Staff mobility - Articles and and experiences
Winter School in Palestine - WHISHEPP IV
On Sunday, November 10, 2019, An-Najah National University's Physics Department in cooperation with the University of Paris Sud 11 and the Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL) launched the activities of the Fourth Winter School of High Energy Physics in Palestine (WISHEPPIV) for the fourth time on a row at the Prince Turki Bin Abdel Aziz Theatre in the New Campus. WISHEPPIV is sponsored by the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem and CERN.
The event was attended by Prof. Maher Natsheh, President of An-Najah, Dr. Kherieh Rassas, An-Najah’s Vice President for International Development and External Affairs; Eng. Adnan Samara, Chairman of the Higher Council for Innovation & Excellence; Dr. Ehab Kobbaj, Representative of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research; Prof. Achille Stocchi, Head of LAL and Co-Chair of WISHEPP; Dr. Ahmed Bassalat, Chair of WISHEPP and staff member at An-Najah's Physics Department and Dr. Maen Ishtaiwi, Head of the Physics Department as well as a number of An-Najah's academic and administrative staff and students and other prominent figures.
An-Najah National University and Université Paris-Sud are collaborating since many years, now even thanks to the ICM Erasmus program.
Chantal Escudie, Adbenour Lounis, Guillaume Philippon, Florent Robinet, David Rousseau, Marie-Hélène Schune and Achille Stocchi, benefited from an Erasmus Teaching grant in order to attend and speak at the Whisshepp fourth edition in Palestine.
The Ecole nationale Polytechnique meets Erasmus+ Algeria
New exchange between the Ecole National Polytechnique d'Alger and Paris-Sud University, for a teaching mobility, the opportunity to give courses in Adequacy Algorithms Architecture to 5th year students in electronic engineering.
This mobility also made it possible to meet the Director of the Erasmus+ Algeria office, Malika Kebri, who presented the different Erasmus+ funding mechanisms and thus make known the various possibilities available to students and institutions. The event was broadcasted live on Facebook. (Event poster here)
The new administrative and pedagogical team were present at this event, which allowed constructive and promising exchanges for future collaboration.
Franco-Palestinian meeting at Paris-Sud University
In June 2019, a delegation of professors and administrative staff were welcomed at the Faculty of Science as part of the collaboration between An-Najah National University and Université Paris-Sud, sealed by the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme since 2018.
We had the pleasure of meeting Professor Mean Ishtaiwi, Dean of the Faculty of Science at An-Najah University, Ahmed Bassalat, Hadil Abualrob, Muna Ishtaiwi, Thuraya Tibi, Mohammad Dwaekat members of the Faculty of Physics, as well as Nisreen Hamadneh member of the Faculty of Engineering.
Also present at an outdoor meal with Palestinian flavours organized by Palestinian students themselves, inviting all LAL students and teacher-researchers involved in the collaboration between the two institutions.
Teaching at Battambang University - Cambodia
A group of professors from the Université Paris-Sud and retired professors from the SEFCA association (formerly AFSFC) went to teach students at the University of Battambang in Cambodia in May 2019.
Buntha Ea Kim, an engineer and professor at the Optics Institute, Pierre Le Barny, former professor at IUT Orsay, Bernard Legendre, professor emeritus at Université Paris-Sud, Jean-Christophe Marvaud, lecturer at the Pharmacy Faculty, Siden Top and Michel Pédoussaut, former director of IUT d'Orsay, all participated in this mission to teach students various concepts including: molecular spectrometry, thermochemistry, chromatography, food microbiochemistry, fluid mechanics and atomic absorption spectroscopy.
All this with the aim of strengthening quality control and food safety within the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Information.
This mission was also the opportunity to organise a competition for the selection of the 10 students who won the Erasmus+ scholarships awarded by Paris-Sud at the beginning of the academic year in September 2019.
Administrative mobility in Cambodia
In May 2019, Anne-Lise Braesch was received at the University of Battambang by the administrative team, including the Rector, Her Excellency Emtotim Sieng, and by the pedagogical team of the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Processing in order to share the practices of the two institutions in terms of project management. The Cambodian institution is itself a member of the consortium of two capacity building projects funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
Event at Ecole Nationale Polytechnique d'Alger: Virtual flight live
Samir Bouaziz, Teacher at Polytech Paris-Sud, was received from 06 to 14 April 2019 in the electronics department of Ecole Nationale Polytechnique d'Alger as part of an Erasmus+ teaching mobility.
The objective was to provide courses and practical work for undergraduate students at the Ecole Polytechnique d'Alger as part of the cooperation between the two "polytechnique" institutes.
Through a programme that brought together various notions of electronics such as digital electronics systems, COTS and multiplexed buses, Mr. Bouaziz was able to pass on his knowledge and know-how to students while participating in the coordination of upcoming student and teacher exchanges during an event recreating live real conditions of a virtual flight.