GuidebookCNRD Scholarships

2012

Center for Natural Resources and Development

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— Pontificia Universidad de Valparaíso (PUCV) - Chile

— Ain Shams University (ASU) - Egypt

— Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) -

Germany

— Gadjah Mada University (UGM) - Indonesia

— University of Jordan (JU) - Jordan

— Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP) -

Mexico

— Tribhuvan University (TU/IOE) - Nepal

PublisherCenter for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD)Institute for Technology and Resources Mangagement in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT)Betzdorfer Straße 2 50679 Köln (Deutz) Germany

AuthorsAnne Burkhardt

Simone Sandholz

Joschka Thurner

DesignVictoria RozhynaAnne Burkhardt

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PublisherCenter for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD)Institute for Technology and Resources Mangagement in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT)Betzdorfer Straße 250679 Köln (Deutz)Germany

AuthorsSimone SandholzJoschka Thurner,Nina Köksalan,Nora LucidiITT, CNRD CoordinationAnja Schwerin ,Ramchandra BhandariAlumni of ITT

DesignChristian Ivanis

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CNRD scholarship holders during a trip to Cologne Christmas Market

General Introduction

To support achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) established the Center for Natural Resources Development hosted at the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT).

CNRD is a knowledge hub and network regarding issues on assessing and managing the natural resources base as prerequisite for sustainable development, also by allowing student mobility between the partner universities. To support the exchange of students CNRD off ers fi nancial support for Master’s students who want to carry out their fi eld research abroad or who want to join one of the other CNRD Master’s Programs for one semester.

Because of the diff erent procedures at the CNRD partner universities this booklet was elaborated to support the students before and during their stay abroad.

The pictures on the following pages show the students of the fi rst CNRD batch during their time in Germany. Also some other students of ITT kindly gave some materials included in this brochure.

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Germany – CUAS

Preparation before Arriving 8

Arriving in Germany 11

Administrative Tasks 12

CUAS-ITT 15

Living in Cologne 19

Your contact Persons 24

Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Campus Deutz

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Preparation before Arriving

Accommodation Arrangement

ITT will support you in fi nding a room in Cologne. There are not many places available in dormitories, but they will try their best to get at least suffi cient rooms for the students.

Feel free to search for an accommodation on your own, for example visit the webpage http://www.wg-gesucht.de. Anyhow, it is not recommended to come to Cologne before arranging a place to stay (your own room or with relatives, friends), because living in hotels is very expensive. The cheapest places to stay are youth hostels, where you share a room with other people. The cost is between 20 and 30 Euro per night.

Winter in Cologne

Flight Booking

Before you apply for a visa you have to book, at least for a tentative day, your fl ight to Germany. Nearest to Cologne is the airport Cologne-Bonn. Bigger international airports are for example Düsseldorf or Frankfurt; to reach Cologne from those you need to take the train (there are various to choose from depending on speed and comfort). Please ask your travel agency, your fellow students or ITT for support if you have any doubts. Once you bought the ticket, provide your travel schedule to ITT so that they can arrange your pick-up from the airport or the train station in Cologne and guide you to your room.

Also, when traveling to Germany, please ask the airline company or check online about the maximum weight of your check-in luggage, carry-on luggage, forbidden items and any other regulations. You can get almost everything in Germany so do not worry and keep in mind that it is very expensive to pay for extra kilos of luggage. You might even encounter some shops selling items from your country or at least from your continent.

Visa Application

For your studies in Germany, you need to apply for a visa at the German Embassy in your home country. Make sure you apply for a student visa and not for a tourist visa. In case you are unsure about the documents requested, please do not hesitate to contact you coordinator at ITT. The student visa is valid for for three months and you have to extend it in Germany before it expires. In case you enter Germany with a tourist visa, you cannot extend it in Germany. This would create a big problem.

Insurance

Health, liability and accident insurence are mandatory and you must be covered upon entering Germany. A combined insurance contract costs between 40€ - 60€ per month. Your coordinator at ITT will help you identifi ying the required contracts.

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Pre Departure Steps

Before leaving please write down all the important telephone numbers you might need, e.g. person who is picking you up from airport or train station, ITT, embassy or consulate of your country in Germany, German embassy in your home country, your friends in Germany, etc. In case of any unexpected incidents, those telephone numbers might help you a lot. You can also note the important hotline numbers in Germany, the police hotline number is 110, and the ambulance/fi re fi ghter hotline number is 112. You can dial those numbers from any public telephone booth or from any mobile phones in Germany free of charge.

Arriving in Germany

This section gives information on how to get to Cologne and your administrative duties after arrival.

How to get to Cologne

When arriving at a German airport, you will pass immigration, get your luggage and then go through customs. If you already have your train ticket, please proceed to the platforms which are nearby and clearly marked. If you do not have a train ticket, you may buy one at the travel center or a ticket vending machine of the German railway (Deutsche Bahn). With a valid ticket (some tickets have to be marked before or in the train), take the train heading to Cologne and get off at Cologne central train station (Hauptbahnhof) or at Deutz (Bahnhof Deutz, Messe). There you will be picked up by someone from ITT. Before you take the train, it is very helpful to inform the person who is picking you up about your exact arrival time, any delays and maybe the platform number where you will arrive in Cologne (usually mentioned on the

The Rhine

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train ticket). You can use public telephone booths to make a phone call but you need coins or a telephone card, which you can get at the airport stores.

