rangeland management…?

• Suggest moving course # 21 to the first semester.

• Risk analysis in food chain is a very specific course. May be we can include it

within a course on climate change vulnerability and risk assessment. There is a

standard procedure for vulnerability and risk assessment that can be applied to

food chain as well as to climate change. We are currently implementing it for

climate change, drought and food security. See the link

http://www.adaptationcommunity.net/?wpfb_dl=203

•

❖ 1st NTW Conclusion regarding the courses

Criteria of Courses:

a. The MSc courses should reflects the goal of the program and emphasize the main

subjects included (CC, SA, and FS).

b. Cover the competences, knowledge and skills regarding the CCSAFS subjects.

c. Meet the labor market needs.

d. Cover the local, regional and global perspectives.

e. Facilitate and use new technologies during courses applications.

http://www.adaptationcommunity.net/?wpfb_dl=203

f. Make an interaction between social economics, political and biophysical aspects for

solving problems.

g. Building up students’ leadership and organization through these courses.

h. Core courses should open horizons for graduate research skills, while optional

courses should give specific knowledge and technical skills for students.

The Students Background:

i. The priority goes to Agriculture Sciences students as the targeted population for this

program.

j. Secondly, Students specialize in Engineering (Civil, and Environmental)

k. At the third place, students holding a degree in Science (Biology and Geology)

l. At last, this program could accept students holding a degree in Economics and Social

Sciences.

Session 2: Developing the CCSAFS Course Syllabi and Modules

Deciding on the CCSAFS Core and Optional Courses.

Group Work- Notes:

The group discussed the proposed core and optional courses provided by the European team to

choose the most valuable courses to the program and decide how much credit hours and ECTs

needed for each course, the suggestions and comments of the groups were as follow:

Core courses:








- For the 6th core course that was proposed (Sustainable Disease Management): the

content of this course might be covered by the other suggested core courses through the

semesters.


# Optional Courses:

The group discussed the proposed optional courses and suggested the following:

- Exclude both Sustainable Grassland and Sustainable Livestock Courses and replace

them with a new course such as, Sustainable Livestock Management and Food Security.

- A course in Economy such as (Economy of Environment and Land Recourses) might

be added to the optional courses.

- Other optional courses that were proposed would be kept as it is in the program.

- Student should study total of 3 optional courses through the semesters.

- Each optional course is equivalent to 3 CH and 10 ECTs, which will make a total of 9

CH and 30 ECTs through the program study period.

- Research work will take 9 CH which is equivalent to 30 ECTs.

#Conclusions:

- The total of the Study period will be 33 CH which is equivalent to 120 ECTs.

- In the first and second semester: 2 core courses and one optional will be offered to

students.

- In the third semester: one core course and 2 optional will be offered to students.

- The last semester will be for the research work

The following courses were assigned to the University of Jordan during Cyprus Managerial

Meeting:

No Institution Core Courses Optional Courses

1.

University of

Jordan

Climate Change Adaptation and

Mitigation - Dr. Abbas Al-Omari Precision Farming (UNIPAD)

– Dr. Jawad Al-Bakri

GIS Applications in Climate

Change, Sustainable Agriculture and

Food Security - Dr. Jawad Al-Bakri

Variations (Indicate any differentiation regarding the above tasks and milestones)

All partners

No variations happened in the implementation during this time period.


Al Azhar University, Suez Canal University, Aswan University

The letter of money transfer was in Greek language and wasn't scanned very well and that's

cause problem in the bank because they don't know this money for who.


There are no problems or risks that have arisen recently.

JUST

• JUST could not attend the Workshop in Cyprus due to the short notice and due to the

timing of the workshop which was during the first week of the semester

• The Accreditation of the MSc program is very critical, as JU has to comply with the

Accreditation requirements in terms of the number of faculty members and their ranks.

Jerash University

JU should guarantee enough number of faculty members including the minimum number of

full professors required.

Mutah University

Buying equipment

Padova University

The main problem encountered during the project activities was to harmonize the different

points of view on CCSAFS themes from different expertises and regions. Namely, in some

occasions there were different opinions between agricultural and pedagogical academics on

some courses or syllabi. Also among experts from Jordan, Egypt and Europe there were

different views regarding the importance of the courses and their position in the master. These

problems have been tackled with open discussions and exchanges of ideas leading to an

agreement or they have been solved allowing each country to define little modifications on the

course structure.


There are some issues getting approvals from the Ministry of Social Solidarity, however this is

currently being solved and the documents are being submitted.


The procedures and processes of the establishment of blended learning laboratory for

CCSAFS would take extra time due to administrative procedures.


The University of Jordan staff could not attend the CCSAFS Managerial Meeting in Cyprus

due to other commitment in another Erasmus+ project which was at the same dates, and the

meeting date was scheduled few weeks before, so no one was able to attend.



It is expected that there may be some issues in finding participants and companies interested in

taking part in the master’s degree after it is developed as it is a very new and novel concept.

JUST

• Regarding the equipment; the tendering process at JUST and other JO public

universities may take more time according to the procedures at JUST.

• Conflict of the time of training with the exams at JUST which may result in not

attending the training

• The second national workshop needs budget if we want to host the stakeholders for

more than 4 hours; the absence of the budget for such activities may not encourage the

partners to organize it.

Jerash University

There may be a problem during accreditation.

Padova University

Future problem will be the actual definition of the syllabi in relation with expertise present in

the partner universities.

There is the risk during the accreditation process of jeopardizing the project outcomes.

It is suggested to define asap the courses that will be delivered online, since they have to be

designed and shaped in a different way than the face to face courses. This action will allow to

develop the online module with the proper methodology.


Delay in equipment purchasing


• Regarding the equipment; the tendering process at the University of Jordan might

requires to receive the first instalment of the grant in order to proceed the lunching of

the tender to obtain competitive offers, without the pre-financing no progress can be

done in the tendering procedure.

• It might be a challenging to guarantee the Stakeholder engagement and involvement in

the process of design, development and validation of course curricula in the field of

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security.

• The potential professors who will be trained in three national training workshops

(NTW) and the 1st RTW organised during the design phase of the CCSAFS curriculum

might leave or take a vacation from the University.

It might be difficult to guarantee the presence of the staff during all online communication and

trainings.

Al Azhar University, Aswan University, Mutah University, SEKEM Development

Foundation

No problem or risks reported


Al Azhar University

ALZU enter data for statistical of internal stockholder survey and analysis it. ALZU team

analysis for external stockholders survey

Al Azhar university began in preparation Centres of Excellence for CCSAFS WP5

All staff of Al Azhar Team CCSAFS members also collected survey of course syllabi for

undergraduate student of faculty of agriculture Al Azhar university related to CCSAFS


Dissemination of the CCSAFS project in countries outside of the consortium including

Germany, and the dissemination of CCSAFS in the delta region in Egypt such as Al-

Menoufia.

Aswan University, JUST, Jerash University, Mutah University, Padova University,

SEKEM Development Foundation, Suez Canal University The University of Jordan

Νο additional information of Notable Achievement provided.


Al Azhar University

Number of academic staff from the partner country’s Higher Education

Institutions (professors, assistants with teaching tasks, etc.)


Male

6

Female

0

Number of non-academic staff from the partner country’s Higher

Education Institutions (librarians, staff from the International Office, IT

specialists, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 1st biannual report

submission:

Male

0

Female

0

Number of staff from the partner country’s non Higher Education

Institutions (enterprises, NGOs, Chambers of Commerce, Government, local

administration, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 1st Biannual Report

Submission:

Male

0

Female

0

Number of students from the partner countries who have attended

programmes/courses developed in the framework of the project to the

date of the 1st Biannual Report Submission:

Male

0

Female

0

Aswan University


Education Institutions (professors, assistants with teaching tasks, etc.)


Male

0

Female

0



Male

0


submission:

Female

0


Education Institutions (enterprises, NGOs, Chambers of Commerce,

Government, local administration, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 1st

biannual report submission:

Male

0

Female

0


programmes/courses developed in the framework of the project to the date of the 1st biannual report submission:

Male

0



Institutions (professors, assistants with teaching tasks, etc.) trained/retrained

to the date of the 1st biannual report submission:

Male

3

Female

3




submission:

Male

0

Female

0



administration, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 1st biannual report

submission:

Male

2

Female

0




Male

0

Female

0

Jerash University



trained/retrained to the date of the 2nd biannual report submission:

Male 12

Female 5



specialists, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 2nd biannual report

submission:

Male 0

Female 0



administration, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 2nd biannual report

submission:

Male 0

Female 0



date of the 2nd biannual report submission:

Male 0

Female 0

JUST




Male 3

Female

0




submission:

Male 0

Female

0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




Male

0

Female

0

Mutah University




Male 8

Female 2




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

Padova University




Male 0

Female 0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




Male 1

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




submission:

Male 3

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0





Male 11

Female 4




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0





Male 3

Female 0




submission:

Male 2

Female 0




submission:

Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

Progress in terms of equipment purchase (Describe what you have done, providing

proofs with documents)

Al Azhar University

ALZU selected three different companies for equipment purchase to participate with

other Egyptian partners to purchase the project equipment as mentioned above

Note: Instead of upgrading old computers. It is much more advisable and beneficial to

by new computers. This will save money and provide us with better specifications.

Aswan University

Equipment purchase procedures to establish the CCSAFS Infrastructure has been done

mostly. Aswan University determined the equipment requirements and specifications. Equipment’ price quotations were obtained from different companies, and the most suitable offer was chosen technically and financially. The order of supply has been sent

to the company that has the most suitable offer. The equipment will be supplied during the coming period to finalize the procedures of examination, addition and financial

procedures (attached: Equipment specifications)

Jerash University

An announcement was made by the university tender committee in one of the local

newspapers for a tender for the equipment. Offers were submitted at the designed date.

The offers were opened by the University Tendering Committee and the tender was

awarded to the Specialized Technical Service Company (STS) in the decision number 16

for the year 2017 dated Oct, 8, 2017. There was an advanced payment for the awarded

company with the value of €18552.630 (at exchange rate of JOD 0.798 per €). The rest

will be paid upon receiving the equipment.

All documents will be submitted with the financial report.

JUST

A tender to purchase 30 PCs was submitted to the university. The specifications of the

PCs were determined by the Computer Center at JUST. It is expected to receive all

offers by the end of December 2017.

Mutah University

An announcement was made by JUST tender committee in one of the local newspapers

for a tender for the equipment. Offers were submitted at the designed date.

All documents will be submitted with the financial report.


As an NGO, SDF does not have an equipment budget.


A committee met to decide and write down items and equipment specifications to

develop blended learning laboratory and Center of Excellence for CCSAFS. The

committee members are: Dr. Manal Hefny, Dr. Nehal Lotfy, Mr. Basem Abdelghany.

The specifications were given to the employee at the section of purchases at Faculty of

Agriculture, SCU to prepare official offers. Then, offers were sent to the dealers to

provide us with suitable prices, currently we are waiting for offers (corresponding e-

mails are attached).


A list of needed equipment for the ICT laboratories was prepared and discussed on the

level of UJ staff with a considerable attention to the instructions and guidelines provided

by the general project coordinator. The technical specification for all items have been

approved by the Computer Centre at UJ

New items will be purchased due to the need of the need the computer lab will be

established at the Faculty of Agriculture, exclusively to be used for the CCSAFS

programme. A formal letter along with the document on VAT exempt from taxes was sent to the UJ

financial unit to reserve a specified budget for purchasing the equipment, and then the

tendering procedure will be launched to obtain competitive offers from at least three

suppliers and retain the one offering best value for money.

Institution Equipment proposed in Budget Equipment to be purchased

1. UoJ

Upgrade 50 Personal Computers (processor,

memory, disk capacity) (50 x 300,00 €),

purchase 15 new Personal Computers (15 x

750,00 €), 2 multisystem (laser printer and

scanner)(2 x 300,00 €), upgrading teleconference

system (HD camera, Stream Server) )(1 x

2000,00 €)

➢ Purchase (25-30) Pcs.

➢ HD Camera.

➢ Purchase (10) Computer

Monitors for Pcs already

existed

➢ Purchase (10) laptops for

the Centre of Excellences to

be used by the students.

➢ Purchase GIS software for

the course “GIS

Applications in Climate

Change, Sustainable

Agriculture and Food

Security”.

Dissemination Activities Completed (Besides description submit any evidence such

leaflets, brochures, web links, papers, minutes, agendas, pictures, etc.)

Al Azhar University

1- Participation in Egyptian to programme (channel of higher education) to introduce

Egyptian community with the project and its benefits, April, 2017)

2- Participation in a symposium on sustainable development, future prospects 2030,

September 2017, Alex.)

3- Al-Azhar University start to cooperate with national NGO for sustainable

development like Sharaf foundation for sustainable development, it's founded by

Former prime Minister Eng Essam Sharaf

4- Newsletter:

http://www.albawabhnews.com/2241920

http://shbabbek.com/show/122969

https://alwafd.org/-أخبار-وتقارير/1416773-جامعة-األزهر-تبدأ-في-مشروع-التنمية-المستدامة-بالتعاون

مع-االتحاد-األوروبي



The project was disseminated internally in the university to members of the different

faculties during research meetings and other events. Furthermore, the project has been

disseminated in online media including online news papers, in interviews, etc. Also, the


http://shbabbek.com/show/122969

https://alwafd.org/أخبار-وتقارير/1416773-جامعة-الأزهر-تبدأ-في-مشروع-التنمية-المستدامة-بالتعاون-مع-الاتحاد-الأوروبي

https://alwafd.org/أخبار-وتقارير/1416773-جامعة-الأزهر-تبدأ-في-مشروع-التنمية-المستدامة-بالتعاون-مع-الاتحاد-الأوروبي


project was disseminated in a prominent even in Germany as well as in the Cairo

Climate Talks in Al-Menoufia.

Jerash University

The dissemination of this programme was done at this stage through explaining this

programme to our students in the lectures and the announcement in the Agricultural

Engineers Association through their internet site during the announcement done for the

on line survey.

JUST

1. Students: the participation of students in completing the surveys was one of the

dissemination activities of the project.

2. The 1st National Training Workshop in Jordan which was held at Geneva Hotel –

Amman between August, 10-12, 2017, was disseminated via news press.

Mutah University

We use Facebook, workshops, private communication and staff telling the student at

civil engineering and agriculture school.


The project was disseminated internally in the NGO and with selected partners and

institutions that might be interested in participating. The project was also disseminated

on online media including online news sides, videos, etc.


• CCSAFS website: http://www.ccsafs.edc.uoc.gr/

• Web page is generated: https://www.facebook.com/MSc-programme-in-Climate-

change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food=Security-234767403660821/.

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/297850060413148/

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/agri.scu/

A seminar gathering some staff members, post and under-graduate students (third and

fourth year students) from Faculty of Agriculture were organized by Department of Plant

Protection on 30th of October, 2017 at 12.30 PM. Dr. Manal Hefny was invited to

provide general information on the project objective, activities and achieved deliverables

and draft of the programme structure. (PPT, invitation and attendance sheet are

attached).


• Dissemination of the project during the Stakeholder’s competences workshop.



https://www.facebook.com/MSc-programme-in-Climate-change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food=Security-234767403660821/

https://www.facebook.com/MSc-programme-in-Climate-change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food=Security-234767403660821/




Dissemination Activities- Forthcoming

Al Azhar University

1- A lecture will be given at faculty of Agric, Al-Azhar University, The

lecture will focus on the benefits of sustainable development on for

Egyptian society. Speaker: Professor Khalid Al-Khawas, third week of

November, 2017.

2- Participation in International conference on Basic Science, sustainable

development. A lecture presented by Professor Esam. (June, 2017).

3- Participation in International conference on Nanotechnology and

sustainable development. A lecture presented by professor Mamdouh

Omar. (10-11, October, 2017).

4- Al-Azhar University will sign protocol for training with DAAD and

German Embassy in Climate change and sustainable development

Reported by: Al-Azhar University team Date 31-

10-

2017

Aswan University

Newspapers http://www.youm7.com/story/2017/9/28/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%

D8%A9%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-

%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83-%D9%81%D9%89- %D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A9-

%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B5-%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-

%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A9/34

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04/664-2017-08-0609-09-47

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Participation in International Conference

Reported

by:

Dr. Omar Ramzy Da

te

30/10/2017

Jerash University

Newspaper article

Reported

by:

CCSAFS team in Jerash

University

Da

te

Oct, 30,

2017

JUST

Design and print brochures

Reported

by:

CCSAFS Team at JUST Da

te

Dec. 5, 2017

Mutah University

Brochures and leaflets

Reported

by:

CCSAFS contact person, Omer

Maaitah Mutah University

Da

te

2 November

, 2017

Padova University

Reported

by:

Battisti Andrea, Biasutti Michele,

Carletti Paolo, Fasolato Luca,

Varotto Serena

Da

te

24 october

2017

SEKEM DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Development

Foundation

Prepare brochures containing information about the

implementation of the project

Reported

by:

Mr. Mohammed Anwar Da

te

30/10/2017


• Prepare brochures gathering project information,

objectives, completed activities, achieved deliverables, programme

structure and curriculum titles.

Reported

by:

Manal Hefny Da

te

30/10/201

7


• Info day about the CCSAFS project will be held at The

University of Jordan with the participation of other Jo

partners during the 2nd NTW.

• Promotional Materials such as Brochures, folders and pens

will be produced by UJ to disseminate the project during

the planned events.

• News will be released informing about the NTWs and

RTWs, and the project implementation.

Reported

by:

UJ team. Da

te

11/11/201

7

Αdditional fields

Al Azhar University

Monitoring meeting:

National workshop

3rd BIANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT [November 2017 - April 2018]

CCSAFS Partners: Al Azhar University, Aswan University, Heliopolis University for

Sustainable Development (HUSD), Jerash University, Jordan University of Science and

Technology (JUST), Mutah University, SEKEM Development Foundation (SDF), Suez

Canal University, Τhe University of Jordan

Progress Against Milestones

M3.1: National training workshop

M3.2: 50 Trainee staff selected

M3.3: Training sessions national in each PC

M4.1: MSc. in CCSAFS programme structure and courses developed

M4.2: CCSAFS MSc. course syllabi and course modules

M5.1: 8 centres of Excellence for CCSAFS

M5.2: 8 Blended Learning Laboratories

Variations [Insert milestones missed/delayed and likely impact on the project

Justify variations occurred]

Current Problems & Risks [Insert problems and risks occurred during the period covered and any remedial actions

taken]

Obtaining constructive feedback from all stakeholders is not a straightforward initiative. It

is therefore crucial to render stakeholders’ involvement meaningful to them if they are to

be useful.

Capacity building among the academic staff and other stakeholders is an effective response

to concerns about competences needed for CLIMASP curriculum development. Concerns

regarding linguistic issues should be tackled. To this end, the colloquia will be self-

organised in Arabic in each partner university.

Political and economic stability in the target countries

Lack of interest in the target groups (adopt symbolic rewards such as certification,

champion awards, best practice awards)

Support from high administrative authorities in restructuring curriculum

Motivation and interest ftom teaching staff

Support and know-how transfer from EU partners

Support from internal and external stakeholders

Increased interest and support from institutional and ministerial quality assurance bodies

Misunderstanding due to different perceptions of ime (It can be tackled through a shared

understanding of managerial principles defined)

Lack of interest and time (It can be tackled through various incentives such as issueing

certificates for those trained, awards for good pracices, ertc.

