AMMAN — Orange Jordan and the
Vocational Training Corporation (VTC) agreed to launch Orange FabLab, a coding academy and
an accelerator at a vocational training center in Salt, the firm said in a
statement.
اضافة اعلان
Ahmed Al-Gharaibeh, VTC director-general, and
Orange’s Deputy CEO/CFO Raslan Al-Deiranieh signed an agreement to that effect
on Sunday, in the presence of Minister of Labor Nayef Al-Stetieh.
The statement said the agreement launches the
programs in Salt, in the Balqa governorate.
The programs are part of “Innovation Space”, a
three-year project co-funded by the
EU’s “Innovation for Enterprise Growth and
Jobs” program aiming to promote digital empowerment and innovation culture on a
wider scale.
Under the agreement, the programs in Balqa will
include an
Orange FabLab to “train the applicants on digital fabrication
skills, tools, and machinery to enable joiners to create prototypes, the coding
academy to train students for seven months on programming languages with the
aim of ‘Training for Employment’, in addition to an accelerator supporting startups
to enhance their growth and expansion,” the statement noted.
Steitieh affirmed
that this agreement goes into effect after several meetings and workshops held
during the last five months with Orange and one of the global Orange group’s
subsidiaries. It is in response to the directives of His Majesty King Abdullah
and HRH Crown Prince Hussein, the Regent, and within the government’s
directions to modernize and update the vocational training ecosystem, to create
a sustainable impact on the lives of Jordanians.
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