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We Innovate Together’ programme awards youth solutions to local social issues

The "We Innovate Together" Youth Social Innovation Challenge, implemented by Expertise France with the support of IBTECAR Consulting, held an awards ceremony on Thursday. The challenge is part of the EU funded "Support to Social Protection in Jordan" Programme. The Social Innovation Challenge brought together young people aged between 18 and 25 from Amman, Karak and Jerash for a journey that lasted over 10 months, according to a statement from the organizers. Out of the 500 applicants, 110 were chosen to form teams in the local...

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Social Innovation and the Role of Public Sector Discussion Panel

IBTECAR Consulting, in cooperation with Oxfam Jordan, organized Thursday the third networking session aimed at developing and empowering the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Jordan. Government institutions and ministries participated in the third dialogue session, focusing on government services and their contribution to supporting social institutions programs, raising awareness among the actors in the ecosystem, and facilitating networking among them. Representatives from the Ministries of Youth, Industry and Commerce, Entrepreneurship and Digital Economy, Finance, in addition to the Income Tax Department, the Central Bank, and the Jordan Enterprise...

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EU-funded Social Innovation Challenge seeks to inspire Jordanian youth

Over 500 applicants aged between 18 and 25 who want to make a change and create an impact in their community responded to the EU-funded Social Innovation Challenge, run by Expertise France and IBTECAR Consulting in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development. The Social Innovation Challenge was launched by Expertise France and IBTECAR Consulting as part of the Civil Society Organisations Component of the EU funded “Support to Social Protection in Jordan” Programme in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development. In the first phase of...

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IBTECAR and Expertise France Launch Social Innovation Challenge in Jordan

IBTECAR Consulting and Expertise France in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development have launched a Social Innovation Challenge 2022 as part of the Civil Society Organization's Component of the Support to Social Protection in Jordan Programmed funded by the European Union. The youth-centered project aims to promote social innovation and build a sustainable community by employing the concept of social innovation which is concerned with exploring social challenges through joint cooperation between community members and institutions, and then overcoming them using innovative, sustainable solutions, and creating...

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Energy Digitalization Hackathon

IBTECAR consulting and German Jordanian university in the partnership with several national and international universities and institutions have organized the Energy Digitalization Hackathon 2020 as a part of Global entrepreneurship week. The event was sponsored by Orange Jordan and the Peer to Peer Energy sharing as well as Saxeed.jet Project and the DAAD. The hackathon aimed to find solutions that employ digital transformation concepts for energy sector challenges in Jordan and to bridge the gap between the research outcomes and...

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Social Innovation – Ministry of Social Development

IBTECAR has been granted a consultation assignment with the ‘social innovation and research Challenge Fund’. The project aims to foster the implementation towards social innovation. IBTECAR will be responsible in developing and implementing pilot activities. For that it conducted various research of stakeholders and held several meetings with social cohesion working groups. The meetings included brainstorming about the social innovation challenges that facing youth and creative people in the area, and accordingly, IBTECAR developed a proposal and recommendations to hold...

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SESO Capacity Building Project

IBTECAR is working as consulting & training provider for preparing, conducting the online training, for Social Enterprise support organizations specially in social business entrepreneurship fields. Desk research and interviews were conducted to identify the needed skills for the organizations followed by clustering the training needs and matched with the modules. Accordingly, IBTECAR submitted recommendations and proposals to hold a capacity building program that covers the SESOs needs and increasing their effectiveness, developing in their business, and help them to support...

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Support to Social Entrepreneurship Structures Project

IBTECAR worked as a researcher for social entrepreneurship ecosystem, to identify support structures for social entrepreneurship and extend their services. IBTECAR conducted various interviews and desk research to identify the skills and capacity building needs of the organizations to enable them support refugees and migrants in Jordan. During the work on this project, IBTECAR identified activities to be conducted based on data analysis for the results of the research that they conducted, which helped further in defining the role, concept...

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Collaboration with IBM

Because IBTECAR cares about digital transformation and increasing the digital skills for the youth and entrepreneurs, IBTECAR Cooperated with IBM to provide the youth and entrepreneurs with the necessary skills for becoming a digital transformation expert through several extraordinary useful courses.

29/10/2020NewsRead more...

Jordan Industry 4.0 & Digitalization Innovation Centre (InJo4.0)

IBTECAR is key partner in EU funded project to setup and run Industry 4.0 & Digitalization centre of excellence to support the SMEs. IBTECAR has developed the centre structure including management, financial & operational plan as well as some grants to the SMEs. On the other hand, IBTECAR is the lead partners in the capacity building activities in the industry 4.0 and digitalization targeting SMEs, and youth. The work is based on studying the needs of the ICT/ITO/BPO sector through...

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