Anticipated Problems & Risks [Insert any anticipated problems and risks that may hinder the project progress as well as

any suggestions to remedy them]

Additional Information of Notable Achievements [Provide additional information including the impact and value of the work achieved]

Details on Capacity Building Number of academic staff from the partner country’s Higher

Education Institutions (professors, assistants with teaching tasks, etc.)

trained/retrained to the date of the 3rd biannual report submission:

Male

Female


Education Institutions (librarians, staff from the International Office,

IT specialists, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the 3rd biannual

report submission:

Male

Female


Institutions (enterprises, NGOs, Chambers of Commerce,

Government, local administration, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of

the 3rd biannual report submission:

Male

Female


programmes/courses developed in the framework of the project to

the date of the 3rd biannual report submission:

Male

Female

Communication Strategy- Achievements

[Provide information on the dissemination of the project results]

Communication Strategy- Forthcoming

[Provide information on how you intend to communicate the results of the project in the

next period]

Developing a MSc Programme in Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and

Food Security (CCSAFS)

2nd National Training Workshop

25th – 28th January 2018

Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

Day 1 – 25th January, 2018


9:30-10:00 Welcome

Prof. Dr. Ahmad Ghalab (President of Aswan University)

Session 1: An Overview of the CCSAFS Project

10:00-10:30

CCSAFS Achievements and Current Challenges

Prof. Vassilios Makrakis (University of Crete)

10:30 – 11:00 The Road Map of the MSc in CCSAFS Validation

Prof. Manal Hefny (Suez Canal University)

11:00 – 11:30

An Overview of the Monitoring Visit

Prof. Omar Ramzy (Heliopolis University)


Session 2: Presentations of the Course Syllabi and Course Modules

12:00-13:00

Core and Optional Courses for Semester 1

Dr. Khaled Ibrahim (Suez Canal University-Core courses for Semester 1)

Dr. Wagdi Saber (Aswan University)

13:00-14:00


Dr. Samy AbdelAzem (SUC- Sustainable management of soil and water)

Dr. Manal Hefny (SCU- Research Methods and Advanced Statistical Analyses)

14:00-16:00 Lunch

16:00 – 17:00

Core and Optional Courses for Semester 3 & 4

Dr. El-Sayed Omran: GIS and Remote sensing applications in CC, SA and FS.

Dr. Atef Kamel: Sustainable and Ethical Livestock Management

17:00 – 18:00

Discussion

Day 2 – 26 January, 2018 Session 3: Organizing Peer Reviewing for the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

09:00 - 10:30 Workshop 1: Peer reviewing for Core and Optional Courses for Semester 1

Work in Groups led by Aswan University Team

10:30 – 11:00 Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Workshop 2: Peer reviewing for Core and Optional Courses for Semester 2

Work in Groups led by Al-Azhar University Team


13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 15:30 Teaching/Learning Methodologies for SDGs in CCSAFS Course Curricula

Prof. Michelle Biasutti etc. (University of Padova)

16:30-17:00 Workshop 3: Practicing teaching/learning methodologies for SDGs

Work in Groups led by University of Padova Team

Day 3 – 27th January, 2018 Session 4: Teaching and Learning Methodologies Suitable for the CCSAFS MSc Curriculum

09:00 - 9:30

Approaches for Infusing SDGs in the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

Dr. Aravella Zachariou (Frederick University)

9:30 – 11:00 Workshop 4: Practicing infusion of SDGs Led by Dr. Aravella Zachariou

(Frederick University)


11:30 - 12:00 Problem-based learning methodologies


12:00 - 12:30

Service learning and community-based Learning methodologies

Prof. Nelly Kostoulas (University of Crete)

12:30 - 14:00

Workshop 5: Practicing PBL & service-learning methodologies

Led by Prof. Nelly Kostoulas (University of Crete)

14:00-15:30 Lunch

15:30-16:00 Lessons learned from RUCAS & CLIMASP applicable to CCSAFS

Prof. Omar Ramzy and HUSD Team

16:00-17:30 Workshop 6: Infusing RUCAS/CLIMASP good practices into the CCSAFS

courses

Led by HUSD Team

Day 4 – 28th January, 2018 Session 5: Financial and Administrative Issues

09:00 – 11:00 Budget Spending Reporting by Each Partner: Checking Compliance


11:30-12:00 Preparing the CCSAFS Interim Report


12:00-13:30 Workshop 7: Using the CCSFS Online Community of Practice

Nikos Larios & Dr. Dimitris Gkotzos (University of Crete)

13:30-15:00 Lunch


The 2nd National Training Workshop that took place in Jordan during 21-24 February 2018 gave the

opportunity to project partners of the CCSAFS to present the Course Syllabi and Course Modules Core and

Optional Courses for all Semesters. Reflect on the peer reviewing feedback received. Experience

teaching/learning methodologies for SDGs in CCSAFS course curricula and practicing teaching/learning

methodologies for SDGs as well as explore approaches for infusing SDGs in the CCSAFS Course

Curriculum. In addition to that, participants practiced the infusion of SDGs, problem-based learning

methodologies and community-based learning methodologies. Discussions on budget spending and

checking compliance with project rules.

Analytical report of CCSASF meeting workshops Egypt 25-27 January 2018

List of participant:

1. Luca Fasolato ([email protected])

2. Khale Abdelhamid

3. Manal Hefny ([email protected])

4. Nehal Lotfy Khalil ([email protected])

5. Samy Abd El-Malik Mohamed Abd El-Azeem

6. Rafik Khalil

7. Paolo Carletti (workshop 3 – [email protected])

8. Adel Abdel Faheem

9. Elsayed Omran

10. Marwa Samir

Workshop 1-2 : Peer reviewing for a Core and Optional Courses for Semester 1

The team decided to examine the Core course “Climate Change Adaptation and mitigation”

Developed by Dr Khaled Abdelhamid, Dr Mohamed Wasfy and Dr Marwa Samir. The workshop

was about evaluating the extent of coverage the following:

1- The six 21st ESD learning pillars (Learning to know, Learning to be, Learning to live together, Learning to do; Learning to give and share; Learning to transform oneself and society).

2- The four main pillar of Sustainable Development (Economy; Society; Environment; Culture).

3- The 10 Cs (constructing knowledge, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, connectivity, critical consciousness, critical reflection, cross culture competence, co-responsibility).

The team agreed on adopting a pragmatic approach, focusing on each module according to the

following scheme: Module Pillar of SD Pillar of education Skills

Economy; Society; Environment; Culture

Learning to know, Learning to be, Learning to live together, Learning to do; Learning to give and share; Learning to transform oneself and society

4CS – Communication; collaboration, Critical Thinking, creativity. 6CS + Connectivity; critical consciousness; critical reflection +Constructing, Cross/intercultural; Co-responsibility

Module 1: title: impact Environment Learning to know, Constructing

of climate change on agriculture..

Economy

Learning to be Learning to do

Creativity Collaboration Communication

According to the revision, the group decided to change some parts of learning objectives, moreover we stressed the impact of active learning. As the original description of the activity was that the instructor would ask the students to develop a presentation giving them one topic, the group proposed using active learning approach where students can propose the titles of the presentation within the scope of the first module. During the course presentation lecture, in order to engage students, we proposed to introduce a video (few minutes) of the 6-education pillar declined according to the SD as blended teaching activity.

Module 2: Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in agriculture

Environment Economy Society

Learning to transform oneself and society Learning to know, Learning to be, Learning to do;

critical consciousness; Communication; collaboration

The revision of this module highlighted the possibility to introduce a Culture pillar of SD. We decided to include a preliminary activity dedicated to the local habits. Students will be requested to analyze different examples of the common local practices involved in “adaptation” or “mitigation” of climate changes. Moreover, this new activity is supposed to improve the student’s empathy and critical consciousness (cross/intercultural skills).

Module 3: Production of crops under protected conditions

Environment Economy Society

Learning to know, Learning to be, Learning to do; Learning to live together,

collaboration, creativity

This module was considered complete; moreover, the common practices of active learning were already included in practices and training.

The analysis was performed only on the first three modules of the course due to time restrictions.

Workshop 3: Practicing teaching/learning methodologies for SDGs

The group analyzed the activities of the “Climate change adaptation and mitigation” course to

identify opportunities to introduce new active learning methods. In module 1, “Impact of climate

change on Agriculture” the students will be asked to design a PowerPoint presentation on the

impact of climate change on agriculture.

The activity was originally designed to be the teacher to provide the students the presentation

topics.

After discussion, the group proposed that: Students will be divided in groups that will work on

free brainstorming to choose the topic the presentation will focus on.

After the brainstorming, each group will present the chosen topic to the other groups and the

teacher to revise and comment on the selected topic.

One of the advantages of the approach is that the students will be actively driving the discussion

and the presentation on important topics also based on the previous knowledge.

Another advantage of this brainstorming can be the first step for problem based learning and

critical approach also providing the student the sensation that they actively participate in

determining their learning experience.

One of the disadvantages this approach will need more time to perform the topic selection; some

of the topic could be superficially chosen; the chosen topic can be unbalanced, not covering the

full spectrum of the contents addressed in the course.

Workshop 4: practicing infusion of SDGs

As reported before, the team decided to evaluate the infusion of SDGs inside the course of

“Climate Change Adaptation and mitigation”. In general, we identified four main goals: Goal 2, 6,

8, 12 and 13. In particular, the course covered: End hunger, achieve food security and improve

nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture (sub goals 2.3; 2.4); ensure availability and

sustainable management of water and sanitation for all (sub goals 6.4); Ensure sustainable

consumption and production patterns (sub goal 12.7); take urgent action to combat climate

change and its impact. Particularly, this last objective completely fit inside the sub-objective 13.3

(improve education). The group did not evidence lack or problematics about the resources for

infusing SDGs, moreover the learning outcomes were clear and complete. However, despite the

technical competencies were well reported, some gaps are highlighted about other skills like

solidarity, trans-cultural understanding and gender inclusion. In particular, we evidenced that the

social empathy should be stressed more in the course in order comprehend the theme of inequality.

Moreover, the gender issues were raised as an important topic to be included, although are not

easily connected with the themes of this course.

Add values for SDGs infusion: topics could be properly connected with the global priorities in

order to enlarge the perception of student as global citizen.

Suggestions: The team suggested developing a scheme to be used to overview all the courses

involved in the CCSAFS in order to highlight possible lack on SDGs infusion. We propose

Aravella could prepare this matrix in an appropriate format for the SDGs infusion in the entire

master course.

Workshop 5: practicing infusion of service –learning; problem-based learning methodologies

First activity:

Brainstorming on service-learning activity:

The group decided to re-analyze the activity of the Module 3 of the course “Climate Change

Adaptation and mitigation”. Students can learn how to do a graft by an expert, then they go out in

the community to explain to other people the best practices according to the environmental

requirements (salinity inside the soil, aridity etc.). This example is strongly related to adaptation

and mitigation; moreover, transferring this skill to the local small farmers (recipient) can promote

the use of new alternative methods.

Responses to some crucial issues consideration in order to structuring the CCSAFS

course

1) What is more operational and convenient a Master with 120 or 90 ECTS?

The team believes that 120 ECTS is suitable for constructing the program. As, we

have already running master program “Sustainable Plant Protection”, the program

was developed under TEMPUS program of the European Union, consists of 120

ECTS (90 ECTS for courses and 30 ECTS for Theses), 30 ECTS for each semester.

So, we believe that following the same regulations is suitable.

2) Decision of the number of ECTS for each course (5 ECTS for all the courses

or variation of ECTS).

Fixing the number of ECTS for each course could be, taking into account that

distribution of course structure differed depending on the importance of the

course. For example, if the courses has fixed number of 5 ECTS, each ECTS =

25 working load, so the 125 working hours can be distributed differently among

course activities (lectures, field work, lab. work, library, seminars, practical

work, homework, case study).

Another option is to diversify the number of ECTS among courses.

3) The course will be taught by a group of academic staff or one.

To achieve the interdisciplinary approach, each course should be taught by two

or three staff members. As the main objective of the master program should

demonstrate the integration among disciplines, it is a must that courses must be

developed and taught be more than one colleague.

4) What is supposed to be the number of the students that will attend the master

course?

10-15 at the beginning

5) From which fields and departments students can be applied from the master

course.

The team believes that students graduated from Faculties of Agriculture,

Sciences and Veterinary Medicine have the priority to register in this program.

They have preliminary information and skills that enables them to join the

program.

6) Which others can be prospective master students in the course CCSAFS?

Employees from Agricultural Research Centers, Ministry of Agriculture,

Ministry of Irrigation, Ministry of State for the Environment, Crisis

management units, GIS and remote sensing, Agricultural extension, seed

production companies, teachers from secondary schools, NGO’s, Agricultural

companies.

7) What is expected from core and optional courses?

Core courses are selected to cover: basic knowledge and skills on CC, SA and

FS and the build the interrelations among them, serve the interdisciplinary

concept, required to achieve the program objectives, enable them to move on

to the next level in their education and /or carriers, be introductory courses to

achieve the main issues of the program, give overview of the program.

Optional courses give students in depth knowledge and skills to boost their

professional careers, more specialized.

8) Yes some courses could be merged, suggested and renamed.

9-10)

Suggested course titles:

Semester I, Core courses

- Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, Nutrition and Health

-Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

- Climate Change, Poverty and local Food Security

-Ethics and justice in Agricultural Production

Optional -Agro-ecosystem Services and Sustainability of Farming Practices

- Agri-Food Value Chains

- Sustainability and Agricultural Legislations

- Food Processing, Preservation

Semester II, Core -Sustainable Management of Soil and Water

-Economics of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

-Research methods and advanced statistical analyses

-Renewable energy, technologies, sources, and applications

Optional

-GIS for agro-biodiversity studies

-Consumer behavior, food security and marketing

-Sustainable grassland systems and food security

-Small scale farming, indigenous knowledge and food security

Semester III, Core

-Integrated Pest management, sustainable agriculture and food security

-Risk analysis in food chain security

-food quality control and community nutrition

-Sustainable and ethical livestock management

Optional

-Genetics and genomics in sustainable agriculture

-Social Entrepreneurship in the organic food industry

- Sustainable livestock, fisheries and food security

-Post-harvest supply chain management

Note: The suggestion of Paolo and Nehal to choose only 3 core courses each with 10

ECTS in the first semester without providing courses would ease the process of

courses development and teaching efforts, but the courses should achieve the

interdisciplinary objective.

Therefore, the courses could be:

-Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, Nutrition and Health

-Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

- Climate Change, Poverty and local Food Security

-Ethics and justice in agricultural production

Local Jordanian Partners Meeting


Amman- Jordan.

November 2nd, 2017

Agenda

11:00-11:10 1. Welcoming

11:10-11:30 2. Courses Selection

11:30-11:40 3. 2nd Bi-annual Progress Report

11:40-11:50 Coffee break

11:50-12:00 4. Equipment Purchase

12:00-12:15 5. CCSAFS 1st National Training Workshop in

Jordan

12:15 6. Closing

Executive Summary

Kickoff meetings included a general overview to the project, the consortium partners,

the tasks of each partner, the administration, the deliverables of the project and the

contribution expected by each partner, the procedures for monitoring and quality

assurance of the project. .

Project Overview: Goals, Objectives, Roles and Responsibilities

Questions & Answers

Project management, financial guidelines and administration

Questions & Answers

Review of progress towards Stakeholders survey for mapping CCSAFS competences

Discussion on how to apply survey results on curriculum revision

Organisation of training workshops in partner countries and E.U. member countries

Monitoring and Quality Assurance Group of Project Activities

1.0 Welcome and Project Overview

The project coordinator welcomed participants followed up by high-level executives of

the coordinating organisation. The Project Coordinator introduced the project to give

the participants a sense of the relative level of importance of the effort expected from

all partners.

The overview provided included details about the contract, statement of work in relation

to deliverables. Particular attention was given to this issue and a followed-up discussion

clarified many issues.

2.0 Introductions: CCSAFS Project Objectives, Methodologies and Managerial Issues,

Roles and Responsibilities


Each partner introduced and described its team members and their roles as well as the

procedures to be taken in order to enhance an opportunity for team-building activities.

It was emphasised that team members should be committed and have clear roles with

respect to their assignments. Risks potentially involved in building teams was also

discussed and how to cope with possible constraints.

3.0 Managing the CCSAFS budget: Nikos Larios (University of Crete), CCSAFS Finance Administration

Participants discussed the aims and objectives of the project and how to accomplish

them in line with the management of the CCSAFS budget. This was proved to be very

instrumental and turned participants aware of their responsibilities, shares and tasks. It

also served as a source for further discussion of the project organization’s approach.

2) See divergences and common syllabi between Egyptians and Jordanians. Try to have the main

corpus to be the same one. SHALL WE ASK (Michele)? Yes - we contact the local coordinator in

Jordan. MICHELE will send a mail to our colleagues in Italy to push them to revise the syllabi

3) Manal should send a list of not responsive developers to Prof Makrakis who will cope with

them highlighting that the new version will be electronically checked for modifications.

4) Egypt - Come Michele, Paolo and Luca.

Jordan - Come Michele and Luca.

5) Prof. Makrakis will write that by JUNE all syllabi in Egypt will be ready with modifications

done. Syllabi must be sent to external revision by end of May, first semester as a priority.

6) Same procedure will be applied for Jordan 1 month later.

7) technical report Problem with Jordan

finance report

8) MEETING IN PADOVA:

11 Arrival

12 Meeting held in Padova - WELCOME Invite international office for the meeting

Key points:

• Asses what has been done in terms of internal and external peer reviewing

• Reflection from intermediate assessment EU

• Compatibility between course modules of Jordan and Egypt

• Jordan validation results, Prepare the implementation for 1st semester Botanic garden visit (last entrance 18:15)?

13 Agripolis

Morning Visit the facilities, departments and meeting Directors. 11:30 prayer

Key points:

• Discuss the further cooperation for the students and staff mobility between CCSAFS and Sustainable Development (Erasmus +) and see the courses that could be attended or thesis periods.

• Discuss possible research projects which could be supported here. 14 Administrative issues meeting (Field trip Venice)

15 Farewell

Accommodation in Giotto hotel, Ask to the partners to book directly and may have a

discount code. Give a deadline for booking the accommodation. Accommodation only

provides breakfast.

9) Organize plan for data collection and publication

10) Future Joint pHD in CCSAFS.

Developing a MSc Programme in Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and

Food Security (CCSAFS)

2nd National Training Workshop

21 – 24 February 2018

JORDAN

Day 1 – 21 February, 2018

12:30-15:30 Workshop Preparation and Organisation

CCSAFS Managerial Meeting

16:00-16:30

CCSAFS Managerial Agenda for Discussion


16:30 – 17:00 Reporting progress on CCSAFS financial issues in Jordan

Prof. Ahmed Salaymeh (University of Jordan)

17:00 – 17:30

Reporting progress on administrative issues of the MSc CCSAFS in Jordan

Prof. Fahmi Al-Rube (Jordan University of Science & Technology)

17:30-18:00 General Discussion

Day 2 – 22 February, 2018 9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-10:00

Welcome


10:00-10:30

CCSAFS Achievements and Current Challenges


10:30 – 11:00 The Road Map of the MSc in CCSAFS Validation

Prof. Ibrahim Tahat (Jerash University)

11:00 – 11:30

An Overview of the Monitoring Visit in Jordan

Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh (University of Jordan)


Session 2: Presentations of the Course Syllabi and Course Modules

12:00-13:00


Dr. Ibrahim Al-/tahat (Jerash University-Core courses for Semester 1)

(Jerash University- Opional courses for Semster 1)

13:00-14:00


JUST University.

