Intermediate Report

DEADLINE

When 70% of the 1st pre-financing has been disbursed but not later than:  

- 1 December 2014 for 2 year projects

- 1 June 2015 for 3 year projects

One original (with original signatures) and one copy are to be sent by the deadline by  registered mail (date as per postmark) to:

Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

Erasmus+ : Higher Education - International Capacity Building (Unit A4)

Mr Klaus Haupt

Head of Unit

BOUR 02/17

1, Avenue du Bourget

BE-1049 Brussels

Please also send the electronic version to eacea-tempus-project-management@ec.europa.euwhen submitting the paper version of the report.

Name of the co-ordinator (institution): The University of Jordan

Name of the contact person :Ali Kamil Saed

Position: Professor

Place: Amman/Jordan

Date: 30/05/2015

Signature: ......................................................

Stamp of the co-ordinator (institution):

Name of the legal representative:"Moh'd Walid" Batsh

Position: Vice president of the University of Jordan

Place: Amman/Jordan

Date: 30/05/2015

Signature: ........................................................

This project concentrates on building capacity for Jordanian olive farmers, olive mill personnel, table olive personnel and olive sensory evaluation teams.

The project includes six work pAackages and 20 deliverables covering the activities that should be carried out during the project life.

The achieved activities include:

1. During November and December, 2013 the contact person provided the EACEA in Brussels with the needed financial and administrative documents.

2. Preparing the project new financial identification and the international bank account number (IBAN) (wp5/d1)

3. Attending of the national tempus meeting in December 2013 (wp6/d1) and the Brussels tempus meeting in Feb. 2014 (wp6/d1)

4. Preparing of new mandate for JUST and JOPEA (2 national partners) and  the official letter for the new representative of UJ (wp5/d1)

5. Signing the agreements between UJ and EACEA in Feb. 2014 (wp5/d2)

6. Receiving the 1st installment of  the project (60% of the grant) by UJ in Feb 2014 and having a project account in EUR (wp5/d1)

7. Signing the partner agreements between UJ and the other nine partners in April 2014 (wp5/d2)

8. Start meetings with national partners institutions to

a. Clarify the project for them, (wp6/d1)

b. Discussing the evaluation report for our project proposal (wp5/d1)

c. Reviewing the new revised budget of our project and doing the necessary modifications (wp5/d1)

d. The redistribution of the revised project budget between the partners (wp5/d1)

9. Establishing the project administrative and technical team in April 2014(wp5/d2)

10. Establishing the project consulting committee, the steering committee and the higher administrative and financial committee and arranging the committees meetings (wp5/d2)

11. Starting contacting the olive machinery manufacturers to provide quotation for the needed equipments by April 2014 (wp1/d4)

12. Changing the money to EU partners in May 2014 (wp5/d1)

13. Preparing for the project disseminating or kick-off meeting (wp1/d4)

14. Holding the kick-off meeting in UJ by June 2014 with the attendance of all partners (wp1/d5)

15. Construction and creating the website of the project. It can be reached using the link "tempusolive.com“ (wp4/d1)

16. Managing the project and writing and contacting the partners and answering their enquiries as  well as writing and answering the project officer in Brussels (wp5/d2)

17. Determining the specification for the needed olive machinery and sending them to the main EU companies specified in manufacturing such equipment. Several quotations were received and studied and analyzed as well as raised inquiries were answered. (wp1/d2)

18. Visiting Italy and Spain in November 2014 and Turkey in Feb 2015 and discussing with the olive machinery manufacturing companies the needed equipment, their specifications and prices given in the received quotations (wp1/d2)

19. Providing the national companies specified in labs. establishing with the design and drawings for the needed labs and processing hall; quotations were received and studied and inquiries were answered. (wp1/d3)

20. Carrying out activities related to the project dissemination process, This activity is going on by selecting many routes i.e using the project website, participating in the national agricultural exhibitions and the national olive and olive products festivals and scientific days such as attending the IV olive biotech held in Amman by Nov. 2014; participating in the  olive festival in Alhusainiyah (south of Jordan) in October 2014; arranging an olive scientific workshop in Amman with the cooperation of Amman Industry Chamber on 20th December 2014; arranging an olive scientific day in Irbid city with the cooperation of Irbid Agri. Directorate. on 22th Nov.2014 ; arranging an olive scientific workshop in Karak city with the cooperation of Jordanian Agri. Engineers Assoc. on 13th December 2014; participating in the scientific days held in Muta and Alhuson Universities in April 2015 (wp5/d1)

