Director of the National Tempus Office – Jordan worked closely with relevant stakeholders (Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, higher education institutions, and HERE’s) to develop HERE’s work plan that includes number of training seminars. The plan was implemented by delivering number of seminars in different places in Jordan, covering its geographic areas. Each seminar included – on the average – three presentations, followed by discussions initiated by the participants. These presentations were selected from the following, based upon the desire of participating staff from the host institution:

• Bologna Process and the latest developments,

• Jordanian-European cooperation: Tempus, Erasmus-Mundus and other EC funded programs

• Learning outcomes as means for enhancing quality of higher education,

• Mobility,

• The European Credit and Transfer System (ECTS),

• Life Long Learning

Details of these seminars are given in the following table:

SN	Institution	Location	Date of seminar	Notes
1	Princess Sumaya University for Technology	Amman	25th February 2009	Attended by about 240 persons from all universities in Jordan and some other relevant organizations.
2	Al-Hussein bin Talal University	Ma'an	25th March 2009	Attended by more than 50 staff members included most deans, chair persons, and faculty members from Al-Hussein University, in addition to staff from Mutah and Al-Tafila Technical universities.
3	Al-al-Bayt University	Mafraq	9th April 2009	Attended by more than 25 staff members included most deans and chair persons at Al-al-Bayt University.
4	Yarmouk University	Irbid	16th April 2009	Attended by more than 50 staff members included most deans and chair persons at Yarmouk University , Jordan University of Science & technology, Irbid National University, and Jadara University.
5	German-Jordanian University	Amman	28th May 2009	Attended by about 40 staff members including the President, Vice-Presidents, and most Deans and Chair persons at the German-Jordanian University.
6	Mutah University	Karak	11th April 2010	Attended by about 50 staff members including the Vice-President, Deans and Chair persons at the University.
7	Hashemite University	Zarka	18th April 2010	Attended by about 40 staff members including the Vice-Presidents, and most Deans and Chair persons at the University.
8	Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)	Irbid	22nd April 2010	Attended by about 50 staff members including the Vice-Presidents, Deans and Chair persons at JUST.
9	Petra University	Amman	2nd June 2010	Attended by about 80 staff members including the President, Vice-Presidents, and most Deans and Chair persons at the German-Jordanian University.

HERE’s also participated in number of other activities inside and outside Jordan. Examples of the important activities are:

Event	Date	Location	Purpose / Major Outcome	Participants
Training seminar	23rd March 2009	German-Jordanian University	Seminar was presented by Professor Ziad Al-Saad on the comparison between ECTS system and American Credit System.	About 35 faculty members and students
Training seminar	4th May 2009	German-Jordanian University	A seminar was presented by Professor Ziad Al-Saad on learning outcomes as the basic concept of ECTS system	About 40 faculty members and students from GJU
Training seminar	2nd June 2009	Yarmouk University	The impact of Bologna process on Higher Education Reform in Jordan was presented by Professor Ziad Al-Saad	About 70 faculty members
International Meeting	23rd October 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Presentation on “A Critique of the Bologna Process in relation to Quality of Higher Education” made by Professor Ahmad Majdoubeh during a conference organized by the Hollings Center on Quality of Higher Education in the Arab World.	About 40 participants (university presidents, deans, and QA officers) from Arab countries, USA, and Asia.
Conference	28th October 2009	Beirut, Lebanon	Presentation on “The Bologna Process: An Arab Perspective” made by Professor Ahmad Majdoubeh during a two-day gathering of the Erasmus-Mundus Action II, Lot 4 led by Lund University	About 30 participants who are members of the Erasmus-Mundus Action II Consortium

Finally, the HEREs participated in several training seminars in Europe. It is to be noted that the Jordanian HEREs had quite active participation in these seminars. To be more specific, they made two presentations about HEREs activities in Jordan, and in particular training provided to academic staff and given in universities covering the whole area of Jordan. Furthermore, they developed and presented one poster on the subject of Recognition. The poster was selected by the participants as the most inspiring poster from 11 posters presented in Tallinn seminar in June 2010. The selection was made through voting of participants, where the poster from Jordan was awarded the first prize!