March-May 2017
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Trainees
(seven) visited UGR, Granada for one week (12/3-18/3/2017). One of them got a delayed
visa; therefore she accompanied the contact person of JSSEF during her visit to
UGR later on to get training (1/4-9/4/ 2017). During the visit, the trainees
visited olive consultation companies and laboratories, and olive pickling and
milling companies; trained on olive and olive oil analysis methods. The trainees express their appreciation for the training they got.
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Contacts
with the Holiday Inn, Al-Oula (Service Company) and the interpreters were
signed in preparation for conducting the final workshop. The program of the final workshop was set,
the flyer was prepared and distributed, the presenters (internal and external) were
invited, printing materials and the theme were designed. The content of
proceedings booklet was gathered and revised. It was decided to hold the workshop
in 24th April 2017 when the project was extended for 6 months. Video
recording, photographing and signatures of the attendees were collected. Disseminating
materials: leather folder with solar calculator, memory stick (8 G), pens, and
notebooks, the flyer and the proceeding booklet were distributed on the
attendees during the final workshop.
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In
the next day (25th April) of the workshop, a technical visit to Al-MANASEER
Olive Mill Company, organic olive farms and olive farms at Jarash and alAzraq
areas was conducted to take a closer look at the live trees frosting problem
that happened in 17 Nov 2017. The total numbers of visitors were 25.
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The
final meeting (26-27th April) was held at the Department of
Nutrition and Food Technology of the University of Jordan in the attendance of Dr. Mehyar Ghadeer, Dr. Chartzoulakis Kostas,
Dr. Psarras Georgios; Prof. Favati Fabio,
Dr. Nenadis Nikos in behalf of Prof.
Tsimidou Maria, Dr. Rodriguez Celia in behalf of Prof . Segura-Carretero Antonio, Prof. Rababah Taha, Prof. AL- Absi Khalid, Dr. AL-Rousan Walid,
Ms. Daghmish Ruba, and Eng. Al-Momani Samar. The agenda of the meeting was
prepared prior to the meeting and sent to the contact persons of the partners.
During the meeting, Dr. Mehyar gave presentation on the achievements of the
project, prof. Rababah, Prof. AL-Absi and Dr. AL-Rousan gave briefings about
the established laboratories in their universities. The final report was
reviewed and the financial reports of all the partners were overviewed.
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Following
the final meeting, the minutes were sent to the partners for approval. Partners
were also asked to send missed documents and a progress report for every six
month of the life time of the project. Partners asked the coordinator to send
their full financial report by the end of May 2017 so as to allow enough time
for the external auditor to work on the financial report of the project.
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The
second part of the survey study (after the training assessment) was presented
by Prof. Alsmael in the final workshop of the project in his presentation
entitled “Some chemical characteristics of olive oil of the Nabali cultivar
growing in Jordan”.
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The
website of the project and the final workshop were updated as requested in the
final meeting.
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The
visit of Dr. AL-Rousan of Al Balka University to UNVIR/ Verona in the period 29/4-4/5/2017
was supervised.
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Financial
issues of the partners were followed up in preparation for finalizing their
financial reports and auditing.
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Preparation
and editing the final report was performed as discussed and suggested in the
final meeting.
The Project coordinator
Ghadeer Mehyar
18 May 2017