21. The preventive field monitoring visit was carried out by Prof. Ahmad Abu-El-Haija and Ms Haneen Bittar from the National Erasmus+ Office (NEO) in Jordan and Mr Philippe Ruffio from the Agency in Brussels (EACEA) at the University of Jordan on 07/12/2014. Based on the main findings, many recommendations were made and are being taken into account by the project team

22. Starting the assessing quality study for  local olive and olive oil and collecting samples from different regions  of the country, and carrying the physico-chemical and sensory properties for the collected samples; the obtained results have been analyzed statistically and are being changed to a scientific paper which will be published in a refereed scientific journal (wp5/d1)

23. The project team started by December 2013 dealing with the activity of building the main training center at UJ and the two branches at the North of Jordan (Just) and South of Jordan (Muta Univ.). Unfortunately, the team was faced with many difficulties due to the shortage of space and funds. Later on funds (a sum of 150000 EUR) and location , were specified for this purpose and  The Engineering Directorate and the Tender Dept at UJ started working with this activity by September 2014 and it is now ready (wp1/d1)

 24. Preparing for the 1st management project meeting in Verona/ Italy (wp1/d4); the meeting was held on 25-26 Feb. 2015 and by the attendance of all partners. In that meeting many topics were covered such as: achieved activities, planning of the students and staff exchange activities, monitoring and review of the financial aspects of the  project as well as overall review of the critical points of the project and proposed actions. Finally, it was agreed to distribute the responsibilities for the activities and project tasks between partners.

25. By the last two months (April &May 2015), more concentrations were focused on the staff and student exchange activities; Next month (June 2015) two colleagues i.e. prof. Taha and Dr Radwan will visit Granada University whereas Miss Ruba (Jopea partner) will visit The Greece Olive Institute and Prof. Alsaed may visit Verona Univ. in July 2015 and Aristotle Univ. in September 2015. The students exchange activities are also under process.It was agreed in Verona meeting to distribute the Jordanian students between EU partners in the following manner:

26. More efforts are given these days (May 2015) to the project equipment purchasing activity. Many quotations for the olive press and table olive unit have been received and a committee were nominated by the UJ tender dept and the quotations are being studied.

27. The establishing of the sensory and chemical labs. as well as the processing hall and the lecturing room are under process and is expected to be ready by the end of July 2015.

28.  Prof.  Chartzoulakis will start working for the International Congress on Olive and Olive Products activity by the end of May 2015 and provide the partners with an outline. It was also decided to unify the title of the congress as in the excel table (International Congress on Olive and Olive Products) and the congress should be held in December 2016

29. The training activity (train trainers for farmers, olive mills, table olive and sensory teams in 2015 and 2016 ) is taking a significant efforts nowadays. It is planned to have  the maximum possible number of trainees and a training plan and outline is being written by Jordanian partners. Trainers to be trained will be selected through a transparent procedure including advertising in the media, writing to the related ministries and organizations, advertising in the project web site,   etc.

30. Generally, we can say that about 40% of the project planned tasks have been achieved.However, good effort to be made by the project team to compensate for the 10% delays already occurred in the project.

Some modifications were conducted on the work plan and budget as well as the project proposal.  Those modifications were done during the kick-off meeting held in Amman/Jordan by June 2014, and were agreed by all partners and  had an acceptance from EACEA.

A.                  Work plan and budget modifications

1. Starting  date  of some activities in the project

1.1 Kick-off meeting were conducted in June 2014 instead of January 2014; the 1st management meeting was held in Italy in Feb 2015 instead of July 2014;   

1.2 Summary of the project funding requirements (Table 2)

The travel cost and cost of stay were increased by 10,000  € (less than 10%) and become 165,054,00 € instead of 155,054,00 € and accordingly other costs were reduced by 10,000 € and became 109,000.00 € instead 119,000,00 €.  Co-finance  was also modified to 93,151,00 € instead 93,000,00 €.

 1.3 Staff cost ( Table 3)

Only number of working days as manager (category 1) for the University of Jordan was re-distributed and to include work package 3.

 1.4 Travel cost and cost of stay ( Table 4)

a. The total travel cost and cost of stay for the Jordanian partners were modified as have been mentioned in 1.2

b. Number of persons attending the first management meeting will be 8 and number of days 32 and total cost for this item will be 9632 € instead of 7880 €

c. For purchasing equipment, number of people will be 2 instead of 1 and number of days will be 14 and then total cost for this item will reach 7248 €  instead of 3000 €.

