The highlight of this meeting was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding and an agreement on student exchange between OTH Regensburg and Jadara University. Jadara University is a private university in Irbid, Jordan, which was founded in 2005. It offers a wide range of Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes as well as doctoral opportunities in various disciplines. The university emphasises practice-oriented teaching and interdisciplinary research and maintains numerous international collaborations.
The planned collaboration focuses in particular on the exchange of Master's students for final theses and doctoral students in the field of microsystems technology. The Jadara University network also opens up new opportunities for cooperation in the field of historical building research.
The contact between the two universities goes back to the research cooperation between Prof Dr Schreiner and Prof Dr Mousa. They are working together on a project to develop innovative field emitter arrays (FEA). The exchange of a PhD candidate from Jadara University to OTH Regensburg is already planned for 2025. Another focus of the meeting was a technical exchange centred on the topic of ‘High-Current Silicon Field-Emission Electron Sources’. Philipp Buchner, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Natural and Cultural Sciences, gave a presentation on this topic, which was met with great interest by the participants.
In addition to the official programme items, the delegation from Jordan had the opportunity to take part in a guided tour of Regensburg. They were accompanied by guest lecturers from Canada and Malaysia, who were also visiting OTH Regensburg at the time.
