Activities
In May 2008,
Optimiza sponsored the 1st National Technology Parade at the
University of Jordan, held on the 13th and 14th of
May on campus.
This was done to support the Faculty of Engineering/Computer Engineering
Department students. Through this
collaboration, Optimiza aimed at strengthening its ties with a well-established
educational institution, and recognize and offer opportunities to exceptional
graduates.
Optimiza's participation in this special event included supporting a graduation
project on "Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)", whereby it provided
students from both the
University of Jordan
and Jordan University of Science and Technology with two workstations and
allocated a coordinator for this project with high-level support.
During the parade, Optimiza interacted with students, both graduates and
undergraduates on its booth. The objective was to offer these students advice to
enhance their future plans, and collect CVs from graduates wishing to join its
team. Also, Optimiza led a
session, where it presented its overall solutions and services and some of its
success stories. Moreover, a special lecture was presented to the students on
Optimiza's Oracle Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
On a similar note, Optimiza has taken part in three other job fairs in May 2008.
These included: The American University of Beirut’s job fair held on May 9th,
Princess Sumaya University for Technology’s job fair, and Jordan University of
Science and Technology’s job fair held on the 18th and 19th
of May.
Partnerships
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Madrasati Initiative
Madrasati, brings together public, private and non-profit partners in an
exciting, new initiative to renovate public schools in urgent need of repair.
Led by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Madrasati will enrich learning
environments, and enhance opportunities for children in 500 schools across
Jordan. In phase I of the initiative, 100
schools in central Jordan (Amman
and Zarqa) will be assisted.
The
"Madrasati"
initiative is an innovative venture
to enable public schools in Jordan to provide a better learning environment for
their students by mobilizing key partners to address the urgent infrastructure
repairs, student friendliness and safety of the school, and to provide schools
with access to quality learning and teaching tools.
Through Madrasati, corporations can play an important role in support of these
public schools in Jordan.
As institutions with expertise in all aspects of management, corporations can
make a difference by sharing their experience, resources and time.
This
is not only an opportunity to show goodwill.
Most corporations will also find it an opportunity to learn from being part of
addressing new challenges and building stronger ties between their employees and
the communities they operate in.
Within this context, Optimiza has officially adopted “Al-Yarmook
School for boys”, located in Sweileh.
Our support for the school will be for a minimum of five years, during which
Optimiza will be contributing financially and in-kind to the:
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Renovation and infrastructure maintenance according to an assessment that was
done for the school’s physical structure
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Support in the form of needed development, supplement programs, training, and
special activities to be conducted with and for the students
For more information about Madrastai initiative, please visit
www.madrasati.jo
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Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship – Jordan /
Optimiza has become the silver sponsor and a
main supporter of the activities of
Queen Rania
Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE). This is in
affirmation of its belief in entrepreneurship and innovation in business, and
QRCE’s vision to target university students, researchers, inventors and
entrepreneurs in particular, to build their capacities and skills and develop IT
entrepreneurship in Jordan.
QRCE oversees the implementation of diverse activities, including several local
and international programs, such as the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship
Competition (QRNEC), Technology Commercialization Program, Connect Jordan and
the Entrepreneurship Society “DART”.
Within this context, Optimiza supports QRCE’s programs concerned with promoting
the concept of comprehensive entrepreneurship, most notably capacity building
activities, including the University Outreach Program that aims at creating
links with Jordanian universities in order to support creative thinking, and
urge students to take part in the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship
Competition. This is In addition to
QRCE’s year-round business planning activities with the participation of
graduates and undergraduates, and two workshops on technology commercialization
program targeting professionals in private and public sectors.
Within the overall sponsorship umbrella,
Optimiza Academy,
the training and human resources development arm
of Optimiza, will be supporting the activities of QRCE. The move stems
from Optimiza
Academy policy which matches QRCE’s vision of upgrading the
skills and capabilities of university students, researchers, inventors and
entrepreneurs in particular while seeking to develop IT entrepreneurship in
Jordan.
The
contribution of Optimiza Academy will be in the form of quality support to the
Centre through the Business Edge training program for small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) tailored to upgrade their management skills through the use
of advanced professional methods. The program involves upgrading all aspects
relating to accounting, human resources, marketing and sales in addition to
developing leadership skills.
For more information about QRCE, please visit
www.qrce.org