Dr. Saeb Khrisat and Dr. Nisar Samarah

14:00-16:00 Lunch

16:00 – 17:00

Core and Optional Courses for Semester 3 & 4

UJ.

Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri & Prof. Abbas Al-Omari

17:00 – 18:00

Discussion

Day 3 – 23 February, 2018 Session 4: Teaching and Learning Methodologies Suitable for the CCSAFS MSc Curriculum

09:00 - 9:30 Approaches for Infusing SDGs in the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

Dr. Aravella Zachariou (Frederick University)

9:30 – 11:00 Workshop 4: Practicing infusion of SDGs Led by Dr. Aravella Zachariou

(Frederick University)


11:30 - 12:00 Teaching/Learning Methodologies for SDGs in CCSAFS Course Curricula

Prof. Michelle Biasutti etc. (University of Padova)

12:00 - 12:30

Workshop 3: Practicing teaching/learning methodologies for SDGs

Work in Groups led by University of Padova Team

12:30 - 14:00

Problem-based learning methodologies


14:00-15:30 Lunch

15:30-16:00 Service learning and community-based Learning methodologies


16:00-17:30 Workshop 5: Practicing PBL & Service-learning methodologies

Led by Prof. Nelly Kostoulas (University of Crete)

Day 4 – 24 February, 2018 Session 6: Organizing Peer Reviewing for the CCSAFS Course Curriculum

09:00 - 10:30 Preparing the CCSAFS Interim Report



11:00- 12:00 Workshop Assessment


13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 17:00 Consultations

Report on the Structure and Course Curriculum of the MSc in CCSAFS

Prepared by Vassilis Makrakis and Nelly Kostoulas-Makrakis

Based on the results of the two NTW in Egypt and Jordan, the following table summarizes

the structure and course curriculum of the MSc CCSAFS. Particular emphasis was given to

the validation and accreditation rules in both countries as well as to give the opportunity to

students for earning a double degree (one from the University of Padova in Sustainable

Agriculture).

Some clarifications

Six core courses, two in each of the three semesters, weighted to 10 ECTS and one option

makes 30 ECTS in each semester.

Assigning 10 ECTS in each course gives more depth in the subjects and at the same time

complies with the validation and accreditation rules related to the number of CH and the

minimum and maximum number of core and optional courses.

The CH refer only to teaching hours while the ECTS cover in addition the time needed for

reading and preparing assignments and exams.

The optional courses provide some variation due to some different needs in Egypt and

Jordan. For example, students in Egypt can choose the course “Sustainable Fisheries and

Food Security”, while students in Jordan can choose the course “Unsaturated Soil in Arid

and Semi-arid Region” (A new course suggested by Mutah University).

Regarding the opportunity for earning a double degree, the University of Padova team

should provide us more information considering the core and optional courses allocation.

In parenthesis, there are the equivalent courses offered in the MSc course on Sustainable

Agriculture, University of Padova

.

MSc CCSAFS Program Course Organization and Structure

SEM CORE COURSES CH ECTS OPTIONAL COURSES

(CHOOSE ONE)

CH ECTS

1

Climate Change, Sustainable

Agriculture and Food Security

(Sustainable Agriculture-UNIPAD)

3 10 Sustainability Justice and Food

Security

3 10

Small Scale Farming. Indigenous

Knowledge and Local Food

Supply

3 10

Social Entrepreneurship in the

Organic Food Industry

(UNIPAD)

3 10

Climate Change Adaptation and

Mitigation

3 10 To be chosen one

2

Sustainable Management of Soil and

Water (Water Resources

Management-UNIPAD)

3 10 Risk Analysis in the Food Chain 3 10

Precision Farming (UNIPAD) 3 10

Consumer Behaviour, Food

Security and Marketing 3 10

Research Methods and Advanced

Statistics Analysis (Advanced

statistics-UNIPAD)


3

Economics of Climate Change,

Sustainable Agriculture and Food

Security (Agrifood Economics and

Policy-UNIPAD)

3 10 Sustainable and Ethical Livestock

Management (Sustainable

livestock systems-UNIPAD)

3 10

Sustainable Fisheries and Food

Security 3 10

Unsaturated Soil in Arid and

Semi-arid Region

3 10

GIS Applications in Climate Change,

Sustainable Agriculture and Food

Security


Total 18 60 Three optional courses 9 30

4 Thesis 9 30 Total for the MSc CCSAFS 36 120

We (project’s team at SCU) have discussed the Course Selection Report kindly provided by Prof.

Makrakis. Accordingly, the following distribution of the courses on the three semesters was

suggested:

Semester 1

Core courses

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, Nutrition and Health

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Local Food Security

• Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

• Economics of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Social dimensions of climate

change must be also considered)

• Research Methods and Advanced Statistical Analyses

Optional courses

• Climate Change, Poverty and Food Security

• “Sustainable Home-grown Feed, Climate Change and Food Security” can be substituted with

“Agro-ecosystem Services and Sustainability of Farming Practices”

• Agri-Food Value Chains

• Sustainability and Agricultural Legislations

Semester 2

Core courses

• “Irrigation Management and Water Resources” : Deleted and cab be integrated in the course:

• “Sustainable Management of Soil and Water”

• Food Processing, Preservation and quality controls (modified)

• Ethics in Agricultural Production

• Renewable Energy: Sources, Technology & Applications (NEW)

Can be merged in

one course

Optional courses

• GIS for Agro-(Environmental) biodiversity Studies (modified)

• Small Scale Farming. Indigenous Knowledge and Local Food Supply

• Consumer Behaviour, Food Security and Marketing

• Sustainable Grassland Systems and Food Security

Semester 3

Core courses

• Integrated pest management, sustainable agriculture and food security

• Risk analysis in food chain security

• Sustainable livestock, fisheries and food security

• Genetics and Genomics in sustainable agriculture

Optional courses

• Sustainable and Ethical Livestock management

• Sustainable waste management (New)

• Social Entrepreneurship in the organic food industry

• Sustainability and soil less culture (New)

Attendance

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A training needs assessment template has been developed to identify 1) the critical shortages of

expertise that the CCSAFS needs should be addressed, 2) the places of working after graduating

from the CCSAFS MSc programme, 3) the propspective job titles and 4) professional roles to be

performed. This template was delivered to 40 participants in the 1st regional training workshop to

elicit their views. After eliciting their views, discussion was followed-up. Through this discussion we have derived useful information that in combination with the respective inputs received from

70 stakeholders participating in the colloquia were used for framing the CCSAFS courses. In this

way we assured that these courses reflect real training and societal needs. Particular attention was

given to the existing gaps of CCSAFS skills that are perceived necessary in developing the

CCSAFS course modules.

The 2nd National Training Workshop in Egypt has been hosted by Aswan University from 25th to

28th January 2018 with the participation of 37 staff. The corresponding NTW in Jordan was

hosted by JUST from 21st to 24th February, 2018 with 28 participants. The objectives of the 2nd

NTWs in both partner countries were to discuss the peer-reviewed courses, the

validation/accreditation procedures of the MSc in CCSAFS and provide training on teaching

methodologies and the infusion of SDGs in course modulres. To this end, the agendas included

sessions such as the Road Map of the MSc in CCSAFS validation, an overview of the results of

the monitoring visits, presentations of the course syllabi and course modules for all semesters and

the peer-reviewed feedback. There were also sessions on teaching/learning methodologies for

SDGs in CCSAFS course curricula in line with problem-based learning methodologies as well as

practicing on service learning and community-based learning methodologies. Finally, there was a

session on budget spending, reporting and compliance.

This activity concerns the processes, practices and outcomes of the supplementary professional

development support provided to the CCSAFS trainee staff after the three face-to-face National

Training Workshops (June and July 2018) based on an online Community of Practice and

Learning Management System that has been already developed. So far, we have developed the

blended learning environment that is backed-up by a Learning Management System and OcP

accessible at the first page of the Website.

The MSc. in CCSAFS program consists of six compulsory courses of 10 ECTS each and nine

optional or electives of 10 ECTS each. Students should choose three courses out of the nine

optional. In total the course work amounts 90 ECTS during the three semesters and 30 ECTS for

the thesis during the 4th semester. In total the MSc. consists of 120 ECTS.

All the courses are inter/multidiscipinary combining aspects from the field of Climate Change,

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security.

During the structuring of the CCSAFS MSc course programme we have thoroughly discussed the

possibility to find out connection with the MSc in Sustainable Development at our partner

University of Padova. So, in the above table we note the courses at Padova University which are

equivalent to the CCSAFS program. We envision that students from both programs can attend

these courses through bilateral Erasmus plus student mobility agreements. This will strengthen the

internationalisation of both programs and their quality. In a recent meeting at Padova University,

we further discussed this issue as well as cooperation in the research topics for the

a design/development team has been assigned who was responsible for developing the course

syllabus and the course modules. Each design team followed-up the guidelines and templates

included in the CCSAFS Toolkit. The syllabus includes a short introduction to CCSAFS course,

its objectives, learning outcomes, teaching methods, units, assignments etc. The course modules

give an extended presentation of the syllabus structured in modules. Each course consists of 5-7

modules and in each module there is a title, key concepts, an overview, aims, learning outcomes,

units, readings and activities. All the syllabi and course modules have gone through internal peer-

reviewing

The validation and approval of the CCSAFS course curriculum is being followed up by Suez

Canal University in Egypt and Jerash University in Jordan, the hubs for implementing the MSc in

CCSAFS.

The validation has been implemented at two levels : a) at the institutional level and b) at the

national level. At the internal level, all syllabi and course modules have been peer-reviewed and

assessed by the Suez Canal University and Jerash University Accreditation Committees. The

MSc. in CCSAFS has been already validated and approved at the first level. This is a precondition

to proceed in the validation at the national level, which involves the Ministry of Higher Education

and its Higher Education Commission for Validation and Accreditation of academic programmes.

Jerash University has already submitted the application for the validation at the Jordanian Higher

Education Commission for Validation and Accreditation. Suez Canal University is at the final

stage of preparing the application. During the process of preparing the applications, key CCSAFS

staff members from both partner countries havebeen in contact with members of the national

validation and accreditation committees, exchanging ideas and information about the file of the

application. In particular, the Jerash University has been in contact with members of the Jordanian

Higher Education Commission which is also the CCSAFS associated partner. This has been very

critical in preparing the applications

A Centre of Excellence (CoE) focussing on CCSAFS has been established in each partner

institution. This process has been facilitated by a template which has been thoroughly discussed

and approved by partners in both countries. Accordingly, each partner university adjusts its own

policy on the basis of the CCSAFS CoE model developed that includes: vision, mission and core

value statements, which represent the key priorities in the CoE which must reach in alignment

with the mission, vision and core values. Strategic goals are general statements about what the

CoE needs to accomplish to meet its mission, vision and core values. Specific action plans or

activities formulated to implement each strategic goal. These are the specific activities or

objectives addressing each strategic goal, along with verifiable indicators and SDGs. There are

also key outcomes in a time perspective and placement of the strategic goals with their

corresponding specific activities and indicators in a time perspective.

As pointed in the previous activity, the CCSAFS Centers of Excellence in each partner university

will integrate the blended learming laboratories. Based on needs analysis we have identified which

equipment is needed in each partner university, taking into consideration a) available equipment

and their conditions, b) necessary upgrade, c) description of the available space for the needed

equipment, d) number of expected users per equipment per class, etc.

Up to now, all partner universities, except three Jordanian partners (University of Jordan, Mutah

University and JUST) have taken measures and purchased most of the equipment. The three

Jordanian universities have already completed the tendering process, ordered the equipment and it

is in the process of installment.

It is expected that besides the MSc students in CCSAFS (expected to 50 yearly), more than 200

graduate students in each partner university (1600 in total yearly) will make use of the equipment,

especially during the blended learning classes

The Blended Learning Environment & the LMS Platform developed is hosted by the University of

Crete and is accessible by all partner universities through the Website. At the first page of the

Website there is a tab that give access to the blended learning classess. It is a restricted area to

students and teaching staff. The full operation with the course modules installed in each blended

learning class will start at the pilot phase of the CCSAFS MSc programme (Winter semester,

2018-19).

By the end of the project, this will be transferred to Suez Canal University and Jerash University

that will function as the hubs for CCSAFS MSc program. During the period of the project,

especially after the 3rd National Training Workshop will be used to support the professional

development of the CCSAFS teaching staff.

It is also planned to develop 2-3 CCSAFS courses as MOOCs, which will be delivered through the

LMS platform. So far, we have developed the concept for the MOOCs courses and they are going

to be reviewed during the 3rd National Training Workshops in June and July, 2018.

An internal quality assurance plan has been developed that includes the roles for monitoring and

quality assurance assigned to key CCSAFS decision-making bodies, such as the Project

Coordinator and the WP leaders, the risk management and handling, the means for collecting data

related to monitoring and quality assurance and the CCSAFS project activities for the internal

peer-reviewing process for assuring the quality of the CCSAFS syllabi and course modules. So far,

peer reviewing focused on course structure, course titles, course syllabi and course modules. An

internal peer reviewing discussion list was prepared with the assigned reviewers from each

partner. The distribution of peer reviewing tasks was discussed in each partner contry institutions.

Parts of the monitoring and quality assurance are: a) the finalization of the stakeholders’ survey

instrument to identify needs, competences and assess the importance of course concepts and

potential courses; b) the internal peer reviewing of course syllabi and course modules, c) the

formative assessment to be carried out during the piloting and implementation process of the

CCSAFS course curriculum.

The results of the stakeholders involvement through the surveys were catalytic in the quality of the

CCSAFS course curriculum in terms of relevance to the context of the partner countries. All the

core and optional courses equivalent to 120 ECTS have been internally reviewed and this process

will also continue during the piloting period.

So far, we have carried out the reecruitment of the external evaluators and the external quality

assurance plan, including all necesssary templates, rubrics and methodologies. External

monitoring process, involving external experts will be applied to the most important project

deliverables. The recruitment of two external evaluators was based on certain criteria such as

knowledge of the Arabic language, experiences on CCSAFS, knowledge of the Egyptian and

Jordanian context, etc. contexill be suggested by the PC and the respective WP leaders. Before

going to the external evaluation, the MSc CCSAFS course syllabi and course modules will be

internally revised on the basis of the peer-reviewing feedback. The work of external evaluators

will be on focus, especially during the pilot phase

4th CCSAFS BIANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT [April 2018 - September 2018]

NAME OF PARTNERS: Al Azhar University, Aswan University, Heliopolis University for


Technology (JUST), Mutah University, Padova University, SEKEM Development

Foundation (SDF), Suez Canal University, Τhe University of Jordan

Al-Azhar University

M1.3 Biannual progress reports

The managerial members were met and participated in meeting during 3rd National

workshop, Suez Canal University and 4th CCSAFS Managerial meeting, Paduva

University. 3rd biannual report was submitted to Project coordinator by 27th July 2018. And

4th Biannual report will be submitted by 20th October, 2018. During the managerial

meeting we agreed to start implementation for ICT on all partner University by October),

2018 (letter from AlAzhar University vice-head was sealed and signed.

According to communication issue, Forthcoming communication will be occur through online community of practice and should be validated from all partners. Also the team

discussed the roadmap for further coming activities, as well as project’s achievements and actual and potential obstacles. (Meeting minutes 1, 2 attachment)

M3.4: Continuous online capacity building and support AZHU team participated in 3rd NTW in Suez Canal University and actively shared experience for coming workshops mentioned below : 1- Assessing the Integration of the ECTS Workload in the CCSAFS Course Modules. 2-ssessing the Integration of Community-based learning activities in the CCSAFS Course

Curriculum.

3-Assessing the Integration of the SDGs in the CCSAFS Course Modules

4-Assessing the Integration of the 10Cs in the CCSAFS MSc Curriculum

5-Concept and Methodologies for the CCSAFS MOOCs and Blended Learning

AZHU members also attended workshops during Paduva University meeting from 12 –

14th July, 2018 on; 1- CCSAFS Blended Learning Environment 2- syllabus external revision procedures 3- Mobility between PU and Padova university staff members 4- Possibility for Shared Research Projects between CCSAFS consortium. (Meeting minutes 1, 2 attachment) AZHU team is taking part in group Work for MOOC Courses and Blended Learning, this group directed by Omar Eldahan will finalize all MOOC related activities by December, 2018. Once this task will be finished all reports and deliverable will be uploaded to CCSAFS website.

M4.3. Validation and accreditation of CCSAFS programme

AZHU team developed 2 courses Risk Analysis in the Food Chain & Sustainable Fisheries and Food security. 2 courses will be reconstructed using updated modules version and will be uploaded to LMS soon ( Attachment 3,4) M5.3: CCSAFS blended learning & LMS platform

AZHU CoE already established and will be open officially during October, 2018. All equipment were installed in ICT lab. ( Attachment 5)

M7.2. Reports on monitoring and external quality assurance.

Interim report was submitted including all deliverables, reports from all PU. Reports mainly

discussed about preparation phase for CCSAFS project.

In addition the first financial report for AZHU was submitted on April, 2018. AZHU reports

was approved and accepted for receiving 2nd financial instalment. Second technical and financial

report from AZHU were submitted to CCSAFS technical and financial review.

The reflection on EACEA project implementation report was discussed during Padova meeting

and comments and recommendation were discussed.

M8.5: Presentations (e.g. posters and information desks) in various exhibitions AZHU team participated and actively organized in conference “Dignity and Innovation – Strategies for

sustainable future, with special focus on Agriculture and Water” at Heliopolis University on 24th

September 2018. During the day workshop for attendee was directed by HU staff members with

collaboration of AZHU and Aswan university representative. ( Attachment 6)

Aswan University


In addition to communication through internet and web Wiki based tools, Aswan University team participated in 3rd National Training Workshop organized by Suez Canal University,

Egypt as well as the Managerial workshop organized by Padova University, Italy. 1- 3rd National Training Workshop (28th June –1st July 2018), Suez Canal University, Egypt Aswan University team actively participated in the 3rd national meeting (attached: 3rd CCSAFS

National meeting Agenda). During this meeting, CCSAFS achievement and prospective tasks were discussed. Also the progress of MSc in CCSAFS validation, and Integrating the ECTS

Workload in the CCSAFS Course Modules were overviewed. The training workshops included: - Assessing the Integration of the ECTS Workload in the CCSAFS Course Modules

- Integrating the Community-based or Service Learning Activities in the CCSAFS Course Modules

- Assessing the Integration of Community-based learning activities in the CCSAFS Course Curriculum - Assessing the Integration of the SDGs in the CCSAFS Course Modules

- Assessing the Integration of the 10Cs in the CCSAFS MSc Curriculum - Integrating Problem-based Learning in the CCSAFS Course Modules - Concept and Methodologies for the CCSAFS MOOCs and Blended Learning

In addition to discussions of Financial and Administrative Issues.

2- Managerial meeting and Training Workshop (11–15 July 2018), Padova University, Italy

Aswan University team actively participated in the Managerial meeting (attached: CCSAFS

Managerial meeting Agenda). During this meeting, CCSAFS achievement and prospective tasks

were discussed. Also the progress of MSc in CCSAFS validation, and Integrating the ECTS

Workload in the CCSAFS Course Modules were overviewed.