 1.5 Equipment ( Table 5)

Due to the initial information collected from the manufacturing companies, the cost of some instruments were modified and as the following:

a. Olive mill cost were modified to 70,000 € instead of 40,000 €

b. Atomic absorption  having  the cost 30,000 € were cancelled

c. Subscription in journal were reduced from 15,000 € to 5000 € and the 10,000 € difference were specified to buy analytical instruments such as balances, water baths, pH meter ….etc.

 1.6 Other costs (Table 7)

a. Other costs were reduced by 10,000 € to be 109,000 € instead 119,000 € to compensate for the travel cost.

 1.7 Co-Finance ( Table 8)

 It was changed to 93,151,00 € instead 93,000 ,00 € ( Table 5)

 1.8 No changes were done on budget break down by partner institutes (table 10)

B.               Logical Framework Matrix (LFM)

 Changes in LFM were at minimum; little modifications were done on the international olive conference as well as the management meetings and as in the enclosed LFM.

 C.           The proposal of the project

 Some changes were done on the proposal of the project, examples for such changes include:

1.     The name of the legal representative of JU was changed i.e Prof.  Khyami-Horani was replaced by Prof.  Batsh

2.     The name of the legal representative of JSSEF was also changed i.e Dr Tawalbeh was replaced by Prof. Al-Ismael

3.      Some changes were conducted on the management meetings and the international olive congress

4.     Some items in the budget summary were modified i.e travel cost and cost of stay, other costs, co-finance and equipment

5.      Equipment for EU partners were cancelled

6.       The hanger to accommodate the main olive training center was replaced by a building and its cost was paid by UJ instead of Tempus

7.     The date of some activities were modified

8.     A re-distribution of staff costs (manager category) were done to include work package 3

9.       EU trainers for olive pickling and olive mill were modified

1.Date of signing the agreement and changing the funds

It is not fair to say that the IV call TEMPUS projects started actually by December 2013 while signing the agreement and changing the funds were performed by February 2014.

2. Establishing the olive training centre

The rector of the university of Jordan (UJ) promised the steering committee of the project During the dissemination  meeting (June 2014) that the building of the olive training centre will be ready during three months (September 2014), unfortunately, it took 12 instead of 3 months.

3. Discrepancy between the UJ laws and instructions and those of EACEA

UJ refused to modify some of the applied instructions especially those relating to the participation of the university employee in the olive project activities. An example is that the project team was obliged to contract with a financial expert from outside the university.

4. Purchasing the project equipment

The project team  had an exclusion  in the form of a signed letter from  his Excellency the Prime

Minister to purchase the needed project equipment directly and without going through the routine procedure which is time consuming. Unfortunately, the Tender Dept. at UJ refused that letter and followed the routine procedure for purchasing, and as a result, there is a delay of more than 3 months in the purchasing process.

5. Freezing the project coordinator staff cost allowances

The higher administrative and financial committee of the project took a decision in one of her meetings to follow a special procedure for paying the staff cost allowances. This procedure dictates that paying is connected to completion of the project tasks or activities. As a result, the project coordinator has not received his staff cost allowances since September 2014.

6. The staff cost of project team in the UJ was reduced by 50%

An amount of 65000 EUR were allocated  in the original project proposal  funds to construct the training centre. Later on, we came to know that EU funds can not be used for building. As a result, UJ took this responsibility on her account and built the centre with an estimated cost of about 150 000 EUR. Due to the financial difficulties facing the UJ, it was impossible for her to manage the co-finance item and  participate with an amount of about 45000 EUR as co-finance. The solution was to take this sum from the staff cost; accordingly, the actual staff cost for UJ is only 45000 and not 89000 EUR.

Main targets

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The project will aid in strengthening the olive production and technology MSc program that will start September 2015 in the University of Jordan

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Title and reference number of the work package (WP)

Indicators of achievement and or/performance as indicated in the project proposal

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D1

Establishing the main training center and its 2 branches

December 2013

June 2014

Jordan

The building of the main centre is ready

The engineering unit in UJ nominated a committee from 5 persons to check and receive the building from the contractor

D2

Purchasing the needed equipment

March 2015

July 2015

Jordan

The process for this activity is going on

The Tender unit in UJ nominated a committee from 4 persons to study and analyse the  received quotations

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Establishing the 3 sensory and 2 chemical labs

April 2015

July 2015

Amman/Jordan

The process for this activity is going on

The engineering unit in UJ is looking for a subcontractor to perform this activity

