YDRC English Language Training Program

                

Employment Opportunities

AMIDEAST, an international non-profit organization in the West Bank and Gaza, is implementing an English Language Training program through a subgrant from EDC –Ruwwad Youth Empowerment Program funded by the Unite

Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarship Program

Application deadline for this program as January 10, 2011. No more applications will be accepted.
 
The U.S. Department of State
Middle East Partnership Initiative
 
Announces the
 
Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarship Program
 
The U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and AMIDEAST are pleased to announce this year’s recruitment for the Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarship Program. The Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarship Program is a MEPI initiative for capable and highly motivated high school seniors in the Middle East and North Africa who are from underserved backgrounds. The program will provide four-year university scholarships and internship opportunities at select institutions of higher learning in the Middle East to students who have the potential to become leaders. 
 
Eligible students include men and women who represent the region’s cultural, religious, and geographic diversity and are from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, who could otherwise gain admission to, but would be unable to afford, four years of college. Tomorrow's Leaders scholarship recipients should be prepared to begin the program in the Fall 2011 term.
 
The primary objective of MEPI's Tomorrow's Leaders scholarship program is to build a cadre of university-age leaders who are civic-minded, intellectually able, and professionally skilled, and who will become the community, business, and national leaders of the future.

Tomorrow's Leaders Scholarship Program

We are not currently accepting applications. Please check this page for updates.

 The U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and AMIDEAST are pleased to announce this year’s recruitment for the Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarship Program. The Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarship Program is a MEPI initiative for capable and highly motivated high school seniors in the Middle East and North Africa who are from underserved backgrounds. The program will provide four-year university scholarships and internship opportunities at select institutions of higher learning in the Middle East to students who have the potential to become leaders. 

Eligible students include men and women who represent the region’s cultural, religious, and geographic diversity and are from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, who could otherwise gain admission to, but would be unable to afford, four years of college. Tomorrow's Leaders scholarship recipients should be prepared to begin the program in the Fall 2011 term.
 
The primary objective of MEPI's Tomorrow's Leaders scholarship program is to build a cadre of university-age leaders who are civic-minded, intellectually able, and professionally skilled, and who will become the community, business, and national leaders of the future. The program intends to nurture leadership skills and the spirit of civic engagement and volunteerism among outstanding university-age students at the American University in Cairo.

Employment Opportunities

  • Trainers - Ramallah, Jerusalem, Nablus, and Hebron offices. more

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Leadership Development & Emotional Intelligence

"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves." -- Stephen Covey

Course Description

This fast-paced, results-oriented seminar is uniquely designed to strengthen leadership communication skills. Participants will learn how to connect to efforts of their teams to the organizations' critical objectives, tap the full potential of each individual on the team, clarify purposes, inspire trust, and unleash the talent and capability of their teams to achieve the organizations' highest priorities. In addition, this workshop offers in-depth knowledge and practice in Emotional Intelligence (IE) skills. Participants will learn how to apply EI to gain success in motivating their team members to do their work. Participants will learn how to improve their EI skills such as self-awareness, self-confidence, motivation, empathy, and relationship management.

Course Benefits

Participants will learn to:

LEED® Green Associate Exam Preparation

Course Duration

1.5 days (12 hours)

Course Overview

Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. For professionals who support green building design, construction, and operations, the LEED Green Associate credential denotes basic knowledge of green building principles and practices and LEED. This course provides introductory information about green buildings and LEED and prepares participants to take the LEED Green Associate exam.

Course Objectives

This course will be an introduction to the concepts of sustainable, high performance green buildings, as well as methods for designing, constucting and evaluating them. The course will provide key preparatory information about the needed tools and technical expertise for taking the LEED Green Associate exam.

Who Should Attend

As the Green Associate is the first of the three tiers in the Green Building Certification Institute's (GBCI's) professional credential ladder, both experienced and novice green building industry professionals are eligible to attend. This is a perfect class for those seeking to learn about and work on green building projects and more particularly those seeking to earn the LEED Green Associate credential.

  • Developers
  • Building Owners
  • Client Representative
  • Architects
  • Engineers
  • Contractors
  • Consultants
  • Environmental, Health and Safety Managers
  • Sustainability Managers
  • Facility Managers

Please review the eligibility requirements for the LEED Green Associate exam at:  www.gbci.org

Project Risk Management

Course Description

The purpose of Risk Management is to identify potential problems before they occur so that risk-handling activities can be planned and invoked as needed across the life of the project to mitigate adverse impacts on achieving objectives. This learning course will teach the participants how to identify, analyze and respond to risks before they happen. It also teaches participants to control and manage risks when they occur. This learning course also serves to help participants prepare for the Project Management Institute's Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP®) Exam with the most understanding of project risk management according to the Fourth Edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).

Duration:

31.5 hours / 27 PDUs

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Project Management Professional (PMP®) Exam Preparation

Course Duration: 35 Hours

Attaining the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation has become a benchmark in many industries that employ project managers. For people who choose project management as a career this has become a professional certification they must achieve. This course helps participants understand and master the material that is covered on the PMP exam and provides 35 hours of training required by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to be eligible for the exam.

Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on course gives participants the skills to ensure their projects are completed on time and on budget while giving the user the product they expect. Participants will gain a strong working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately apply it to effectively manage projects at work. In addition, participants will be well prepared to take the PMP exam.

Why obtain the certification? PMI’s research shows that the worldwide average for PMP certified project managers is over USD 114,000. The 2008 Salary Survey done by IT Republic showed that PMP certified project managers made over USD 6,000 more than the next highest-paid certification, ITIL Foundations.
 

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

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History of Engineering

 

The Pyramids. Luxor and Karnak Temples. Irrigated agriculture. Water wheels. Papyrus
boats that sailed the oceans. The Nile Barrages. Suez Canal. Aswan High Dam. Preservation
of Abu Simbel. El-Salaam Water Project. From ancient times to the present, many of the
world's most impressive engineering feats have occurred in one country – Egypt.

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