All courses have been developed and Aswan University team participate in both preparing and revising processes. Accreditation the MSc. In Suez Canal university is the remaining challenges. Aswan University team support the validation and accreditation process by all ways as a part of agricultural sector council of Higher ministry of Education who is responsible for giving the approval to MSc degree.

M5.1: Centres of Excellence for CCSAFS established

Aswan University team has finished all the requirement of equipment purchase and the

equipment are already established in the Lab. In Faculty of Agriculture and Natural resources,

Aswan University, Sahary Campus (Attached CCSAFS Partner Informed Consent Document

Template for CoE)

HUSD

M1.2 Project management and communication plan and meetings

Project management and management meetings conducted on time on both national and

international levels. HUSD contributed by attended all management meeting and supporting the

development of the biannual reports on the national level.

M3.4: Continuous online capacity building and support

All training workshops completed. The last national training workshop was held in Ismailia.

HUSD contributed by attending each of the training workshops as well as disseminating the

training results on an institutional level in HUSD.


MSc. in CCSAFS programme structure and courses developed completed. HUSD contributed by

developing 3 courses for the M.Sc. Namely, the courses of Sustainability Justice & Food

Security, Consumer Behaviour, and a course in Economics. The courses have been revised and

adjusted on the basis of the internal and external quality review.

M4.2. CCSAFS course syllabi and course modules

11-16 CCSAFS MSc. course syllabi and course modules completed. HUSD contributed by

reviewing many of the syllabi and providing feedback as well as developing 3 syllabi and course

modules.


Validation and approval of the CCSAFS MSc currently in progress. HUSD contributed by

supporting the initiative of Suez Canal University for applying for the validation and approval.

Namely, by developing a feasibility study of the Masters Degree and providing the experience of

the university in establishing new, innovative programmes.

M7.l. Reports on monitoring and internal quality assurance.

Reports on monitoring and internal quality assurance currently being conducted. HUSD contributed by contributing to the peer review of the courses established by other Egyptian universities for the CCSAFS courses. M7.2. Reports on monitoring and external quality assurance.

Reports on monitoring and external quality assurance currently being conducted. HUSD

contributed by sending all of the courses to the external examiners and making and any all

changes required to reach the quality assurance needed.

HUSD has begun creating networks with international partners in the field of agriculture.

Specifically, HUSD has begun communication and networking with the University of Maribor,

Slovenia, and Hohenheim University, Germany for cooperating in the field of agriculture

education and research through agreements and MoUs.

M8.3: Connection with international networks completed

HUSD has begun creating networks with international partners in the field of agriculture.

Specifically, HUSD has begun communication and networking with the University of Maribor,

Slovenia, and Hohenheim University, Germany for cooperating in the field of agriculture

education and research through agreements and MoUs.

M8.4: Int. conference & scientific community dissemination

Int. conference & scientific community dissemination in progress. HUSD contributed by

discussing the CCSAFS project in various conferences both those conducted by HUSD as well as

conferences in which members of the CCSAFS team attended and presented at.

Jerash University

We continued syllabi preparation and validation. There was a mutual validation between Jordan

and Egypt. Syllabi validation continued by partners in Europe (Padua University).

The syllabi modules were prepared.

The distribution of ECTs according to modules was prepared. External validation by the external

evaluator Nancy Kanbar is running till this moment.

We attended the Managerial and Regional meeting hosted by University of Padova, working

days 12-14 July. The participant from Jerash university were:

1- Prof. Ahmed Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Hawamdeh 2- Dr. Mohamed Salem Adel Al Tarawneh 3- Dr. Kamel Ina'm Kamel Sultan 4- Dr. Ebraheem Suliman Yousuf AL Taha'at

Below is the program of Padua University managerial meeting:


Security (CCSAFS)

4th CCSAFS Managerial Meeting

12–14 July 2018

University of Padova, Italy

Day 1 – 12th July, 2018


9:30-10:00 Welcome


10:00-10:30

The validation of the CCSAFS Programme in Jordan: Planning the Next

Step


10:30 – 11:00 Developing the Blended Learning CCSAFS Courses: What is Needed

Prof. Vassilis Makrakis (University of Crete)

11:00 – 11:30

Discussion


Session 2: The CCSAFS Blended Learning Environment

12:00-14:00

Training Workshop on the CCSAFS Blended Learning Environment

Monitored & reporting by: Nikos Larios (University of Crete)

14:00-15:30 Lunch

Session 3: Managerial Issues related to Communication, Reporting and Assessing

15:00 – 15:30

Communication through the Online Community of Practice

Monitored & reporting by: Nelly Kostoulas & Nikos Larios (University of

Crete)

15:30 – 16:00 Reporting & Assessing

Monitored & reporting by: Nikos Larios


16:30 – 17:00

Establishing Connections between CCSAFS and other Similar

Programmes

Prof. Michele Biasutti and UNIP Team

17:00 – 18:30

The CCSAFS Centers of Excellence: Managerial Issues

Round table: Prof. Vassilios Makrakis, Prof. Michele Biasutti, Prof. Manal

Hefny, Prof. Ibrahim Tahat, Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh & Prof. Omar Ramzy


Day 2 – 13th July, 2018

Session 4: Assessing the Integration of the SDGs in the CCSAFS Course Modules

09:00 -

11:00

Visit of Legnaro Facilities: experimental Farm and Fields

Padova Team

11:00 –

13:00

Group Work on Syllabus External Revision

Monitored & reporting Prof Nancy Kanbar

13.00-

14.30 Lunch

14:30-

15:00

Welcome

Prof. Giuseppe Radaelli, Head of Padova Agriculture and Veterinary Science

School; Dr Susanne Kloehn, responsible for International Relations

15:00-

16:00

Workshop on the further cooperation for the students and staff mobility

between CCSAFS and Sustainable Development (Erasmus +)

Monitored & Reporting Dr Luca Fasolato & Dr Paolo Carletti (University of

Padova)

16.00-

17.30

Workshop on possible shared research projects in CCSAFS consortium

Monitored & Reporting Dr Luca Fasolato & Dr Paolo Carletti (University of

Padova)

17:30 –

18:00 Coffee Break

18.00-

19.00

Internal Syllabus peer reviewing presentation of results

Prof. Michele Biasutti and UNIP Team

Day 3– 14th July, 2018

9:00-10:00 Managerial meeting

10:00-11:00 Open discussion


11:30-14:00

Field trip

14:00-16:00 Lunch

16:00- Consultations

3) We attended the 3rd National Training Workshop (NTW) in Jordan for Jordanian and EU

partners, hosted by UOJ/JUST, and held at Crown Plaza Dead Sea between 29th July-1st August.

The following is the program of the workshop:


Security (CCSAFS)

3rd National Training Workshop

29th July –1st August 2018

University of Jordan & JUST, Crown Blaza Hotel Dead Sea Jordan

Day 1 – 29th July, 2018

12.00 – 14:00 Preparation for the managerial meeting

16:00 – 19:00 Managerial Meeting

Day 2 – 30th July, 2018


9:30-10:00 Welcome


10:00-10:30

CCSAFS Achievements and Prospective Tasks


10:30 – 11:00

The Approval of the MSc in CCSAFS by the Jordanian Ministry of

Higher Education: The Next Steps


11:00 – 11:30

Integrating the ECTS Workload in the CCSAFS Course Modules: The

Experiences from the Egyptian Case


Session 2: Assessing the Integration of the ECTS Workload in the CCSAFS Course

Modules

12:00-13:00

Group Work for Core & Optional Courses: Reflection and Updating

Monitored & reporting by: Prof. Ibrahim Tahat

13:00-13:30

Integrating the Community-based or Service Learning Activities in the

CCSAFS Course Modules: The Experiences from the Egyptian Case


13:30-15:00 Lunch

Session 3: Assessing the Integration of Community-based learning activities in the

CCSAFS Course Curriculum

15:00 – 16:30 Group Work for Core Courses Activities: Reflection and Updating

Monitored & reporting by:


17:00 – 18:30

Group Work for Optional Courses Activities: Reflection and Updating


18:30 – 19:00 Reporting

Day 3 – 31st July, 2018

Session 4: Assessing the Integration of the SDGs in the CCSAFS Course Modules

09:00 - 10:00

Integrating SDGs Activities in the CCSAFS Course Modules: The

Example of the Egyptian Case

Prof. Nelly Kostoulas

10:00 – 11:30

Group Work for CCSAFS Courses Activities in Jordan: Reflection and

Updating



12:00 – 12:30

Integrating the 10Cs in the CCSAFS course modules: The Example of the

Egyptian Case

Prof. Vassilios Makrakis

12:30-14:00

Group work for CCSAFS courses activities in Jordan: Reflection and

updating

Monitored by:

14.00-15.30 Lunch

15:30-16:00 Integrating Problem-based Learning in the CCSAFS Course Modules:

The Example of the Egyptian Case


16.00-17.30 Group Work for CCSAFS Courses Activities in Jordan: Reflection and

Updating



Session 6: Concept and Methodologies for the CCSAFS MOOCs and Blended Learning

18.00-18.30 Setting the stage


18:30 - 20:00 Group Work for MOOC Courses

Monitored by:

Day 4 – 1st August, 2018

Session 6: Concept and Methodologies for the CCSAFS MOOCs and Blended Learning

9:00-9:30 Managerial issues


9:30-11:00 Open discussion


11:30-13:00

Reflections on the workshop activities

13:00-14:00 Presentation of results

14:00-16:00 Lunch

16:00- Consultations

On Jun, 12, 2018, the Higher Education Council agreed on the introduction of the new Master

Program at Jerash University, named the Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food

Security (CCSAFS). This decision was issued under the condition of not accepting any student

till finishing the accreditation process. Below is the copy of the letter of acceptance which stated

that:

Dear Sirs,

I would like to inform you that the Higher Education Council, during his twelfth meeting in June,

10, 2018, has took the decision to accept the introduction of the Master Program specialized in

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security at your university under the

condition of not accepting any student till the achievement of the accreditation standards.

The minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and

The chairman of Higher Education Council

Prof. Adel Twaisi

Then after the Higher Education Accreditation Committee had visited the university at and

agreed at all preparations made to accept students in the new semester which starts at September

2018.

The Centre of Excellence plan had been prepared and sent to Prof. Makrakis.

At July, 15, 2018 the Board of the Higher Education Accreditations Authority and its Quality

Assurance Board issued a its decision number 312/32/2018 for their future requirements for the

continuing accreditation process as follows (below is the translated decision contents).

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Greetings

I would like to inform you that the Board of the Higher Education Accreditations Authority and

its Quality Assurance Board have adopted at its 32/2018 meeting held on 15/8/2018, the decision

No. 312/32/2018, which reads as follows:

1 - The appointment of a member of the teaching staff of a doctorate degree and specialized in

the field of climate change or equivalent by the beginning of the second year from the date of

obtaining special accreditation for the program and in accordance with the instructions and

criteria for the general accreditation of the graduate programs

2. Achieving 50% of the contracts of the faculty members for at least three years by the

beginning of the second year from the date of obtaining the special accreditation for the program

3 The provision of 25% of faculty members who are graduates of universities that teach in

English language by the beginning of the second year from the date of obtaining the special

accreditation for the program

4. Providing the accrediting Body with the beginning of the work of the faculty members who are

accredited in the specialization by the beginning of the first semester of the first academic year of

the academic year 2018/2019, where Otherwise the program's special accreditation well be under

reconsideration

5. Providing the authority with new references in Arabic language in the specialization by the

beginning of the first semester of the academic year 2018/2019, where the determination of the

special program capacity will be reconsidered by the beginning the second year from the date of

obtaining your accreditation for the program

Sincerely yours'

The Board of the Higher Education Accreditations Authority and its Quality Assurance Board

Prof. Dr. Bashir Al-Zu'bi

The requirements in this decision will be achieved in the coming few months according to the

timing mentioned in this decision. Below the picture of this decree. The picture below shows this

decree.

The number of students enrolled in this program reached 18 students for the first semester. The

list of the students and their emails is shown below below.

The dissemination process is going on. Advertisements were made through the university site and

in various social media and Agricultural Engineers Association site. Some of the links are shown

below;

http://www.jpu.edu.jo/jpu/index.php

http://www.jpu.edu.jo/jpu/post.php?id=16

Note that you can find dissemination brochures and pictures send to the social media sites, the

Agricultural Engineers Association and Jerash University sites.


http://www.jpu.edu.jo/jpu/post.php?id=16

Name E-Mails

1 Maher Ali Abdelqader [email protected]

2 Moath Salman AlAbass [email protected]

3 Salah Abdul Kareem AlRfooh [email protected]

4 Raid Issa Al-Smadi [email protected]

5 Anas Mohammad Al Titi [email protected]

6 Fawzi Eid AlKhaza’leh [email protected]

7 Eraz Jamal AlSous [email protected]

8 Alia Rasheed AlJarrah [email protected]

9 Ala’aldin Ibrahim Abedalaziz [email protected]

10 Mansour Abd ElRahman AlJabali [email protected]

11 Ammar Abd Al Majeed Taa’n [email protected]

12 Wasfi Ahmad Al Omari [email protected]

13 Mohammad Ali Al Na’yam [email protected]

14 Ghazi Faisal Abughnaim [email protected]

15 Almutaz Bllah Ahmad Abu. Zeton [email protected]

16 Shadi Yahya [email protected]

17 Amjad Mohammad Haymour [email protected]

18 Ziad Salem AlAqeel [email protected]

The autumn/winter semester of the academic year 2018-19 courses and the professors teaching

these courses are as follows:

N NAME OF THE COURSE JORDAN

Name e-mails

1 Climate Change, Sustainable

Agriculture and Food Security

Ali Jaddo

bkhitan

Alsharafat

[email protected]

2 Climate Change Adaptation and

Mitigation.

Ihab Husni

Mohammed

Ghabeish

[email protected]

3 Consumer Behavior and Food Security

and Marketing

Ali Jaddo

bkhitan

Alsharafat

[email protected]

The dissemination process is going on. Advertisements were made through the university site and

in various social media and Agricultural Engineers Association site. Some of the links are shown

mailto:[email protected]




















below;


https://www.facebook.com/JerashUn

Also a brochure was prepared and distributed to all related people and institutions. The brochure

is shown in attached pdf file.

The ICT Lab and Centre of Excellence were prepared and ready for students and teachers use.

JUST


Project management and communication meetings conducted on time. JUST attended all the

meetings at national and international level.


Development of syllabi on 1.Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Security. 2.

Sustainable management of Soil and Water. 3. Sustainable and Ethical Livestock Management

M5.1: Centres of Excellence for CCSAFS established

One CCSAFS Excellence Lab was prepared.

M5.2: Blended Learning Laboratories established

One blended learning laboratory established [30 PCs, 2 pieces of multisystem (printer and

scanner), stream server, camera, and interactive board were installed]

Mutah University

1. Attending the meeting in Padova University-Itally (Jully-2018)

2. Attending the workshop in Padova University-Itally (Jully-2018)

3. Attending the meeting in Dead Sea-Jordan (August 2018)

4. Developing the course syllabus

5. Developing the course modulus

6. Establishing the Excellency centre at Mutah University


https://www.facebook.com/JerashUn



Fourth Management meeting (12–14 July 2018)

Project management and management meetings conducted on time on both national and

international levels. SDF contributed by attended all management meeting and supporting the

development of the biannual reports on the national level.

M3.3: Training sessions (1 national & 1 multi-national).

All training workshops completed. The last national training workshop was held in Ismailia. SDF

contributed by attending each of the training workshops as well as disseminating the training

results on an institutional level in SDF. M6.1: CCSAFS implementation plan completed

SDF contributed to the development of the implementation plans for the project.


Reports on monitoring and internal quality assurance currently being conducted. SDF contributed by contributing to the peer review of the courses established by other Egyptian universities for the CCSAFS courses M8.3: Connection with international networks completed

SDF has begun creating networks with international partners in the field of agriculture.

Specifically, SDF has begun to reach out to its various partners in the industry and in the field of

organic agriculture to raise awareness of the project and CCSAFS Masters. Also, it connected the

CCSAFS masters to the World Dignity University Conference. M8.4: Int. conference & scientific community dissemination

Int. conference & scientific community dissemination in progress SDF contributed by discussing

the CCSAFS project in various conferences both those conducted by SDF as well as conferences

in which members of the CCSAFS team attended and presented at.



Continuous coordination for progress, achievements and obstacles are monitored by the SCU

institutional coordinator. Coordination meetings are organized frequently gathering the project

team members in addition to the Scientific Council of the Programme to discuss different issues

relate with running for the project and MSc in CCSAFS programme.

The 2nd managerial meeting was held from 12th – 14th July 2018, Padova University, Italy. Other

communication tools for project’s coordination are carried out by e-mails and social media.


The 4th biannual report is prepared to state the progress, achievements, obstacles, development

needs across all WP’s. Any encountered problems and risks that may affect the smooth running

of the project and delay the tasks implementation are also documented.

M3.4: Continuous online capacity building and support

Training needs are specified by the staff involved in CCSAFS course development based on

questionnaires filled in by staff after the 2nd NTW in Aswan (25-28, January, 2018). The

questionnaires template including; necessary skills and competences needed to be considered in

developing the CCSAFS course modules and teach the MSc curriculum to be developed.

Staff joining in the 3rd NTW (28th June -1st July, 2018) was selected according to their

specialization, participation in CCSAFS course development. 12 staff from SCU participated in

the 3rd NTW (8 males and 4 females).

In continuation of staff training on CCSAFS course development and apply new learning

methodologies, the 3rd NTW was organized at SCU from 28th June -1st July, 2018 to build the

capacity for staff members participating in CCSAFS course development. Presentations on

validation progress for MSc in CCSAFS is presented, several workshops and working groups on

implementing teaching methods (Community-based Learning and PBL), ECTS integration in

course modules were also addressed. Progress on projects achievements, delay in implementing

some activities, comments provided by the programme officer in Brussels on the technical report

were all discussed by Prof. V. Makrakis. Assessment questionnaires were distributed among the

participants at the end of the workshop to assess the effectiveness of the training sessions and

materials; expectations and future training needs, impacts of training on teaching activities and

other course structure.

Activities carried out at CoE in SCU


Programme bylaw is already prepared including: introduction to CCSAFS, objectives, admission

criteria, evaluation and grading policy, enrolment policy, student’s specialization background,

core and optional courses, learning outcomes and contents, description of thesis writing, defence

policy and supervision committee construction.


Continuous developing and upgrading of CCSAFS courses by SCU team members were done

before and during the 3rd NTW. Courses were updated using new learning methods such as PBL

and SBL. It was agreed to finalize all developing process for CCSAFS courses by July, 20th.

Then completed courses were uploaded through OCoP for external reviewing process. In August,

2018, Prof. Makrakis e-mailed a template table to be used by CCSAFS partners as guidelines for

ECTS integration into course modules. Three courses belongs to SCU were uploaded on OCoP.

The other three courses were updated without uploading. However, still course development

process is under progression and improvement.


The programme bylaw has been already approved by the council of post-graduate (24/7/2018) and SCU council (31/7/2018). Ten original copies of the approved bylaw stamped and signed by Dean of Faculty of Agriculture, Vice University for Post-graduate, and University president were sent to the Supreme council of universities on 5/8/2018. On 15/9/2018, during the meeting of Agricultural Sciences Sector Committee, the bylaw was distributed to five members for reviewing and providing reports. The site visit by the committee will be decided and expected to be before 15/10/2018. Meanwhile. The SCU council approved the starting of Pilot Assessment of the MSc in CCSAFS on 15/10/2018. The letter was sent to the Supreme Council of Universities/ MoHE, but the Secretary General of the Supreme Council refused to start the Assessment and stated that, the programme must be approved first by the Supreme Council of Universities. Currently, we are waiting (Faculty of Agriculture, SCU) the site visit by a committee from Supreme council of universities as art of the validation procedures for MSc in CCSAFS. Furthermore, the board of the Scientific Council of the Programme was identified and approved by the Faculty of Agriculture and SCU councils.

