Projects

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 3rd IoT Hackathon with The Tank by Umniah

IBTECAR and The Tank by Umniah organized the 3rd IoT Hackathon, where 12 teams participated to develop and present their new ideas in the IoT field. This Hackathon took place at The Tank by Umniah on 30-11 and 1-12- 2018 with mentors who shared their experience in both technical and business field, and supported the teams to realize the prototype and business ideas. The hackathon started on Friday 30-11-2018 with some team building activities and introduction to the IoT process. the participants...

IoT Innovation Program

IBTECAR and Umniah are partnering to develop first of its kind Internet of Things (IoT) innovation program, which aims to enable entrepreneurs and innovators to move their creative Hi-Tech ideas in the IoT field into realizable products. It helps them to gain technical skills to develop the proof of concept (prototypes) of their products besides gaining innovation and business skills to test and validate the concepts with the potential customers. Program Activities The program will provide the following activities: General public talks...

Innovation and Creativity stimulation in organizations

"Innovation and Creativity stimulation in organizations" A workshop delivered at 3rd Symposium with the theme "Professional Training in Developing Human Capital", 17-18 September 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia organized by King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital   Workshop abstract Siemens, Toyota, IKEA, Google, Apple, TATA, P&G and Skype are some of the most successful companies in the world; nevertheless they are among the top innovative companies.  Those companies managed to reach to this stage not only through investment but also through stimulating systematically creativity and innovation in...

National Policy & Strategy STI of Jordan

Review and assessment of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policies and Strategies of Jordan (2013-2017) UNESCO Project to support the Higher Council for Science and Technology of Jordan to review the national STI policies. The project aimed to develop: Strategy review and assessment framework based on international best practices Review of the national Science, Technology and Innovation strategy based on the framework Support the development of national innovation programs Conduct stakeholders assessment workshop. Results Assessment framework developed based on World Bank, OECD and UNCTAD for STI policies Public...

Applied Scientific Research Fund

Applied Scientific Research Fund (ASRF) is  is a non-government; non-profit organization created and has the initial funding by Samih Darwazah, founder of Hikma Pharmaceuticals to promote the development of applied science and engineering ideas. ASRF is the first research funding organization initiated from the private sector in Jordan as non-profit company acting on commercial basis while 100% of the profit is invested back in the fund to support the creation of the innovation ecosystem in Jordan and the Middle East. ASRF is applying...

National ICT Strategy of Jordan

National ICT Strategy of Jordan is an EU funded project through FWC 2012. It was hosted by the ministry of ICT in Jordan. Jamil as a key expert was responsible for - Analysis of ICT sector (market, regulations, stakeholders, strategies, SWOT) - Development of National Strategy of ICT - Strategy benchmarking - Development of strategic goals and vision - Design of action and master plan for strategy implementation including KPIs The final draft strategy document can be downloaded from the ministry of ICT website [gview file="http://www.moict.gov.jo/Portals/0/PDF/NewFolder/ADS/Tender2/Final%20Draft%20Jordan%20NIS%20June%202013.pdf"] The draft strategy document can be downloaded from...