Students of the Interior Architecture program in AAUP that is offered as collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona – Italy, organized a field trip to Kofor Aqab old town – Jerusalem, as this trip contributes in enhancing the practical side of their specialization and it is part of the students’ project in the Design Elements course.
Eng. Rinad Shqairat, who teaches the “Design Elements and Forming” course at AAUP said that: “this visit to the old town aims to enhance the awareness of students of the main elements for forming through the architecture space, by watching and analyzing the Palestinian way of traditional buildings and traditional architecture.” She indicated that she invited Eng. Yara Bamia from Rawaq Institution, an institution works on reviving the old towns in Palestine, and Eng.
Some students from the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences in AAUP went in a field trip to some of the institutions and companies in Hebron City accompanied by Dr. Sharif Abu Karsh and Dr. Mohammad Abu Sharbeh.
This trip comes as part of the strategic plan that the faculty in AAUP depends aiming to enhance the relation between AAUP and the labor market, and to introduce students to the main Palestinian companies and their products and services.
AAUP sent two of its students from the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences (Nor AlDeen Abu Hasan and Husam Frehat) to Powiślańska University in Poland to study for the fall semester of the academic year 2019/2020. This chance was given to students through the student academic mobility that is provided by Erasmus Plus program.
This opportunity of student mobility will enable students to learn more about other cultures during their time in Poland for four months. They will get to know other students of different backgrounds and cultures and this will strengthen their personalities and teach them new skills.
This mobility through Erasmus Plus was the first in AAUP, and it is just the beginning of other academic, staff and student mobility in the future.