M5.3: CCSAFS blended learning & LMS platform

In continuation of BLL establishment, one extra laboratory is being prepared. In this regard, new tender specifications have been prepared to complete purchasing process. It is expected to buy: 13 PC’s, one MFU (photocopier, fax and scanning), one data show, one documentation interactive camera, one laptop and NVIVO software. Report on BLL’s vision, mission, and establishment procedures and purchasing process was prepared and e-mailed to Prof. Vassilis Makrakis. Process and procedures for establishing internet connections is being managed through the university budget Letter of consent was signed by the SCU president to maintain and upgrade the CCSAFS LMS

D5.4. Call for Applications and Selection for the First Cohort of Students

M5.4: Up to 40 students selected

Announcement and marketing to promote MSc in CCSAFS were practiced through social media (https://www.facebook.com/nehal.lotfy.1?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab), project platform, international platform (https://www.facebook.com/groups/MAIB.F.T.N/ (CIHEAMBari Alumni Network (FTN) Global), printed media. Suggested application form was prepared including general information, education background, language and computer skills, and motivation for enrolment in the programme (Attachment 9). In addition, report on proposed procedures necessary to promote application for MSc in CCSAFS and selection criteria was prepared (Attachment 10). Furthermore, an e-mail was sent to CCSAFS Partners asking them to discuss and prepare an agreement on how CCSAFS courses will be delivered, signing an agreement among the five partners including SEKEM describing their roles in supporting the delivery of the MSc in CCSAFS, and cooperation methodologies.

https://www.facebook.com/nehal.lotfy.1?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MAIB.F.T.N/

M7.l. Reports on monitoring and internal quality assurance

Internal quality control is performed through continuous coordination meetings with SCU team,

communications with CCSAFS partners through e-mails, biannual and financial reports, course

development and updating process according to guidelines and comments received from Prof.

Vassilis Makrakis. Also, questionnaires after national training workshops are prepared by

participants and e-mailed to the project’s coordinator. Reports on process and procedures of

establishing blended learning laboratories and CoE are currently being prepared. Progress and

financial reports on project’s activities and expenses were prepared on specific template and

submitted. 3rd biannual reports on activities, deliverables, risks, achievements were prepared and

submitted.

Validation of MSc programme in CCSAFS by Ministry of Higher education will be delayed because of long process it takes to validate programmes bylaws. This would impact on postpone the starting of programme pilot assessment. The programme bylaw was distributed on 15/9/2018 during the agricultural sector committee meeting. The next meeting should be on 20th October.



Fourth Management meeting (12–14 July 2018)

UJ team has participated in the two-day management meeting that was conducted in the

University of Padova, Italy.

Three staff members from UJ participated actively in this workshop (Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh,

Dr. Jawad Al-Bakri, Prof. Mohammad Al-Shraideh).

UJ team prepared and delivered the following presentations:

• Implementation of CCSAFS Center of Excellence at UJ

• Dissemination activities for CCSAFS project at UJ

Management meeting during the third NTW (July 29-August 1, 2018)

UJ team has participated in the management meeting that was conducted within the third

National training workshop (NTW) in Jordan.


One biannual report is being prepared for the project every six months.

M3.3: Training sessions (1 national & 1 multi-national).

Third National Training Workshop in Jordan (July 29-August 1, 2018)

The Third national training workshop was organized by The University of Jordan in Dead Sea,

Jordan.

The workshop aimed to:

1. Present and discuss the outcomes of the CCSAFS accomplished and plans for the further

development of the program.

2. Integrate the ECTS Workload in the CCSAFS Course Modules

3. Integrate the Community-based or Service Learning Activities in the CCSAFS Course

Modules

4. Integrate SDGs Activities in the CCSAFS Course Modules

5. Integrate the 10Cs in the CCSAFS course modules

6. Integrate Problem-based Learning in the CCSAFS Course Modules

7. Train on MOOC Courses

Four staff members from UJ participated actively in this workshop (Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh,

Dr. Jawad Al-Bakri, Prof. Abbas Al Omari, and Eng. Fedaa Al Qassem)


UJ team has been assigned to review selected courses content, syllabi and the course modules

according to their expert fields. UJ team followed-up the guidelines and templates included in the

CCSAFS Toolkit. The reviewed courses were as follow:

1. Climate change, mitigation and adaptation (Suez Canal University)

2. GIS & RS Applications in Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

(Suez Canal University, Faculty of Agriculture)


CCSAFS programme was officially approved by the Jordanian Higher Education Commission on June 12, 2018 to be established at Jerash University. UJ team taught the programme modules within the existing curricula. M5.1: Centres of Excellence for CCSAFS

The center of Excellence was officially established inside the premises of the university on July

25, 2018. An official document (Appendix 1) declaring that, and it was signed by the acting

president of UJ. Three blended learning laboratories will be utilized for the center activities. M5.2: Blended Learning Laboratories established.

Most of the project equipment was delivered and two blended learning labs (Appendix 2) were

established at Agriculture school and Nursing school. Additionally, a third laboratory in

Engineering school (Appendix 2) which was equipped by Tempus project (CLIMASP) will be

utilized for the activities of the CCSAFS center. The purchased equipment for the project are as

follow:

Item Quantity

1. Personal Computers (Desktop) 30

2. Photocopier Machine 1

3. Garmin GPS 2

4. Navigate System (Garmin Drive) 2

M5.3: CCSAFS blended learning & LMS platform

UJ team registered in the LMS platform to benefit from the courses and apply the blended learning approach in their courses.


UJ team prepared the needed progress reports, and reviewed some of the program courses.


CCSAFS project was disseminated during the international final conference for the Erasmus plus

project “Improving Higher Education Quality in Jordan using Mobile Technology for Integration

of Disadvantaged Groups (mEQUITY)” which took place on October 11, 2018 under the

patronage of HRH Prince Mired Ibn Zaid Ibn Raed at The University of Jordan. The role up for

CCSAFS project presented in the hall of the conference with other Erasmus plus projects.

Variations HUSD

The only delay in the project is in receiving the validation of the masters from the Egyptian

Supreme Council of Universities.


The only delay in the project is in receiving the validation of the masters from the Egyptian

Supreme Council of Universities.

Al-Azhar University, Αswan University, Jerash University, JUST, Mutah University,

Suez Canal University, The University of Jordan

No variations reported.

Current Problems & Risks HUSD





Delay in procedures of programme validation, where SCU has no power on the ministry

and the Supreme council of Universities. The council affirmed that, it is not possible to start

pilot assessment for the MSc in CCSAFS before getting approval


The variation in the exchange rate between the first and second Pre-financing payments

(increase of Euro/JD ratio) lead to some losses in Equipment procurement, as the first

payment was totally converted to JD during the first period when the Euro/JD ratio was

lower.



Anticipated Problems & Risks HUSD

It is expected that there may be some issues in finding participants and companies interested in taking part in the masters degree after it is developed as it is a very new and novel concept.


It is expected that there may be some issues in finding participants and companies interested in taking part in the masters degree after it is developed as it is a very new and novel concept. Suez Canal University

**Delay in programme validation.

** Students enrolment in the MSc programme is weak.

Should be solved through intensive dissemination by project consortium (all EG

consortium).

** Encourage students’ enrolment in the programme. In this regards, there was a discussion

with Dr. Omar Ramzy on preparing and approving a collaboration protocol between

SEKEM and the programme council board where students can receive training and

complete their MSc thesis at SEKEM companies. He promised to arrange the necessary

procedures to issue this agreement.

** Another necessary task was discussed with Dr. Ramzy, which is the role of SEKEM and

HU in providing students to join the programme, because few are interest in registration for

post-graduate studies.




Additional Information of Notable Achievements Μutah University

The Excellency center at Mutah will prepare many workshops for climate change and

sustainability for food security

Al-Azhar University, Αswan University, HUSD, Jerash University, JUST, SEKEM

Development Foundation, Suez Canal University, The University of Jordan

No additional information of notable achievements provided.


Al-Azhar University



etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the report submission:

Male 6

Female 0




date of the report submission:

Male 0

Female 0




trained/retrained to the date of the report submission:

Male 0

Female 0



the project to the date of the report submission:

Male 1

Female 0

Aswan University




Male 3

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

HUSD




Male 3

Female 2





Male 0

Female 0





Male 2

Female 0



Male 0

the project to the date of the report submission: Female 0

Jerash University




Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

JUST




Male 3

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

Mutah University




Male 8

Female 2





Male 0

Female 1





Male 0

Female 0




Male 5

Female 5


Number of academic staff from the partner country’s

Higher Education Institutions (professors, assistants with

teaching tasks, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the

report submission:

Male 0

Female 0



International Office, IT specialists, etc.) trained/retrained to

the date of the report submission:

Male 0

Female 0





Male 2

Female 0


attended programmes/courses developed in the framework

of the project to the date of the report submission:

Male 0

Female 0


Number of academic staff from the partner country’s

Higher Education Institutions (professors, assistants with

teaching tasks, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the report

submission:

Male 8

Female 4



International Office, IT specialists, etc.) trained/retrained to

the date of the report submission:

Male 1

(bookkeeping)

Female 1 (office

secretarial)





Male 0

Female 0


attended programmes/courses developed in the framework

of the project to the date of the report submission:

Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 9

Female 0





Male 0

Female 4




Male 0

Female 0

Progress in terms of equipment purchase (Describe what you have done, providing

proofs with documents)

Aswan University

Equipment purchase procedures to establish the CCSAFS Infrastructure has been done completely.

Communication Strategy - Completed [Provide information on the dissemination of the project results]

The dissemination process is going on. A brochure is being prepared in Arabic Language for the

new students to explain the program description, explaining the core courses, the elective courses

and the thesis. Below is the brochure:

Also we made advertisement at the Agriculture Engineers Association with the following

logo:

Communication Strategy - Forthcoming

Al-Azhar University

Connection for forthcoming activity of CCSAFS project will be through

Online Community of Practice

HUSD

It is planned to continuously communicate the project through different

media channels including television, newspapers, etc. as the masters is

developed and offered.

The plan will continue off of the previous in which more events will be

interlinked with the different conferences and events being held at

Heliopolis University. For example, any conferences held at the

university on sustainable agriculture or climate will include

presentations and discussions about the CCSAFS project and the results

and opportunities of the new master’s degree.

Furthermore, articles will be sent to multiple media companies in Egypt

for both online and news print publication. This includes

establishments such as Youm7, Akhbar El-Youm, and others. Through

the media channels of HUSD, the articles will be published in multiple

newspapers. This will not prove difficult because of the innovative

nature of the master’s program and will be interesting to be covered by

journalists. Finally, though the connections of the University, there is

the possibility to discuss this new Masters on popular T.V. channels such

as the Nile channel which is dedicated to cultural events and initiatives

with which we have a strong connection with and would welcome a

special segment on the masters.

JUST

Workshops on climate change


It is planned to continuously communicate the project through different

media channels including television, newspapers, etc. as the masters is

developed and offered.

Through the different channels of SDF, the project will continue be

disseminated on both the national and international level. This will

correspond with different activities and dissemination events such as

the World Dignity Conference that was held jointly at Heliopolis

University and at SDF. Furthermore, through SDF’s connections in the

industry, especially in the fields of Organic Agriculture, it will continue

to raise awareness on the CCSAFS masters and prepare for new

partners in this program.

Suez Canal University Dissemination on the project and MSc programme in CCSAFS will be communicated

through:

** Info days for under-graduate students (third and fourth-year students)

** Dissemination through printed media.

**Dissemination through TV media

** The upcoming 8th Arab Horticulture Conference, Hurgada, 11-13 October, 2018.

** International website. (CIHEAMBari Alumni Network (FTN) Global. ** SCU and Faculty of Agriculture websites

The University of Jordan • Info days about CCSAFS project will be held at The University of

Jordan with the participation of other Jo partners.

• Training for students

• Dissemination in international conferences

• Press releases about project activities.

5th CCSAFS BIANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT [October 2018- April 2019]

NAME OF PARTNERS: Aswan University, Al Azhar University, Heliopolis University for


Technology(JUST), Mutah University, SEKEM Development Foundation, Suez Canal

University, The University of Jordan

Aswan University

M1.2: Project management and communication plan and meetings

Communication with other partners of the project through internet and web Wiki based tools.

Aswan University also participate in the 31st Annual Conference of Human Dignity and

Humiliation Studies "Dignity and Innovation Strategies for a Sustainable Future, with a Special

Focus on Sustainable Agriculture and Water" which was held in Heliopolis University from 21st –

24th September 2018.

M4.3: Validation and approval of the CCSAFS MSc completed

Aswan University supports and greatly contributes to validate and accredit the MSc of CCSAFS

Program from the Agricultural sector of Ministry of Higher Education. The MSc program has

been approved in Suez Canal University as planned in the project schedule.

Aswan university participate in developing the course suggested by the Higher committee of

Universities to approved the MSc degree, the course with title “ Governance”, attached the course

syllabus template.

M5.1: Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS established

Aswan University team has finished all the requirement of equipment purchase and the equipment

are already established in the Lab. “Excellence Centre for CCSAFS in Faculty of Agriculture and

Natural Resources, Aswan University, Sahary Campus.


Aswan University team contribute in dissemination of MSC. Degree which has been approved in

Suez Canal University.

Al Azhar University


Currently, Al-Azhar university (p6) carrying the responsibility for organization the second

Regional meeting during the implementation phase for partners from Egypt and Jordan

Universities which will be held from 4-7 April 2019. 5th Biannual reports will be submitted before

30th March, 2019 in addition to financial statements and reposts including staff cost, travel

allowances for project mobility and Equipments purchasing up to 14th March, 2019.

M5.4 Call for Applications and Selection for the First Cohort of Students

AZHU has promoting the CCSAFS MSc program for students through social media and many

orientation classes. Also, CCSAFS website technically hyperlinked to Al-Azhar university

website. During the pilot phase at Suez canal university, two alumni students from AZHU were

attended 1st semester.

Orientation class about CCSAFS MSc program for 4th year students – Faculty of Agriculture

Μ6.2: Pilot Assessment for CCSAFS

AZHU team shared in technical support during implementation phase for CCSAFS MSc program

for first cohort of students. Currently, AZHU working to arrange a stakeholders meeting to discuss

their feedback for further improvement. Also, AZHU team developed and sent course entitled

Environmental governance suggested by committee of Agricultural studies sector for program

approval. AZHU will take a pre-emptive step for degree equivalent from Al-Azhar supreme

council for accreditation to motivate and encourage program dissemination and also further

improvement.

HUSD


HUSD organized the dignity conference that utilized as an interactive way to arrange the public

day in order to generate more and more creative ideas related to human dignity and its relation to

Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture. Local partners also attended the

conference.

M3.3: Training sessions

No training sessions or workshops were conducted nationally but online sessions were conducted

via ICT tools for the purpose of fine tuning the assessment tools of the courses that will be

implemented in the implementation phase.


HUSD supported SCU in the dissemination of the master programme of the Egyptian candidates

through social media and other online tools.

M6.1: CCSAFS implementation plan

HUSD supported SCU and other partners in the implementation plan of the programme. Two

candidate from HUSD will engage in teaching a course in the master programme entitled

“sustainability justice of food security and climate change”. HUSD with SDF prepared a detailed

plan for the training and field practices of the master programme that will be implemented during

the implementation phase. Only HUSD and SCU staff are engaged in the teaching of the CCSAFS

courses.

Μ6.2: Pilot Assessment for CCSAFS

HUSD supported SCU in the pilot assessment phase of the course entitled “sustainability justice of

food security and climate change”.

M8.3: Connection with international networks completed

HUSD participated in the annual meeting of Global Eco Village Network (GEN) in Harare,

Zimbabwe and the CCSAFS was presented as an innovative approach for sustainable practices and

reality implementation for the purpose of facilitating Eco Village scale-up.


Ph.D. candidate from Coventry University in collaboration with HUSD had a field visit within

CCSAFS themes and practices in SEKEM farm (Sustainable agriculture and food security) as part

of her Ph.D. Study.

Dr. Omar Ramzy gave a public speech, to the researchers and post-graduate candidates of

Coventry University, about the CCSAFS project and sustainable agriculture research at HUSD.

Dr. Omar Ramzy gave a public speech, to the researchers and post-graduate candidates of

Ludwigsburg University, about the CCSAFS project and sustainable agriculture research at

HUSD.

Jerash University

At this moment the number of registered students involved in CCSAFS Master Programme had

reached 24 buy the beginning of the second semester.

The dissemination of the programme is continuous as the following events had been done:

• The participation in the Eighth Scientific Agricultural Conference (ESAC-2018)

Agricultural challenges and sustainable development- held at the Faculty of Agriculture, Mutah

University, Karak – Jordan between 15-17 October, 2018. The conference programme is attached

to the email.

• The participation the 9th International Conference for Sustainable Agricultural

Development Held at Fayoum University between 4-6 March, 2019, in Egypt. Below is the

certificate of participation for Dr. Ebraheem Altahat and the participants of the conference.

• Workshop held at the Faculty of Agriculture at Jerash university at Mach 13 to explain the

CCSAFS programme for the participants from different Jordanian Institutes and the student of the

collage.

• The preparation of the dissemination programme will be presented at Jerash Agricultural

Scientific Conference that will be held between 18-24 April 2019.

• The dissemination continued on the social media websites as the university site, Facebook

university site, the Agricultural Engineers Association website and Facebook site and WhatsApp

college sites.

Monitoring and Evaluation of the CCSAFS and Teachers was done by direst contact between Prof.

Makrakis through email.

The Centre of Excellence and the ICT lab are receiving the students and researchers of the

CCSAFS Programme. The report and pictures were sent by the previous (4th) biannual report.

JUST

1st Milestone

Developing the Courses of the compared ones with the Egyptian curriculum for three

different courses for the CCSAFS program, and adding some topics for their modules.

JUST reviewed and submitted the final version of the Syllabi of:

1st one: Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Security.

2ed one: Sustainable management of Soil and Water.

3ed one: Sustainable and Ethical Livestock Management.

M2

Comparing the syllabi prepared by Egyptian partners with the ones prepared by us in

Jordan for The Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Security Course.

The comparison and development of the courses include the Sustainable Development Goals

(SDGs) as part of the modules. The ECTS workload allocation for the course “Climate Change,

Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Security” (a Table was included at the end of the syllabus), in

addition to the other items in the modules. This course address climate change and global warming

and how climate change has an impact on crop production, food supply, and food security. The

course also describes the issue related with the increase in world population and how this increase

adds pressure on the demand on food. The course also describes the best cultural practices for

sustainable crop production to meet the rising demand on food.

3rd Milestone


Jordan for The Sustainable management of Soil and Water Course.

The comparison and development include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of

the modules. The ECTS workload allocation for the course “The Sustainable management of Soil

and Water” (a Table was included at the end of the syllabus), in addition to other items in the

modules.

4th Milestone


Jordan for Sustainable and Ethical Livestock Management.