D4

Project dissemination meeting to be held in Amman in 2014

May 2014

June 2014

Amman/Jordan

The dissemination meeting took place in Jordan

The minutes of the meeting are being published on the website of the project

D5

1st management meeting to be held in Italy in 2014

Feb.2015

March 2015

Verona/Italy

The 1st management meeting took place in Italy

The minutes of the meeting are being published on the website of the project

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D1

Establishing the main training center and its 2 branches

December 2013

June 2014

Amman

Irbid

Karak

The building of the main centre is ready

The engineering unit in UJ nominated a committee from 5 persons to check and receive the building from the contractor

D2

Purchasing the needed equipment

March 2015

September2015

Amman

Irbid

Karak

After selecting the proper quotation, the manufacturer to be contacted, a letter of credit with the needed price to be opened, the manufacturer to transport the machinery to Jordan and start the installation and training process

The olive press and table olive line starts offering training courses

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Establishing the 3 sensory and 2 chemical labs

April 2015

September 2015

Amman

Irbid

Karak

The selected subcontractor will shortly start dealing with the needed laboratories

The laboratories start working and provide the analysis activities

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Workshops for olive farmers trainers

May 2015&

June 2016

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September 2016

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Irbid

Karak

This training activity is in its preparation stage

Not achieved yet

D2

Workshops for table olive personnel trainers

July2015&

June 2016

October 2015&

September 2016

Amman

Has not started

Not achieved yet

D3

Workshops for olive mill personnel trainers

July 2015&

June 2016

October

2015&

September 2016

Amman

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D4

Establishing three sensory team trainers for olive oil and table olives

July

2015&

June 2016

October

2015&

September 2016

Amman

Has not started

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D5

Visit of distinguished trainees for 1 week to Spain

August 2016

October 2016

Granada/Spain

Has not started

Not achieved yet

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D1

Workshops for olive farmers trainers

May 2015&

June 2016

August 2015&

September 2016

Amman

Irbid

Karak

The training to be one week in 2015 and another week in 2016 (5 working days) on several subjects  related to olive production and handling

Samples from the olive oil produced by the trained farmers, to be evaluated using the (IOC) standards.

D2

Workshops for table olive personnel trainers

July2015&

June 2016

October 2015&

September 2016

Amman

The training to be one week in 2015 and another week in 2016 (5 working days) on several subjects  related to table olive processing  and quality

Samples from the table olive produced by the trained table olive personnel  to be evaluated  using the (IOC) standards.

D3

Workshops for olive mill personnel trainers

July 2015&

June 2016

October

2015&

September 2016

Amman

The training to be one week in 2015 and another week in 2016 (5 working days) on several subjects  related to olive pressing and technology

The quality of olive oil samples taken from olive mills related to the trainees will be assessed before and after training

D4

Establishing three sensory team trainers for olive oil and table olives

July

2015&

June 2016

October

2015&

September 2016

Amman

The training to be one week in 2015 and another week in 2016 (5 working days) on the sensory properties of  table olive and olive oil

The improvement of the table olive and olive oil exports share in inerter-national market

D5

Visit of distinguished trainees for 1 week to Spain

August 2016

October 2016

Granada/Spain

Visit to Spain by distinguished trainees, will be selected using high transparent  method. The ratio of female will be not less than 50%

The visit will be covered by a press conference, advertising in the local magazines as well as the project web site

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End date

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D1

Staff  exchange and courses developing

June 2015

September 2016

EU & Jordan

Seminars and workshops related to olive and olive oil took place and were attended by EU graduate students. The Jordanian staff have training on the use of advanced instrumentation in

Olive oil analysis

D2

Graduate students exchange

September

2015

September 2016

EU & Jordan

Has not started

Not achieved yet

D3

Project  2nd management meeting to be held in Amman in 2015

August 2015

September 2015

Amman

Has not started

Not achieved yet

Activity N°

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End date

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Specific and measurable indicators of progress

D1

Staff  exchange and courses developing

June 2015

September 2016

EU & Jordan

Seminars and workshops related to olive and olive oil took place and were attended by EU graduate students. The EU staff have developed  the courses related to olive and olive oil

D2

Graduate students exchange

September

2015

September 2016

EU & Jordan

This activity is under process; communications are being conducted to fix the timing and place for all students to be exchanged either Jordanian or EU students

The graduate studentseither from EU or Jordan had been performed part of  their practical work in the hosting institute

D3

Project  2nd management meeting to be held in Amman in 2015

August 2015

September 2015

Amman

The project coordinator to start next August contacting the partners and  preparing the agenda and arranging the meeting

Having the minutes of the meeting

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End date

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Specific and measurable indicators of achievement

D1

Creation of the website

June

2014

November 2016

Jordan

The website of the project was created by June 2014. It can be reached using the link "tempusolive.com“. Up-dating  the website is going on

The web site of the project

is working actively

D2

Hosting the olive products conference in October 2016

June 2015

October

2016

Dr. Kostas will start working for this activity by the start of June 2015 and to provide the partners with an outline. It was decided to hold the congress in October 2016 or in March 2017 if the project was extended for 6 months

An  international olive products congress had been arranged.

