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Third day, 28.09.2022, of University of Hertfordshire (UH) meeting

On the morning session of the third day 28.09.2022 of University of Hertfordshire (UH) meeting, Dr. Christian Weber from the University of Siegen (coordinating partner) concluded work on developed courses with the project. In the same session, Dr. Hamidreza Ahmadian from the University of Siegen (coordinating partner), presented about preparation for writing the final report of the project and its contents. He also discussed needed actions to finalize submission of the report on time by end of this year. In the afternoon session, the host university members, University of Hertfordshire, Dr Martina Doolan and Dr. Raimund Kirner distributed certificates of participation the participants.
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Meeting at University of Hertfordshire​ Hatfield, UK from 26-29September 2022

A face-to-face meeting is being held at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) in Hatfield, UK from 26th September 2022 to 29th September 2022. The conference is focusing on sustainability and partially training as well. The meeting started with a welcome speech from Professor Rodney Day the Dean, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. The conference takes place with members from all partners participating either in the meeting. The MS@CPS consortium acknowledges the UH for hosting the meeting at its campus and appreciates the efforts done by the UH team: Dr. Raimund Kirner and Dr. Martina Doolan to have this meeting conducted face to face despite the difficulty due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Then an introduction lecture about UH and its facilities is given by Dr. Martina Doolan and Raimund Kirner.
In the first morning session, Dr. Hamid Hamidreza Ahmadian from the university of Siegen, the project leader, presented the meeting agenda, project overview, and status of the Project. In the second morning session, Dr. Christian Weber from the University of Siegen presented the status of WP2: MS@CPS curricula. He presented the status of the deliverables. In the first afternoon session, Dr. Mohamed Saleh from KTH presented about WP3: Industrial Partnership and the status of the deliverables in this WP, open points, and missing contributions. In the second afternoon session, Dr. Ala’ Khalifeh from GJU presented about WP4: WP4: Quality Management. He presented the status of the deliverables and future work in this WP.
At the end of the afternoon sessions, Dr. Hamid Hamidreza Ahmadian from the university of Siegen, the project leader, presented a conclusion and a plan for the next days (breakout sessions). He also moderated a panel discussion about best practices for ensuring the success of the project outcomes mainly regarding the involvement of industry in the master’s program.
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A training workshop in TTU

As one of the MS@CPS activities, a training workshop was held at TTU to transfer the gained experience and knowledge from the training at KTH, Sweden. The dean of the Information Technology
and Communications Faculty introduced the importance and the added value of the MS@CPS project to the students and academic staff at TTU. Dr. Ashraf Alkresha led the training in collaboration with
Dr. Saba Alkaseasbeh and Mr. Mustafa Dmour. Dr. Alkresha presented the best practices and expertise at KTH in the field of enhancing higher education in Sweden. Successful examples were provided, which reflect the high level of education in KTH in order to employ them in TTU, especially in the Information Technology and Communications Faculty. The training content focuses on investing these practices in both teaching and research activities in the master’s program of CPS at TTU. A number of faculty members from TTU participated in this Workshop. The participants highlighted the opportunities and directions for applying these practices.
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A training workshop in PTC

Palestine Technical College (PTC) held a joint training workshop with Al-Aqsa University (AAU) at the Palestine Technical college campus on 31.7.2022 to transfer the training experience gained from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology training held recently in Stockholm. The training workshop entitled “Enhancing Higher Education by Using Digital Technologies.” was held to train the academic staff at PTC and AAU.
Dr. Ezzaldeen Edwan, PTC project manager welcomed the audience and opened the event. Dr. Hazem ElBaz from AAU gave two training sessions entitled “Teaching Trick – How to improve student learning without spending more time teaching, and “Support for Research Funding”. Dr. Iyad Ayoub from PTC gave another two training sessions entitled “Rethinking Engineering Education – The COIO Approach”, and “Some Perspectives on Sustainability, Engineering, and Engineering Education”.
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A training workshop in TTU

A training workshop to empower the academic women in TTU
Thursday – 09/06/2022
Tafila Technical University
The training workshop was held at TTU to train and encourage the academic women at TTU to participate and apply for international projects in the presence of the president Prof. Omer Maaitah,
a number of women faculty members from the university, and the SheLeads Academies Network at Yarmouk University. Dr. Ayat Nashwan led the training to provide the participants with extensive
expertise in applying, managing and leading international-funded projects. As a part of the training, Dr. Khalid Alemerien presented an introduction to the Master’s Project in Cyber-Physical Systems
MS@CPC, one of the Erasmus Plus projects funded by the European Union, Dr. Alemerien highlighted the importance of the project, the partners from partner and European countries, the
role of women in the project as students, academic staff, and administrators, and the importance of support for the development of high-quality academic programs at the regional level.
The link on the TTU website:
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On the fifth day 3.06.2022 (the last day) of the KTH management meeting, Dr. Christian Weber from the University of Siegen chaired the session for a discussion on the remaining deliverables. He also wrapped up the meeting and the next steps to be done. At the end of the last day, Dr. Mohammad Saleh from the KTH (the host) and Dr. Christian Weber, distributed certificates of participation in the meeting.

 
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On the morning sessions of the fourth day, 2.6.2022, of the KTH management meeting, Dr. Hamidreza Ahmadian from the University of Siegen and Dr. Ala’ Khalifa from GJU, presented about WP4 with a focus on the selection of external evaluators. In the same session, Dr. Hamidreza Ahmadian and Dr. Mohammed Saleh from KTH presented the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that to be signed among consortium partners by each rector of HE institutes at the partner countries to foster cooperation in running the master program of Cyber-Physical Systems. The participants at the KTH meeting approved the terms of the MoU. Dr. Christian Weber from the University of Siegen presented the required contributions from each partner on finalizing the deliverable D2.2 “Course Material”. The session concluded with stressing about finishing missing parts in the deliverable to reach the final form.

 
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On the afternoon session of the fourth day 2.06.2022 of the KTH management meeting, Dr. Christian Weber from the University of Siegen concluded work on the deliverable D2.7 “Lab Requirements Report”.
In the same session, Dr. Mohammed Saleh from the KTH presented more details about the study cases. Lastly, Rashid Jayousi from Al-Quds University presented a draft of the survey to be distributed to the advisory industrial board to get their feedback on program implementation.

 
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On the morning session of the third day 1.06.2022 of the KTH management meeting, Dr. Hamidreza Ahmadian from the University of Siegen (coordinating partner), presented about preparation for writing the final report of the project. He also discussed needed actions to finalize the submission of the report on time by end of this year. In the same session, Dr. Ezzaldeen Edwan from Palestine Technical College presented the final version of the sustainability plan and the consortium conducted a group revision for the plan, and amendments from partners were suggested to improve the plan.

 
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On the afternoon session of the third day 1.06.2022 of the KTH management meeting, Prof. Kristina Nyström from the department of industrial economy and management at KTH gave a lecture entitled “Venture creation project as road map innovation topics – Technology-based Entrepreneurship”.