The comparison and development include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of

the modules. The ECTS workload allocation for the course “Sustainable and Ethical Livestock

Management” (a Table was included at the end of the syllabus), in addition to other items in the

modules. The course aims to help students develop key competencies including knowledge of

essential ecological, social, institutional, and economic dimensions as part of an ethical sustainable

farming system. Topics included are animal welfare and animal use ethics concept, animal welfare

inputs, livestock production systems and resources, animal welfare to improve production and

assessment of livestock production systems using welfare concept. Upon completion, students

should demonstrate an understanding of the role of livestock production in a sustainable

production system under the umbrella of welfare. Field trips are an essential part of this course;

students are expected to pay attention to where class meetings will be held based on the syllabus.


The CCSAFS Excellence Lab was established at JUST in July 2018 and equipped in October

2018, 30 PCs, 2 pieces of multisystem (printer and scanner), stream server, camera, and interactive

board were installed as implementation of CCSAFS project. The students and teachers from

different faculties join the lab for different educational and training workshops.

6th Milestone

Different Workshops as in the Table.

Name of workshop/training Target group

The Methodology of Scientific

Research

Staff and Post Graduate Students


Research


Design the Electronic Learning Staff


Research


The Orientation Workshop for the

New Academic Staff

New Staff

Excellence Day All the administrative and mangers

of Jordan University of Science and

Technology

Auditing The Staff Evaluation Students

7th Milestone

In March, 2019 an Info Day was launched about the CCSAFS project, many Agriculture Faculty’s

students attended and many teachers.

Mutah University


MU center 1) The Centers of Excellence established at Mutah University in 23-7-2018 2) Centers of Excellence at Mutah University equipped by

30 desktop computers which provided by the project Data show and smart board provided by Mutah University Tables and chair All electrical connections Proper room The center located at Scientific Deanship (first floor-New administrative building)

3) The average number of students using the Labs daily is of 40. The average number of

students using the Labs monthly is of 750-800. 4) The student using the lab to search about anything (multi use). Most of the presentation is

about the climate change 5) Some lecture will be provided 6) Eng. Emad Halsa is responsible for the lab

7) Capacity building (Omer Maaitah, Dr. Mohamed Majalee, Dr Mahsneh, Dr Saif

Nawayseh, Atef mahadeen, Adel abdel Ghanee and Dabour) 8) There is 8 presentation about the climate change and others



SDF supported, developed and attended the dignity conference with HUSD and also invited

participants.


SDF participated in the online sessions that were organized by HUSD



Continuous coordination for progress, achievements and obstacles are monitored by the SCU

institutional coordinator. Coordination meetings are organized frequently gathering the project

team members in addition to the Scientific Council of the Programme to discuss different issues

relate with running for the project and MSc in CCSAFS programme (Attachment 1). Other

communication tools for project’s coordination are carried out by e-mails.

M1.3 Biannual progress report

The 5th biannual report is prepared using CCSAFS template to state the progress, achievements,

obstacles, development needs across all WP’s. Any encountered problems and risks that may

affect the smooth running of the project and any delay in the activities implementation are also

documented.

M3.1: Training needs assessment completed

1- Training on developing concept maps as a tool for assessing course previous knowledge was

identified by the project's team. The needs for such training are: clarify the concept map efficiency

and importance to summarize the course structure, software that can be used to draw the maps,

help students organize and present basic knowledge of a course subjects graphically and how main

factors can be broken down into specific topics, finally how to evaluate the resulted maps

produced by students. This training is important, as staff lacking the skills and methods on how to

design it.

2- Preparing some programme courses in online form is essential to facilitate remote students to

benefits from the programme and increase the programme's admission percentage. Therefore, it is

important to held training sessions on this topic. The production processes is not as easy task

because the members are not professional in this field. So, it was suggested to prepare the lectures

in PowerPoint form then, Alaa Sadek and Basem Abdelghany (ICT students) will convert the

presentations into e-form and e-book. It is important that other EG partners do the same, since

SCU is implementing the programme other EG partners should take part in this activity, as

supporter, as mentioned din the project proposal.

3- Training staff members on how SDG's are connected with course modules; application of active

learning methods. This training is important to equip staff at the faculty with skills of apply new

teaching methods not only for CCSAFS master courses but also for their courses in other

programme. Specialist teaching staff from Education Faculty is the most appropriate person to

provide this training.

M3.2: Trainee staff selected

First training sessions were dedicated to staff member of CCSAFS projects who are participating

in pilot-phase assessment, to provide them with steps of preparing the maps and software that can

be used to draw it. In addition, how maps will be evaluated. Seven members attended the training,

where Alaa Sadek (ICT student) provided the training.

The second training was provided also to staff members of CCSAFS projects who participated in

MSc courses development. Nine persons participated in the training session.

The third: one-day training session was delivered to all staff members at faculty of agriculture to

help them design new active and attractive learning methods, which they can apply during

teaching the courses.


The three training sessions were provided by teaching assistant (Alaa Sadek- ICT master student)

and Dr. Nehal Lotfy (Assistant Professor and member of CCSAFS project). The training is an

extension of professional development support of staff participating in CCSAFS master

programme teaching in addition to teaching staff at Faculty of Agriculture as a whole. One-day

training on active learning methods is provided by D. Nehal Lotfy. The training sessions aimed to

continue the capacity building of teaching staff either participating in CCSAFS master courses

teaching and assessment, or other colleagues at the faculty. Presentations, sheet of attendants and

evaluation are included (Attachments 2, 3, 4).


Programme bylaw is already prepared in Arabic and English versions including: introduction to

CCSAFS, objectives, admission criteria, evaluation and grading policy, enrolment policy,

enrolment requirements/qualifications, core and optional courses, course objectives and contents,

description of thesis writing, defence policy and supervision committee construction. (Attachment

5)

M4.2: CCSAFS course syllabi and course modules

The CCSAFS Master courses have been modified by the Higher Education Commission

Committee during the site visit to discuss the programme bylaw and investigate the programme

facilities by the commission on 15/12/2018. The modifications included: changes in course titles,

deletion of one course, split one course into two courses, addition of university/faculty

requirements courses, add new course, change in ECTS allocation for each course, include some

articles relate with students admission, course deletion and registration …..etc. Due to such

changes, CCSAFS team have to include the necessary modifications. However, an e-mail was sent

to EG partners asking them to redistribute the ECTS for course modules. The new course titled

"Environmental Governance" that has been selected by the site visit committee is developed by

one colleague from Aswan University. The course still needs improvement in case of modules

number, activities preparation; follow the templates for course syllabus and modules. The course

"Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation" was adapted to include the concepts and strategies

on Sustainable Agriculture. The course was sent to Dr. Nancy Kanbar for possible evaluation. The

reason for such modifications is that, the first course (Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture

and Food Security". was deleted by the committee. The course "Research Methodology and

advanced Statistical Analysis" was changed to "Statistics and Design and Analysis of Biological

Experiments", currently one colleague is working on developing it. The course "Research

Methodology" was assigned as one of the University requirements course. Attached is the final

course title which is approved by Higher Education Commission committee. (Attachment 6).

M4.3: Validation and approval of the CCSAFS MSc completed

During the meeting of Agricultural Studies Sector Committee- Supreme Council of Universities

(15/9/2018), the committee which is responsible for programme bylaw investigation and site visit

was identified (three professors and two secretariats). The committee sent its first report in

October, 2018 to SCU. The second report was sent in November, 2018. The responses to the

comments provided by the investigating committee were reported by three CCSAFS members to

be ready for discussion during site visit (Attachments, 7 & 8). On December 15th, 2018, the

committee arrived at the Faculty of Agriculture, the site visit started at 9.00 am and ended at 6.00

pm. The meeting for site visit included: The faculty of agriculture board (Dean, vice Dean for

Graduate, Students and Education, and Community Services), two members from the CCSAFS

and SCU institutional coordinator were present this meeting. During the visit, discussions,

negotiations and arguments and disagreements were raised. By the end of the site visit, the

committee visited the teaching laboratories, the farm and blended learning labs. The committee

sent its final and collective report to SCU (Attachment 9) and stressed on sending the necessary

corrections and the final version of the programme bylaw before 5/1/2019 to be able to approve it

during this meeting. The corrections was completed and approved by SCU council on 25/12/2018

(Attachment 10). Then, final bylaw version was approved, and the coordinator was asked to

prepare an English version. Eight Arabic copies and eight and English versions were sent to the

Agricultural Studies Sector Committee for final approval on 16/1/2019, then approved by

Supreme Council of Universities on 16/2/2019. The ministerial decree was issued on 24/2/2019

(Attachment 11).


Institutionalization of Center of Excellence in CCSAFS has been approved by Faculty of

Agriculture and SCU Councils on 22/1/2019 (Attachment 12). Previously the report on CoE using

specific template was sent with the 4th biannual progress report included the principle topics:

vision, mission, strategic goals and activities. Attached are report on CoE including photos for

BLL with purchased equipment showing official stickers of Erasmus +. (Attachment 13)


The procedures of purchases to complete the establishment of BLL are almost finished. A request

for purchasing PC's, lab top, power point presenters, multifunction unit (printer, scanner, and

photocopier) interactive data show and documentation camera, and one wireless microphone was

provided to the university president. Purchasing procedures (communication with companies,

technical and financial offers, technical and financial inspection and selection of best dealers,

order forms, technical inspection of purchases, equipment inventory and bank transfers). In this

regard, report on BLL’s vision, mission was prepared and sent with the 4th Biannual Progress

report. The procedures and process for purchasing equipment to complete the establishment of

BLL are attached. (Attachment 14).


Up to 40 students selected

Report on methods used to call for the first group of students to enrol the MSc programme in

CCSAFS is show in details in the attached file. (Attachment 15). Two monitoring meetings were

arranged to discuss programme details and study guidelines with the new coming students who

showed interest in programme enrol. (Attachment 16, 17)

M6.2: Pilot assessment of CCSAFS completed

To perform Pilot Assessment of CCSAFS program, specific tools/questionnaires were provided by

the project's coordinator to be used for assessment. Two forms of questionnaires were used, the

first is closed and general to measure students' attitudes and personal skills, the second one assess

the basic/previous knowledge of taught courses. Both questionnaires were distributed to the

students at the beginning of the semester and before starting course teaching. Eight students are

enrolled the programme and officially registered for MSc in CCSAFS. Four courses are taught

during the first semester (Climate Change, Adaptation and Mitigation, Sustainable Management of

Soil and water, GIS and RS applications, Sustainability Justice of Food security and Climate

Change). The 1st course is taught by two teaching staff, the 2nd and 3rd and the 4th courses are

taught by one staff each. The course instructors distributed the general questionnaire and asked the

students to complete it, however there was not a problem to fill in it. The second questionnaires

were a little bit difficult, because it is considered new for instructors and students to develop a

concept map. Two courses were difficult for students to develop the concept map due to

deficiency in background and basic information such as "GIS and RS applications" and

"Sustainability Justice of Food security and Climate Change". Therefore, the map was not so nice

and not enough informative; in this case, the instructors had to present some information about the

course to help students prepare preliminary maps.

M7.l Reports on monitoring and internal quality assurance issued

Internal quality control is performed regularly for each WP to ensure the execution of activities on

time and quality of deliverables. The tools and processes include: reports of continuous

coordination meetings with project' team members, communications with CCSAFS partners

through e-mails, preparing biannual and financial statement reports, course development using

specific templates, courses updating process according to guidelines and comments received from

Prof. Vassilis Makrakis, restructure of courses for MSc in CCSAFS based on site visit by Higher

Education Commission committee from Supreme Council of Universities, updated courses syllabi

and modules based on site visit committee recommendations. Institutionalization of CoE by SCU

council is finalised, equipment purchasing procedures for completing BLL establishment are

finalised. Progress and financial reports on project’s expenses are prepared on specific template

and submitted. 5th biannual progress report on activities, deliverables, risks, achievements were

prepared and submitted. For each WP, activities are described and deliverables are collected,

arranged and attached.



Management meeting for UJ Team (March 18, 2019)

UJ team has conducted a management meeting to discuss the following issues:

Discuss biannual reports (Achieved results)

Discuss the center of excellence report and implementation

Form steering committee for the center

Discuss CCSAFS program courses and their implementation at UJ

Planning for dissemination activities in UJ and other partners in Jordan (training for

students, posters in exhibitions, Video, publications, promotion of the master program in Jerash

(official launching ceremony, Networking event)

Preparation for next meeting in Egypt

Preparation for CCSAFS monitoring visit on April 15, 2019

Agenda, Attendance Sheet were prepared (Appendix 1) for the meeting.




Regional Training Workshop in Egypt (April 4-7, 2019)

A Regional Training Workshop was organized by The Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.


1. Review of the CCSAFS Pilot Phase Assessment in Jordan & Egypt

2. Review of the CCSAFS MOOCs and LMS

3. Reporting on the Centers of Excellence and ICT Laboratories in Jordan and Egypt

4. The MSc CCSAFS Implementation Phase

5. Strategies and Instruments for Formative and Summative Evaluation of the CCSAFS MSc

6. Reporting on Dissemination Activities

7. Discuss CCSAFS Final Consortium Meeting and Conference in Crete

Four staff members from UJ were participated actively in this workshop (Prof. Ahmed Al-

Salaymeh, Dr. Jawad Al-Bakri, Prof. Abbas Al Omari, and Eng. Leena Marashdeh)

Student Training Workshop in UJ (March 19, 2019)

In the framork of CCSAF center at UJ, a workshop was conducted by Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh

and Prof. Jawad Albakri for the master students of Sustainable Development and Renewable

Energyat School of Engineering. The training included Theoretical and Practical sessions.


1- Define the Geographic coordinate systems to students

2- Introduce the GPS and navigation system equipment and their uses

3- Introduce GIS and its applications

4- Introduce GIS software packages

Attendance sheet, and report were prepared for this workshop (Appendix 2)


The plan of Center of Excellence was set, and steering committee is formed.


The three blended learning labs are being used by students.

Μ5.3: CCSAFS blended learning & LMS platform

UJ team are implementing CCSAFS modules and teaching methodologies (Appendix 3) within the

existing programs at UJ, the courses are:

1- Course in the fall Semester/2018

Course title: Geographic Information Systems (0604330), (Bachelor level)

Number of students: 19 (16 F, 3 M)

The course covers 50% of the CCSAFS course “GIS Applications in Climate Change, Sustainable

Agriculture and Food Security”

2- Course in Spring semester (Sem2/2018-2019):

Course title: GIS and Remote Sensing Applications (0604910), (Doctoral level)

Number of Students: 9 (5 F, 4M)


Agriculture and Food Security” and 50% of the CCSAFS course of Precision Farming

The two courses are based on the use of blended learning through e-learning portal and includes

manuals that were prepared by Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri based on ESRI ArcGIS training material, in

addition to projects carried out by the students.

The GIS course for BSc level includes a training manual of essential flows and a project to map

the campus of the university of Jordan. the final exam of the lab was based on analysis of

population density map for Jordan main districts.

The GIS-RS course for PhD includes 50% GIS material and is based on interactive learning and

blended learning methods, in which assignments are scheduled for each week with a short quiz at

each session in the assignment. The manual which is covered for GIS is (GIS Tutorial book 1). the

other 50% part is Remote sensing (precision farming base) and includes exercises and assignments

that are based on manuals that were prepared by Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri, with focus on applications

related to water, climate change and sustainable agriculture, with the focus on use of different

sources of free RS data (MODIS for drought mapping, Landsat OLI for mapping agricultural areas

and changes in forests and Sentinel-2 for mapping irrigated crops and their water consumption).


Same as in task 5.3


UJ team prepared the needed progress reports.


CCSAFS project was disseminated during the international final conference for the Erasmus plus

project “Modernization of Teaching Methodologies in Higher Education:

EU Experience for Jordan and Palestinian Territory (METHODS)” which took place on March 7,

2019 under the patronage of H.E. Prof. Walid Maani, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific

Research at the University of Jordan (UJ).

The purpose of the conference was to bring together a variety of faculty members and stakeholders

to learn about and identify opportunities for modernizing the teaching and learning methodologies

in Jordan and Palestine.

The 128 workshop registered participants represented over 20 organizations, including

governments, universities, associations, media and non-governmental organizations.

Among the participants there were President of Jordan University of Science and Technology,

Prof. Saeb Khreisat, and President of Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Prof. Najib Abu Karaki. In

addition; the senator Prof Rida Khawaldeh, and many vice presidents and deans of different

faculties.

Variations

Al-Azhar University

AZHU and SCU team representative disseminated CCSAFS project information and MSc

program details among attendees and participants from many stakeholders and students during 5th

National Erasmus+ day on 8 th October, 2018 in Cairo. Dissemination was carried on by

presentations, posters, flyers and through information desks.

HUSD

Due to the delay in receiving the validation of the masters from the Egyptian Supreme Council of

Universities, the number of the students who applied for the master programme are few.

JUST

The CCSAFS Lab Installation of Equipment due to the tendering process.



Pilot assessment of Master programme was planned to be started in October, 2018 as outlined in the

project proposal. It was not possible to start at exact date because we (SCU) are not allowed to

disseminate about the program in a public way before the programme validation by MoHE. So, the

number of students that we have received only two. Just the programme has been approved on

24/2/2019, we have announced for opening the application for the programme enrolment. The first

group enrolled the program is eight.

Aswan University, Jerash University, Mutah University, SEKEM Development Foundation,


Νο variations reported



1- The principle problem and risk that the project has faced during the previous period is the delay of

pilot assessment of MSc programme. Such problem has affected the number of students enrols the

master programme. The period we had to announce about the programme was very narrow and we

tried to receive any number of students to apply the pre-assessment tools sent by the Project's

coordinator. In this regards, our partner from AZU provided us with three students, another two

students were introduced by SCU team. After very short time, three students have left and the three

continued study. As the programme has been validated on 24th of February, we could start teaching

the first semester courses officially with eight students. It is not possible to carry out the second

semester before the 2nd Regional training workshop, because students should pass the 1st semester

exams in May, 2019.

2- The second problem is students' placement/ training. It is very important to establish a bilateral

agreements with agribusiness companies, authorities, etc. Where students will spend training period

relevant with the taught courses.

3- Teaching materials (books, chapters, videos, etc..) for some courses that lacks teaching staff from

SCU are needed to be collected and prepared. So, EG partners should kindly help in this issue.

4- Developing e-courses (transform courses into e-forms) is important, as many students showed

interest in program enrolment but they are employees or present in another country and cannot

participate in lectures and practical lessons regularly.

Aswan University, Al Azhar University, Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development

(HUSD), Jerash University, Jordan University of Science and Technology(JUST), Mutah

University, SEKEM Development Foundation, The University of Jordan

Νo problems or risks reported


HUSD

It is expected that there may be some issues in finding participants and companies interested in

taking part in the Master’s degree after it is developed as it is a very new and novel concept.


**Problems with student's training / placement.

Establishing an agreement with SEKEM is a must to facilitate students training. Also, is very

essential to connect students with employment /labour markets during their study through allocate

students at employment places while training.

** Develop the programme courses in e-courses and e-books

EG partner should help with the aid of ICT master students

** Prepare teaching sources/materials for some master courses which lack teaching staff at SCU.

EG partner universities must provide assistance in this issue before ending project fund.

** Encourage students’ enrolment in the programme.

Extensive dissemination by all EG partner universities is a must.

