opnMe congratulates on the 15th anniversary of the GJU: Offering internships with the opnMe team

22 March 2021

Since 2018, students from the German-Jordanian University (GJU) receive training and gain practical skills in design and visual communication as part of a six-month internship at Boehringer Ingelheim’s opnMe.com digital communication team. The GJU has recently celebrated its 15th anniversary and the opnMe team is delighted to congratulate on this occasion.

Watch the video how one of our interns, Raneem Sawalha, provides feedback on her internship with us.

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About the GJU

The German-Jordanian University (GJU) is a public university located in Amman, Jordan. It was founded in 2005 by a Royal Decree, in accordance with a memorandum of understanding reached between the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany. The set-up of the university is somewhat unique in Jordan by following the German Fachhochschule model of education. As part of their education, students spend one year at one of the 120 German partner universities. During this time, they are asked to enroll for an internship of at least 20 weeks in full-time employment at a company in Germany. Since the beginning of 2018, Boehringer Ingelheim offers six-months internships to students from the area of Design and Visual Communication. Based on the good experience with students from the GJU, in 2020 Boehringer Ingelheim has become an industry partner of the university.

About opnMe:

As part of Raneem Sawalha’s internship, she supported opnMe.com, our open innovation portal. Through opnMe, scientists from around the world can order well-characterized molecules for free to advance their research projects. In addition, they can submit research collaboration proposals for select molecules or defined scientific questions. Selected projects which would allow access to further unprecedented and unpublished molecules and data as well as funding. Projects would be pursued together with scientific experts from our Discovery Research organization.