A proceeding has been issued from the olive conference

D3

The 3rd management  meetings to be held in Jordan in October  2016

September2016

October

2016

Aqaba/

Jordan

Has not started

Not achieved  yet

Activity N°

Activity

Title

Start date

End date

Place

Description of the activity to be carried out

Specific and measurable indicators of progress

D1

Creation of the website

June

2014

November 2016

Jordan

Up-dating  the website is going on

The web site of the project is working actively

D2

Hosting the olive products conference in October 2016

June 2015

November 2016

Prof. Kostas will continue working for this activity with the cooperation of  Prof. Alsaed. Scientific , administrative and  other committees to be nominated; flyers regarding the congress registration and fixed dates to receive the abstracts and full papers to be distributed. 

An  international olive products congress had been arranged.

A proceeding has been issued from the olive conference

D3

The 3rd management  meetings to be held in Jordan in October  2016

August 2016

October

2016

Aqaba/

Jordan

The project coordinator to start by September 2016 contacting the partners and  preparing the agenda and arranging the meeting

Having the minutes of the meeting

Activity N°

Activity

Title

Start date

End date

Place

Description of the activity carried out

Specific and measurable indicators of achievement

D1

Having a successful management for the project

June 2014

November 2016

Jordan&EU

The project work-plan has one disseminating and  3 management meetings where  the steering committee assess  how the activities of the project proceeds.

Additionally, the Jordanian  partners used to hold a bi-weekly meeting and assess how the project proceeds.

Before the end of the project, an external auditor will be asked to audit the project and present his report

D2

Having a high quality project

June 2014

November 2016

Jordan&EU

Before the end of the project, an external auditor will be asked to audit the project and present his report

Activity N°

Activity

Title

Start date

End date

Place

Description of the activity to be carried out

Specific and measurable indicators of progress

D1

Having a successful management for the project

June 2014

November 2016

Jordan&EU

The work in this activity is continuing

Before the end of the project, an external auditor will be asked to audit the project and present his report

D2

Having a high quality project

June 2014

November 2016

Jordan&EU

The work in this activity is continuing

Before the end of the project, an external auditor will be asked to audit the project and present his report

Activity N°

Activity

Title

Start date

End date

Place

Description of the activity carried out

Specific and measurable indicators of achievement

D1

 Disseminating the project activities

March 2014

Nov.

2016

Jordan

The project website “tempusolive.com” will continue working effectively. Face-book as well as  U-tube to be used besides the web site in disseminating the activities of the project

D2

Sustainability and continuation of the project

March 2014

Nov.

2016

Jordan

The project will continue giving its services related to the Jordanian olive sector after ending of EU funding i.e. the web site is working effectively, the laboratories are working efficiently and the training activities are going on

Activity N°

Activity

Title

Start date

End date

Place

Description of the activity to be carried out

Specific and measurable indicators of progress

D1

 Disseminating the project activities

March 2014

Nov.

2016

Jordan

This activity is working continuously for 132 weeks and as was mentioned above

As above

D2

Sustainability and continuation of the project

March 2014

Nov.

2016

Jordan

This activity is working continuously for 88 weeks and as was mentioned above

As above

1. PROJECT COSTS €

Estimated budget of the project (Annex II)

2. PROJECT EXPENDITURE TO DATE €

Declared

Paid from
Tempus

Declared

Paid from
Tempus

Declared

Paid from
Tempus

I

Staff costs

229,498.00

40,859.29

1,403.28

42,262.57

II

Travel costs and Costs of Stay

165,054.00

20,303.70

0.00

20,303.70

III

Equipment

224,000.00

138,086.13

0.00

138,086.13

IV

Printing and publishing

20,000.00

778.27

0.00

778.27

V

Other costs

109,000.00

3,848.74

0.00

3,848.74

VI

Indirect costs[1]

52,328.64

14,369.56

14,369.56

799,880.64

218,245.70

1,403.28

219,648.98