Aswan University, Al Azhar University, Jerash University, Jordan University of Science and

Technology(JUST), Mutah University, SEKEM Development Foundation, The University of

Jordan

Νo problems or risks reported


Al-Azhar University AZHU team Organize an official opening on 13th November, 2018 for CCSAFS Centre of Excellence and

invite Ex- Prime Minister and founder of Sharaf organization for sustainable development. Under the

patronage and presence of President of Al-Azhar university Prof. Dr. Al-Mahrasawy.

HUSD

We reclaimed a very good feedback from the current students at the Master programme on the two

instructors from HUSD.

The structure of the internship at SEKEM Farm is formulated by the experience of the international

network with SDF.

JUST

The workshops of the centre left good impression on the target groups and most of them were

interested in joining more workshops.

Mutah University

The Excellency Centre at Mutah will prepare many workshops for climate change and sustainability

for food security.

Aswan University, Jerash University, SEKEM Development Foundation, Suez Canal

University, The University of Jordan

No additional information of notable achievements provided.

Progress in terms of equipment purchase (Describe what you have done, providing proofs with

documents)

Aswan University

Equipment purchase procedures to establish the CCSAFS Infrastructure has been done completely.


Al-Azhar University



tasks, etc.) trained/retrained to the date of the report

submission:

Male 6

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




Male 1

Female 0

Aswan University




submission:

Male 3

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

HUSD




submission:

Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0

Number of staff from the partner country’s non Higher Male 0




Female 0




Male 2

Female 5

Jerash University




submission:

Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

JUST




submission:

Male 4

Female 0





Male 1

Female 2





Male 0

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0

Mutah University




submission:

Male 8

Female 2





Male 0

Female 1





Male 0

Female 0




Male 5

Female 5





submission:

Male 0

Female 0





Male 0

Female 0





Male 2

Female 0




Male 0

Female 0





submission:

Male 8

Female 3





Male 3(bookkeeping)

Female 2 (office secretarial)





Male 0

Female 0




Male 2

Female 6


Number of academic staff from the partner country’s Higher Male 12



submission:

Female 0





Male 0

Female 5





Male 0

Female 0




Male 13

Female 27

Communication Strategy- Achievements

HUSD

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9hoQ3D7N8&feature=youtu.be

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Cak9fCG1A1Aj4mbQuHVvPYeqr3ahzkE/view?ts=5c8e6411

• https://www.sekem.com/en/highlights-of-the-31st-annual-conference-of-human-dignity-and-

humiliation-studies/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SN-Sep-18



JUST

Dissemination activity at JUST; Info Day was held at JUST during March 2019.

Dissemination activity at MOVENPIC, Dead Sea; INVENT Final Conference, during September,

2018.

Mutah University

Dissemination during the conference held at Mutah university (14-16 october-2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9hoQ3D7N8&feature=youtu.be

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Cak9fCG1A1Aj4mbQuHVvPYeqr3ahzkE/view?ts=5c8e6411

https://www.sekem.com/en/highlights-of-the-31st-annual-conference-of-human-dignity-and-humiliation-studies/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SN-Sep-18





• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9hoQ3D7N8&feature=youtu.be

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Cak9fCG1A1Aj4mbQuHVvPYeqr3ahzkE/view?ts=5c8e6411


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9hoQ3D7N8&feature=youtu.be

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Cak9fCG1A1Aj4mbQuHVvPYeqr3ahzkE/view?ts=5c8e6411






Dissemination on the project and the MSc in CCSAFS using the following links:

**Social Media and Syndicate page (Attachmment 20) https://www.facebook.com/nationalerasmusplusofficeegypt/photos/a.2216944781922244/2216947981921924/?type=3

https://www.facebook.com/234767403660821/posts/546631155807776/

**4th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture (Attachment 19) https://www.facebook.com/MSc-Programme-in-Climate-Change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food-Security-

234767403660821/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MSc-Programme-in-Climate-Change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food-Security-

234767403660821/posts/?ref=page_internal

**Exhibition during 5th National Erasmus Day, 8th October, 2018.

** Egyptian-Sudanese Universities Forum (Attachment 21)

**TV media (Attachment 22)


See WP8 achievements above

Communication Strategy- Forthcoming

HUSD

HUSD will continue to communicate the project through different channels inclusing television,

newspapers, social media, etc.

JUST

New workshops will be held on the Climate Change.





https://www.facebook.com/nationalerasmusplusofficeegypt/photos/a.2216944781922244/2216947981921924/?type=3

https://www.facebook.com/234767403660821/posts/546631155807776/

https://www.facebook.com/MSc-Programme-in-Climate-Change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food-Security-234767403660821/

https://www.facebook.com/MSc-Programme-in-Climate-Change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food-Security-234767403660821/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MSc-Programme-in-Climate-Change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food-Security-234767403660821/posts/?ref=page_internal

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MSc-Programme-in-Climate-Change-Sustainable-Agriculture-and-Food-Security-234767403660821/posts/?ref=page_internal

Dissemination on project and MSc programme in CCSAFS will be communicated through:

** Info days for under-graduate students

** Dissemination through printed media (Brochures newspaper).

**SCU and Faculty of Agriculture websites

** Dissemination through project's site

** Presentation in local and international conferences

** Dissemination through program web page.


• Info days about CCSAFS project will be held at The University of Jordan with the

participation of other Jo partners.



6th BIANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT [May 15th, 2019 – 14th October, 2019]

NAME OF PARTNERS: Al Azhar University, Aswan University,

Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development (HUSD), Jerash University,

Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Mutah University,

SEKEM Development Foundation (SDF), Suez Canal University, Τhe University of Jordan

Progress Against Deliverables & Milestones

Al-Azhar University


Al-Azhar university (p6) organized the second Regional meeting during the implementation phase

for partners from Egypt and Jordan Universities which was held from 4-7 April 2019 at

Al-Azhar ACC, Nasr city, Cairo. During the meeting, Review of the CCSAFS Pilot Phase Assessment

in Jordan and Egypt were discussed. In addition, CCSAFS MOOCs and LMS activities.

Preparation for the Final Technical and Financial Report were presented during regional meeting

and AlZU financial report was delivered to HU and under reviewing. Currently, 6th Biannual will

be submitted by 9th November, 2019.

ALZU actively participated and represented in CCSAFS final meeting and conference which was

hold at Heraklion, Crete, Greece from 13-16 September 2019.

All CCSAFS partners were attended in addition to Global RCE service center and United nation

university, CCSAFS challenges and outcomes, The Post-CCSAFS: Strengths, Weaknesses,

Opportunities and Threats. Reporting on All CCSAFS Dissemination Activities, Centers of

Excellence& CCSAFS Blended Learning Environment Chairperson were directed by ALZU

representative also ALZU Dissemination Activities, Centers of Excellence& CCSAFS Blended

Learning Environment was presented


ALAZU prepared the 6th biannual report in the appropriate template developed for that purpose


ALZU will organise a conference about Climate Change Challenges during April, 2020 and will

invite all stakeholders involved in CCSAFS preparation phase to discuss their feedback for further

improvement. Also, ALZU shared and responded to all required tasks from organizing group and

will host CCSAFS MSc students during 2nd semester for research visit and some program activity

which will be managed in details with courses instructors. AZHU still on-going for CCSAFS

degree equivalent from Al-Azhar supreme council for accreditation to motivate and encourage

program dissemination and also further improvement.

Aswan University


During the period May – October 2019 communications of the Aswan University team members with

other partners were continued via web site and other communication tools for management and finalize

all tasks of the project. Some locally organized workshops were held in Aswan University in order to

address and discuss the outcomes of CCSAFS project and the challenges that appeared during the

development of the MSc CCSAFS in Aswan University. Organization of some meetings with

stakeholders was carried out to raise awareness of climate change and its relation to sustainable

agriculture and food security particularly in Aswan region.


The current report describes the tasks and activities achieved by Aswan University team during the

period May – October 2019.


(Implementation and pilot assessment for CCSAFS were established by Suez Canal University and two

courses were established by Aswan University team for this program)


ICT student had the master degree in Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable

Development. This student becomes qualified for training some of the stockholders online capacity building

using the ICT Lab

HUSD


Heliopolis university team participated in the closing event of the CCSAFS project that took place in

University of Crete 13-16 September 2019.

Heliopolis University as a local coordinator of the project summarized the managerial issues in the

period of the biannual report which focused on the implementation of the master program in SCU

as Heliopolis university team was involved in teaching one of the courses in the master program

entitled Sustainability Justice for food security and climate change.

Figure 1 Heliopolis University Team Participating in the CCSAFS closing Event

In 2018 new faculty of organic agriculture was inaugurated at Heliopolis University and much info

session about the MSc of CCSAFS was conducted in order to encourage the new Teaching assistants

to join the program. Currently on the TAs from Heliopolis university joined the MSc of the CCSAFS I

Suez Canal University.

In this phase of the project HUSD as a local coordinator of the project was in contact in daily basis

in order to finalize all the financial and technical reports in within the due dates of the projects.

Communication through emails and video conference was taking place among all partners


HUSD as local coordinator of the CCSAFS project completed the CCSAFS 6th biannual report

and collected the 6th biannual reports from the Egyptian partners in the current comprehensive report


HUSD as local coordinator of the CCSAFS project is hosting many training and workshops that took

place in the ICT lap in the CoE for CCSAFS at Heliopolis university premises. These workshops and

training were developed for all the stakeholders of the project starting from the Egyptian partners of

the project to the CCSAFS master student and the candidates for the CCSAFS master program as well.

The hereunder table summarize these events in the last 6 months (from May to October 2019)

Activities carried out at CoE in HUSD

Event Date Trainer No. Of

attendees

Type of

attendees

Info session for

candidates of the

CCSAFS master

students second round

26th June 2019 Mr. Omar El-Dahan

20 Candidates for

CCSAFS

master program

Working on the MSc

proposal

12th September

2019

Mr. Mohammed Anwar

6 CCSAFS

master students

Using LMS in teaching

and learning

22th - 24th

September 2019

Dr. Omar Ramzy

13 HUSD Faculty

of Agriculture

staff

Advance statistical

analysis tools

1st -2nd October

2019

Mr. Omar El-Dahan

10 HUSD Faculty

of Agriculture

staff

Training Workshop

On the ICT and

appropriate technology

13th -14th October

2019

Dr. Omar Ramzy

25

HUSD teaching

staff

Total 74

M8.l Report on sustainability and dissemination plan completed

Many activities were conducted or HUSD team participated in within the last biannual report from May – October 2019 follows:

• 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGROECOLOGY TRANSFORMING AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS IN AFRICA: Reducing Synthetic Pesticides and Fertilizers by Scaling Up Agro-Ecology and Promoting Ecological Organic Trade Nairobi 25-27 June

2019

Links

https://www.unccd.int/news-events/1st-international-conference-agroecology-transforming-agriculture-food-systems-africa

• Disseminating the CCSAFS master program in the employment fair that took place at Heliopolis University 10th October 2019.

Links

https://www.masrawy.com/news/education-universityeducation/details/2019/10/14/1652169/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%87%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3-

https://www.unccd.int/news-events/1st-international-conference-agroecology-transforming-agriculture-food-systems-africa

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• Cooperation between the CoE for CCSAFS at HUSD and faculty of engineering at HUSD for dissemination

• renewable energy in solar pumping as an application of the Water, energy and Food nexus_

• Example from El Wahat farm example

Links

Https://www.elfagr.com/3702134 https://www.dmcnews.org/egypt /8585527%/

https://www.ahlmasrnews.com /888354 http://www.kashqol.com/39668

Jerash University

At this moment the number of registered students involved in CCSAFS Master Programme

had reached 29 by the beginning of the third semester.

The dissemination of the programme is continuous on the social media websites as the

university site, Facebook university site, the Agricultural Engineers Association website a

nd Facebook site and WhatsApp college sites.

Monitoring and Evaluation of the CCSAFS and Teachers was done by direct contact between Prof.

Makrakis through email.

The Centre of Excellence and the ICT lab are receiving the students and researchers of the CCSAFS

Programme. The report and pictures were sent by the previous (4th) biannual report.

We participated in the closing session held at Crete in the period between 13-16 September, 2019.

Below is the agenda of the final meeting and conference.

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

(CCSAFS) Final Meeting & Conference 13-16 September 2019, Capsis Astoria Hotel, Heraklion Crete, Greece

University of Crete, RCE Crete & Global RCE Service Centre, United

Nations University

Day 1 – 13th September, 2019


9:30-9:45 Welcome Session

9:45-10:00 The Cretan History: A Presentation

10:00-10:20

Update from the Global RCE Service Centre

Dr. Philip Vaughter, United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced

Study of Sustainability



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Session 1: Presenting the CCSAFS Challenges and Outcomes

10:20-10:40

An Overview of the CCSAFS Challenges and Outcomes

Prof. Nelly Kostoulas (University of Crete) & Prof. Vassilios Makrakis,

(Frederick University & University of Crete)

10:40-11:00

The MSc CCSAFS in Suez Canal University, Egypt

Prof. Hefny Manal (Suez Canal University)

11:00-11:20

The MSc CCSAFS in Jerash University, Jordan



Session 2: The RCEs Europe Initiatives on Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture &

Food Security

11:40-12:00

RCE Communications

Ms. Nancy Pham, United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study

of Sustainability

12:00-12:20 RCE Crete Actions on Education for Sustainable Development

Prof. Vassilios Makrakis & Prof. Nelly Kostoulas, RCE Crete

12:20-12:40

The Minoic Path: Developing Eco-Cultural-Tourism, Local History &

Education for Sustainability

Mr. Marios Bourgoutzianis, RCE Crete

12:40-13:00

Supporting the Integration of Circular economy in Secondary School

Economics & Business Curricula

Dr. Georgios Vouzaxakis, RCE Crete

13:00-13:15 Potato and Potato: From Soil to Table

Prof. Andrey Dakhin, RCE Nizhny Novgorod

13:15-13:30

Sustainable Development Goals on the Regional Level: Empowering

Rural Communities through Education

Dr. Jana Dlouha & Ms. Iveta Šindelářová, RCE Czechia

13:30-13:45

Intergenerational Program of Ecological Education on Protected Area

Communities

Ms. Ewelina Anna Skoczen, RCE Warsaw Metropolitan

13:45-14:00

Green Go! Infrastructure Supporting Sustainable Development of Rural

Areas

Mr. Bartłomiej Józef Kozek, RCE Warsaw Metropolitan

14:00-14:15

ESD and RRI Approaches: Fostering Territorial Innovative Climate

Action

Ms. Kate Sposab, RCE Belarus

14:15-14:30

Vocational training in Wood as an Element of Sustainable Construction

Methods

Ms. Anna Clara Anthoni, RCE Denmark

14:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-15:45 College Learning for Sustainability Champions

Ms. Rebecca Louise Petford, RCE Scotland

15:45-16:00 Building a Good Food Nation

Ms. Kirsten Leask, RCE Scotland

16:00-16:15

National Centres of Excellence on Implementing ESD into Municipalities

and Regions – Which Concepts are Needed?

Mr. Detlev Lindau-Bank, RCE Oldenburger-Münsterland

16:15-16:30

The contribution of RCEs for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for

Sustainable Development

Dr. Salim Lardjane, RCE Brittany

16:30-16:45 TBC

Dr. Alex Ryan & Ms. Miriam Webb, RCE Severn

17:00-19:00 Exploring the Heraklion Historic City


Session 3: The Post-CCSAFS: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

09:30 – 11:30

The Case of European Program Countries

Prof. Vassilios Makrakis, Frederick University & University of Crete

The Case of Egyptian Partner Countries

Prof. Omar Ramzy, Heliopolis University

The Case of Jordanian Partner Countries

Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh, University of Jordan

Discussion

11:30 -12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 -13:30

Systems Learning and the Climate Emergency: Making the Links with

Sustainable Economy

Dr. Jenneth Parker & Prof. Ros Wade, RCE London

13:30-15:00 Lunch

Session 4: Workshop for European RCEs

15:00 - 17:00

Workshop for European RCEs on Engaging Local and Regional

Governments for ESD

Dr. Philip Vaughter, United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced

Study of Sustainability

17:30 – 19:00- A guided tour to the Archeological Museum of Heraklion


9:30-11:30

Session 5: Student-Assessment (Internal Evaluation) & External

Evaluation for CCSAFS Course Curriculum Chairperson: Dr. Paolo

Carletti and Dr. Luca Fasolato, University of Padova

9:30-10:00 The Case of Jerash University in Jordan, Prof. Ali Al Sharafat & Prof.

Sultan Kamel I’Nam (Jerash University)

9:30-10:00 The Case of Suez Canal University in Egypt, Prof. Nehal, Lotfy (Suez

Canal University)

10:00-10:30

Reporting on external evaluation, Prof. Nancy Kanbar (Lebanese

University)


12:00-14:00 Session 6: CCSAFS Student-Practicum Assessment Results & MOOCs

Chairperson Prof. Ahmed Mohammad Al-Hawamdeh, Jerash University

12:00-12:30

The CCSAFS Student-Practicum in SDF/RCE Cairo, Mr. Mohammed

Anwar (SDF & RCE Cairo)

12:30-13:00 The CCSAFS Student-Practicum in Jordan, Mohammed Anwar,

Mahmooud Fawzy & Moamen Ghanem (SDF & RCE Cairo)

13:00-13:30

A Joint Egyptian-Jordanian Action Plan for Student Practicum,

Mohammed Anwar (Heliopolis University) & Prof. Ahmed Al-

Hawamdeh (Jerash University)

13:30-14:00 Reporting on MOOCs developed courses and their prospects, Mohammed

Anwar & (Heliopolis University)

14:00-15:30 Lunch

15:30-18:00 Session 7: Reporting on All CCSAFS Dissemination Activities, Centers of

Excellence & CCSAFS Blended Learning Environment Chairperson

15:30-16:00 Aswan University dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE Prof.

Wadgi Saber & Prof. Adel Abdelfaheem

16:00-16:15 Al Azhar University dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE, Prof.

Said Desouky

16:15-16:30 Heliopolis University dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE Prof.

Omar Ramzy

16:30-16:45 Suez Canal University dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE Prof.

Manal Hefny, Prof. Nehal Lotfy & Prof. Khalid Elsayed

16:45-17:00 Jerash University dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE Prof.

Ibrahim Tahat

17:00-17:15 Mutah University dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE Prof.

Omer Maitah

17:15-17:30 University of Jordan dissemination activities (2017-2019) and CoE Prof.

Ahmed Al-Salaymeh

17:30-17:45 Jordan University of Science & Technology dissemination activities

(2017-2019) and CoE Prof. Nezar Samarah

17:45-18:00 Assessment


Session 8: Academic, Financial and Administrative Issues Chairperson Prof. Vassilios

Makrakis

09:30 – 11:30 Preparing for the final internal and external audit for financial issues

Discussion

11:30 -12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 14:00 Preparing the final technical report and its quality assurance

Discussion

12:00 -14:00 Preparing the final technical report and its quality assurance

14:00-15:30 Lunch

Session 9: Assessing the CCSAFS Final Meeting and Conference Chairperson Prof. Nelly

Kostoulas

15:30 - 17:00 Round Table Discussion

Closing with final evaluation

20:00- Farewell Dinner at Capsis Astoria Hotel

JUST

M 1.2. Project management and communication plan

Local meeting with Jordanian partners and stakeholders. Just team participated in the closing

event of the CCSAFS project that took place in University of Crete 13-16 September 2019.

M 1.3. Biannual progress reports

Τhe 6th biannual report was prepared in the appropriate template.

M1.4 Final activity report

Jerash University team cooperated with other Jordanian partners to prepare the final financial

and technical reports and submit them to the coordinator.

M3.3 Training sessions and assessment

Training on climate change conducted on JUST

M4.1 CCSAFS programme structure and courses

1st: Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Security.

2nd: Sustainable management of Soil and Water.

3rd: Sustainable and Ethical Livestock Management.

M 5.1 Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS

The plan of Center of Excellence was set, and steering committee was formed. The Center

of Excellence at Jordan University of Science and Technology was equipped by 30 desktop computers.

M5.2 ICT Learning Laboratory for CCSAFS

Around 40-45 students use daily the lab for educational purposes, mainly for the fields of climate change.

M7.1 Internal monitoring/quality assurance plan & reports

JUST team prepared the needed progress reports

M7.2 External monitoring/quality assurance plan & reports

JUST Team participated in CCSAFS monitoring visit and collaborated with other Jordanian

partners and the coordinator to prepare the visit agenda and presentations.

Mutah University

M 1.2. Project management and communication plan

Management meetings for Mutah Team

Local meeting with Jo partner

Networking with many stakeholders to explain the significance of the climate change

M 1.3 Biannual progress reports


M1.4 Final activity report

Preparing Final Technical and Financial reports

MU team worked to prepare the final financial and technical reports and submit them to the coordinator.

MU team cooperated with other JO partners in preparing their final financial reports.

M3.3 Training sessions and assessment

Many training courses conducted at Mutah University

• Training Material

• Introduction to Climate Changes

in Arabic Introduction to Climate Changes مــقدمة في التغـــيـر المــنــاخ •

• Role of Climate on soil

الجنوبيةالتغير المناخي في منطقة االغوار • Climate change in AlGH war (in Arabic).

• Climate Change Global Warring

التغير المناخي في العالم •

• Weather changes

• Sinkholes

• GUIDELINES FOR THE SDGs

M4.1 CCSAFS programme structure and courses

Done in the previous periods

• Social Entrepreneurship in the Organic Food Industry

• Unsaturated Soil in Arid and Semi-Arid Region

• Research Methodology

M4.2 CCSAFS course syllabi and course modules

Mutah team developed three courses

Done in the previous periods

M5.1 Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS

The plan of Center of Excellence was set, and steering committee was formed.

M5.4 Call for applications for the 1st cohort of students

Not yet

M6.1 CCSAFS implementation plan

Not yet

M6.2 Pilot assessment for CCSAFS

Same as in task 5.3 M6.3 Feedback for further improvement

Not yet

M7.1 Internal monitoring/quality assurance plan & reports

MU team prepared the needed progress reports.

MU Team prepared a comprehensive SWOT analysis for CCSAFS in Jordan based

on prepared analysis from all partners (MU, JUST, JU)

M7.2 External monitoring/quality assurance plan & reports

CCSAFS monitoring visit on April 15, 2019

MU Team participated in CCSAFS monitoring visit and prepared an overview presentation for

project implementation. MU coordinated with other JO partners and the coordinator to prepare the

visit agenda, presentations, and print the needed documents.

Revising MU Courses according to external evaluator feedback

All prepared courses by MU team have been revised and modified according to the external

evaluator feedback. M8.2 Project Website & associated social media M8.3 Connection with international networks M8.4 Scientific community dissemination M8.5 Exhibitions

CCSAFS project was disseminated during through various channels and tools. Full dissemination

report was prepared.

The activities were as follow:

Social networks

MU team published many posts regarding CCSAFS implementation and useful information regarding climate change on CCSAFS page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccsafs/

https://www.facebook.com/ccsafs/

SDF


SDF team participated in the CCSAFS closing event and comprehensive report about the practicum

of the CCSAFS master students in SEKEM farm was presented in the meeting.

Many internal meeting was conducted between SDF team and Heliopolis university team as the second

just initiated new faculty of organic agriculture and the staff of the faculty was part of the practicum

side by side with the staff from SDF.


SDF submitted the 6th biannual report in addition to the other reports such as the practicum report for the

CCSAFS master students in Sekem farm that took place in June 2019


One of the major roles of SDF is to host the practicum of the CCSAFS master students within the

courses that are being taught within the master program. The fist practicum took place from the 3rd

to the 4th of July 2019 with the first cohort of the CCSAFS master program.

Participants who joined the practicum

1. Doaa Hamdy Mohammed

2. Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad Abdullah

3. Asmaa Ahmed Shehata

4. Mohammed Mohammed Gebreel

5. Abdallah Helmy (External Participant)

Figure 3 CCSAFS Students are visiting SEKEM Farm July 2019


Disseminating the CCSAFS master program during the Conference of Heliopolis University & The World Future Council On 'Solutions For Scaling Up Agro ecology 12-15 September 2019

Links


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Continuous coordination to execute the planned activities and achieve the final deliverables has been managed by the institutional coordinator through communication with the faculty and university managerial board, CCSAFS partners and

project's team members as well. Official documents necessary to accomplish the purchasing processes and follow up updating the master curriculum based on external reviewer guidelines were followed up. The 6 th managerial meeting was

organized by University of Crete, 13-16 September, Heraklion. A panel discussion was organized during the meeting in which project's coordinator discussed the procedures and guidelines necessary to prepare technical and financial

reports. Critical points that must be followed to prepare the supporting documents correctly and the deadline for reports. Other communication tools for project’s coordination were carried out through e-mails.


The 6th biannual report is prepared using CCSAFS template to state the progress, achievements, and final deliverables produced across all WP’s.


1- The second regional training workshop was organized at AL-Azhar University from 4-9 April, 2019.

2- The workshop gathered all project's consortium. Main theme was presenting pilot-phase

3- assessment for the courses taught during the first semester at SCU and JU. One team member

4- from SCU presented the steps of evaluation process and the evaluation instruments that have been

5- applied. Two presentations on "Dissemination activities" and "The Implementation of the MSc

6- Program in CCSAFS" were provided by the SCU institutional coordinator. Establishment of CoE,

7- installed equipment and activities were provided by another team member.

3- Another training session was organized from 13-14 October, 2019 on "Statistical Analysis Using IBM

4- SPSS V25" for staff members. The training was implemented in the CoE and performed based on

5- the requests from the trainees. The training aimed at building the capacity of staff in using

6- SPSS to analyse the biological experiments, some qualitative and quantitative research methods.


1- Participants in the regional training workshop were selected based on their contribution in the

2- pilot-phase of the master courses. Moreover, the participants get experience on using the

3- assessment tools (questionnaires and concept maps).

3- For the second training workshop, trainees were selected to represent different disciplines and

4- variation in staff categories. Moreover, some of the trainees are involved in teaching CCSAFS

5- master courses. The trainer is a professor specialized in statistics and biological experiments

6- analysis, and SPSS applications in course teaching.

The RTW was evaluated through prepared questionnaires distributed to the participants. 2- The two-days

training workshop was assessed through prepared questionnaire. General concern from the trainees is the

very short period for the training. Therefore, the participants stressed on the necessity to arrange series

of training workshops to cover the most relevant qualitative and quantitative statistical methods and more

advanced statistical analyses such as PCA.

Figure 2 The two-days training workshop on statistical methods in the

CoE for CCSAFS at SCU


Suez Canal

The BLL is already established and purchased equipment is installed in the laboratories and added

to the faculty inventory. Number of users and types of events are provided.

Activities carried out at CoE in SCU

Event Date Trainer No. Of

attendees

Type of

attendees

Teaching CCSAFS

MSc courses

(1st Group-1st Semester)

1st March -30th

June /2019

Four courses are taught by 5 instructors

8 CCSAFS

master

students

Teaching CCSAFS

MSc courses

(1st Group- 2nd

Semester)

9/2019 - till the

end of the

semester

(31/12/2019)

Five courses are being taught

8 CCSAFS

master

students

Teaching CCSAFS

MSc Courses

(2nd Group- 1st

Semester)

19/9/2019 - till the

end of the

semester

(31/12/2019)

Four courses are being taught

7 CCSAFS

master

students

Training Workshop

"Statistical Analysis

Using IBM SPSS V25"

13-14/ 10/2019 Prof. Abdelraheim Ali

11

Staff

members

Total 34

M6.3: Feedback for further improvement completed

Results on pilot-phase assessment of 1st semester courses were prepared by course instructors. The pilot phase assessment was performed at two stages: pre course teaching and final course assessment. The results of assessment are included

in and guidelines and suggestions of how to utilise the feedback sought for the further improvement of the programme.

Course Title Course Code

Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation

Dr. Khalid Abd ElHamed Ibraheim ((Department of

Horticulture)

Dr. Marwa Kamel (Department of Plant Protection)

The course aim to: provide students with comprehensive

knowledge and skills concerning climate change

adaptation and mitigation approaches; identify strategies to

reduce greenhouse gas emission results from agricultural

sector, guide policy makers in the design of policies to

address climate change issues in agriculture.

CSAF801

(8ECTS)

Course Instructors/

Department

Table 1: Taught Courses during the 1st Semester


Regular internal quality control of each WP was practiced to ensure the achievement of project's outcomes on specific dates using various tools provided by project's coordinator. Regarding CCSAFS master courses, after completing the

course syllabi and course modules, they were sent to the external reviewer to monitor and check the quality of developed courses. The reviewed courses were sent back to the course developers to include the suggested comments and

remarks. In the meantime a table on the status of the developed courses was prepared as internal monitoring of master courses. The courses allocated for SCU were approved by the external reviewer after have been updated and corrected

by course developers.The courses are sent to Dr. Michael to prepare them for LMS.

The 6th Progress biannual report is prepared as an internal monitoring tool to check the quality against milestones.


Dissemination plan is updated and presents different dissemination tools/strategies as follows

Τhe University of Jordan

M1.2. Project management and communication plan

Management meetings for UJ Team

Many meetings were conducted to coordinate CCSAFS activities at UJ

M1.3. Biannual progress reports


• M1.4 Final activity report

Preparing Final Technical and Financial reports

UJ team worked to prepare the final financial and technical reports and submit them to the coordinator.

UJ team cooperated with other JO partners in preparing their final financial reports n in

checking their documents.

M 5.1 Centers of Excellence for CCSAFS

The plan of Center of Excellence was set, and steering committee was formed.

• 5.2 ICT Learning Laboratory for CCSAFS

The three blended learning labs are being used by students.

http://www.ccsafs.edc.uoc.gr/wp-content/uploads/D1.2-Project-Management-Communication-Plan.pdf

mM5.3 CCSAFS blended learning & LMS platfor

UJ team are implementing CCSAFS modules and teaching methodologies (Appendix 1) within

the existing programs at UJ during Spring semester (Feb-June, 2019), the courses are:

1. Course in the fall Semester/2018

Course title: Geographic Information Systems (0604330), (Bachelor level)

Number of students: 19 (16 F, 3 M)


Agriculture and Food Security”

2. Course in Spring semester (Sem2/2018-2019):

Course title: GIS and Remote Sensing Applications (0604910), (Doctoral level)

Number of Students: 9 (5 F, 4M)


Agriculture and Food Security” and 50% of the CCSAFS course of Precision Farming

The two courses are based on the use of blended learning through e-learning portal and includes

manuals that were prepared by Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri based on ESRI ArcGIS training material, in

addition to projects carried out by the students.

The GIS course for BSc level includes a training manual of essential flows and a project to map the

campus of the university of Jordan. the final exam of the lab was based on analysis of population

density map for Jordan main districts.

The GIS-RS course for PhD includes 50% GIS material and is based on interactive learning and blended

learning methods, in which assignments are scheduled for each week with a short quiz at each session in the

assignment. The manual which is covered for GIS is (GIS Tutorial book 1). the other 50% part is Remote

sensing (precision farming base) and includes exercises and assignments that are based on manuals that were

prepared by Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri, with focus on applications related to water, climate change and sustainable

agriculture, with the focus on use of different sources of free RS data (MODIS for drought mapping, Landsat

OLI for mapping agricultural areas and changes in forests and Sentinel-2 for mapping irrigated crops

and their water consumption). M6.2 Pilot assessment for CCSAFS

Same as in task 5.3

M 7.1 Internal monitoring/quality assurance plan & reports

UJ team prepared the needed progress reports.

UJ Team prepared a comprehensive SWOT analysis for CCSAFS in Jordan based on prepared analysis

from all partners (UJ, JUST, JU, and MUTAH)

M 7.2. External monitoring/quality assurance plan & report

CCSAFS monitoring visit on April 15, 2019

UJ Team participated in CCSAFS monitoring visit and prepared an overview presentation for project implementation. UJ coordinated with other JO partners and the coordinator to prepare the visit agenda, presentations, and print the

needed documents.

Revising UJ Courses according to external evaluator feedback

All prepared courses by UJ team have been revised and modified according to the external

evaluator feedback

M8.2 Project Website & associated social media

M8.3 Connection with international networks

M8.4 Scientific community dissemination

M8.5 Exhibitions

CCSAFS project was disseminated during through various channels and tools. Full dissemination

report was prepared.

The activities were as follow:

TV interviews

First TV interview, July 15, 2019

An interview with the Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh, HEBA Local Project coordinator in Jordan,

to explain some issues regarding the global warming and pollution. The interview was

published on Al Araby TV.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hdu9nSqtLM&feature=youtu.be

Second TV interview, July 29, 2019

An interview with the Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh, CCSAFS Local Project coordinator in Jordan,

to explain some issues regarding the global warming and pollution. The interview was published on anb TV.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKJP3jj1sI&feature=share

Social networks

University of Jordan team published many posts regarding CCSAFS implementation and

useful information regarding climate change on CCSAFS page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccsafs/

Dissemination activities within Erasmus+ International staff Week – Networking Fair

Date: April 17, 2019

Location: Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II School of International Studies

Audience: Faculty members, international academic experts, and students

Description: The International Affairs Unit at the University of Jordan held Erasmus Plus

Week in April, 2019.

Dissemination activities for CCSAFS were conducted during this event which was held in The

University of Jordan during April 17, 2019.

A brief about the project was presented by Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh during one of the sessions.

A booth with rollup banner was placed in the exhibition area, staff members disseminated the project

for the students and faculty members.

Dissemination activities within a Training workshop

Date: October 9, 2019

Location: Applied Scientific University

Audience: Faculty members, international academic experts, and students

Description: Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh conducted a training workshop on “how to prepare an

Erasmus+ proposals”. Dissemination activities for CCSAFS were conducted during this event.

A brief about the project was presented by Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh during one of the sessions.

A rollup banner was placed in the workshop.

Variations Aswan University

Due to some technical difficulties for visa, Aswan University team did not participate in the CCSAFS

final meeting and conference that was organized in Greece by University of Crete, RCE Crete and

Global RCE Service Centre, United Nations University.


The following deliverable and its milestone still not completed

D3.4 Continuous online capacity building and support

M3.4: Continuous online capacity building and support completed

Al-Azhar University, HUSD, Jerash University, Mutah University, SDF, The University of Jordan

No variations reported

Current Problems & Risks HUSD

The marketing of the CCSAFS master program started very late without any budget which

affected the numbers of students who applied for

the master program; this was for the first and second cohort.

SDF

The future plans for the practicum of the SSCSFS master program might be affected after the end of the

project due to the lack of funding to the accommodation od students who will stay in SEKEM farm

for the training purposes.

The plan to overcome this issue is to correlate these practicums with agricultural research project that

are currently under the umbrella of the Egyptian Biodynamic Agriculture Association (EBDA)


There are two main risks that have been occurred during the project's implementation period:

1- Delay in MSc program validation from Ministry of higher that resulted in performing pilot assessment

2- for one semester only.

2- Low number of students enrols in the program.

*Currently, 15 students are registered in the master program, more actions and support from other EG

partners are needed to get more students. SCU team disseminate about the MSc program using variety

of dissemination actions. So we anticipate more active role from other partners.

* The SCU council provided scholarship for the 1st and 2nd groups enrolled the program to encourage

and attract more participants.

Al-Azhar University, Aswan University, Jerash University, Mutah University, The University of Jordan


Anticipated Problems & Risks Al-Azhar University

The possibility of joining the program for the students from Al-Azhar university is relatively difficulty as

the distance between Cairo and Ismailia is too long for the students and some joined the first cohort then

they withdraw later on because of the transportation issues


The following reasons may hinder the sustainability of the master program:

1- Students' concerns about the entity which will certify the MSc degree in CCSAFS. They look forward

2- to get a certificate recognised by EU. In this regard, if the master certificate has the EU logo,

3- this will empower more participation in the program.

3- The study system of the master program since we received many inquires about the possibility of

4- transferring the program into Online system. So, speed up the LMS and blended learning approach

5- will certainly attract more participants.

4- The possibility of moving students for training or study in other EU universities constitutes a corner stone

5- in program sustainability and will increase the rate of enrol in significantly. So, developing joint degree

6- or mobility project are highly appreciated especially that we have the distinguished Padova University

7- s one of the CCSAFS consortium member.

Aswan University, HSD, Jerash University, Mutah University, SDF, The University of Jordan

No problems or risks reported.

Additional Information of Notable Achievements [Provide additional information including the impact and value of the work achieved, especially at the

institutional and societal level]

HUSD

New faculty of Organic Agriculture was initiated at HUSD and this will strengthen the relationship between

HUSD and the CCSAFS master program even after the end of the project and will maintain the sustainability of

the project impact on the long run.


1- Developing the MSc in CCSAFS is considered a great achievement for Faculty of Agriculture and SCU.

2- The program is the first in Egypt and goes in line with the national strategy and Egypt's Agenda 2030.

3- The program is focuses on very pressing and critical global issues which is food security in the face

4- of climate change.

7- As the program follow the Bologna process will facilitate the transfer of master holders into EU universities

8- for studying PhD degree.

4- The project has impacts on institutionalization of SCU that should increase the cooperation with other

5- HEI in EU universities.

9- Building such consortium that comprising academia and NGO from Jordan, Egypt and Europe will encourage

10- future cooperation either at education or research levels.

6- The strategy of curriculum development that was followed to develop CCSAFS courses is an effective and

7- excellent when to be applied for preparing other courses. It is worth to mention that, the template we \

8- have used to prepare the courses will be utilized to prepare a new undergraduate program that

9- will be coordinated by Agronomy Department.

Al-Azhar University, Aswan University, Jerash University, Mutah University SDF, The University of Jordan

No information of notable achievements provided


Al-Azhar University

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Communication Strategy- Achievements HUSD

• The CCSAFS master program will be presented to the future alumni of the faculty of Organic Agriculture at Heliopolis University as promising master program for those who want to continue in the postgraduate studies

• The research strategy at Heliopolis university capitalized on the three main themes of the CCSAFS project which is Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture and this will strengthen the collaboration between the

CCSAFS partners for further research projects in the future

SDF From 12th to 15th December 2019 SEKEM and will host the annual forum for social initiative forum. Planned workshop for dissemination of the program to different categories of audience who are interested in Education SEKEM

Farm & Heliopolis University.

Links

https://www.sekem.com/en/unfolding-individual-potential-for-the-future-huge-international-event-at-sekem/

https://www.sif-egypt.org/

JUST

Dissemination activity at JUST Info Day

Mutah University




Communication Strategy- Forthcoming Mutah University

• Info days about CCSAFS project will be held at The MU with the participation of other Jo partners.


• Press releases about project activities


• Info days about CCSAFS project will be held at The University of Jordan with the participation of other Jo partners.


https://www.sif-egypt.org/

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