If you are landing at Cologne Bonn airport, you will be picked up at the airport, so just wait at the meeting point you should have agreed on with ITT in advance.

Sometimes, due to any number of reasons, the person who is picking you up might be late. In this case, please do not panic, be patient and wait a bit. If it anyhow takes longer, try to call the person or any other contact which you got from ITT. No matter what, there will always be assistance, you will be picked up, accompanied to your place and be provided with the necessary information for the coming days.

Administrative Tasks

It is very important to take care of the following administrative formalities in the fi rst weeks of your stay in Germany. Please do not hesitate to contact your coordinator at ITT if you need assistance.

Open a Bank Account

To receive the scholarship from the DAAD in Germany, you have to open a Bank account with Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Sparkasse, Citibank or any other. You do not need any money to open the bank account. Just take your passport (original and 1 copy), letter of award, student identity card and fi ll in a form. You will receive your bank card and other details within a couple of days by post. So it is important to give your address in Germany or put your ITT coordinator as contact person. All banks provide internet banking facilities upon request.

Room Contract Signing

You need to sign an official contract of accommodation, either with the house owner/administrator or with Kölner Studentenwerk if you are living in a dormitory. You need a copy of your passport, your visa and your bank account details from which the rent is automatically subtracted on the beginning of every month. In the very first month, a certain amount of deposit has to be paid. In dormitories this amount is currently 300 Euro, but for private rooms this might be very diff erent. In case of any damages, the house owner will compensate those costs from the deposit. If not, the deposit will be fully refunded otherwise when canceling the room contract and you are moved out. Because your stay in Germany is less than one year, there is no deposit in the dormitories of Studentenwerk but you have to pay 30 EUR per month on top of the rent, which will not be refunded.

Municipality Registration

Once you have a room contract, you need to register your accommodation in Cologne with the municipality at the resident registration authority where you fi ll in a registration form and submit it together with a copy of your visa and room contract. There are no costs for this registration procedure but every time you change your room afterwards, you need to do a re-registration. Note that there are diff erent branches of municipalities according to the city districts and better ask your house administrator where you have to register. Do not forget to give notice of departure before you are leaving Germany.

Visa Extension

You must not forget to extent your visa before it expires. Ask at your resident registration authority where to extend it and go to the responsible foreign authority. They will tell you what documents you have to hand in (e.g. certifi cate of residency, proof of insurance) and when to pick up your visa extension. It is recommendable to ask your course coordination for a letter

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in German informing about your student status and your scholarship before going to the foreign authority as this might facilitate the procedure.

CUAS-ITT

How to get to ITT

From the Central Train Station of Cologne (Köln Hauptbahnhof):Take the underground train (U-Bahn) number 16 or 18 direction Neumarkt. Once at Neumarkt, take train number 1 or 9 direction Bensberg or Königforst. Get out at the train station called Deutz-Kalker Bad/Fachochschule/LanxessArena (fourth station after Neumarkt) and follow the signs to the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule).

From train station Cologne Deutz (Koeln-Deutz):Take any train (e.g. S6, S11, S12, S13, RB25) from Platform (Gleis) 9/10 and get out of the train in Köln-Deutz. Take the underground train (U-Bahn) number 1 or 9 direction Bensberg or Königfrost. Get out at the train station called Deutz-Kalker Bad/Fachhochschule/LanxessArena (first station after Köln-Deutz) and follow the signs to the University of Applied Science (Fachhochschule).

Students at ITT

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Once you reach the Cologne University of Applied Sciences building, go to the 4th floor and then look for the east wing (orange red color). You will see the ITT board after entering.

ITT Computer-Lab

Enrolment at CUAS

Study fees are around 220€ per semester. After you are immatriculated, you will receive some documents from the Campus IT about the central directory service (Zentraler Verzeichnisdienst ZVD) and your Email account. With your personal ZVD account you will get access to specifi c IT-services, for example WLAN, VPN, ILIAS and the E-Library. For more information please refer to the VPN guideline or have a look at http://www.campus-it.fh-koeln.de.

Furthermore, you will get a user name and password for the online examination and student services platform PSSO. Under https://psso.fh-koeln.de you can then log-in, confi rm for the following semester, arrange semester fee payments and check all other matters regarding student and exam aff airs. You must not forget to register for your exams in CUAS within the period of 26.09.2012 - 2.10.2012. Without registration you are not allowed to take part in the exam but you have the possibility to unsubscribe one week before the exam. To avoid complications, it is easier if you register for all your exams in the beginning of the semester.

Student Card

With admission at the university, a student identity card is issued, called MultiCa. This card contains your name, photo, matriculation number, and a chip card. The same card works as student identity card, city transport ticket (VRS ticket), library card, cafeteria payment card, photocopy machine payment card, etc. To use it as a VRS ticket, the card needs to be activated every semester. After the semester fees are payed, activation can be done by yourself at dedicated terminals in the lobby. You can transfer money to your MultiCa from your bank card (EC-card) at the machines located at the university. You might also get student discounts with this card in some places e.g. museums, etc. It is important to always carry the card while using the public transportation system. As all students are already inscribed at the time they arrive to Cologne the MultiCa is already issued to everybody or will be immediately after arrival, so that public transportation and all other benefi ts can be utilized.

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Studying at ITT

All classes are held in English language. They start in the evening at 3.50 pm from Monday until Thursday (4 days a week). Courses will be taught in modules, which mean that you will have one course for 3-4 weeks and fi nish the modules with an examination, student work or with a report. Soon thereafter follows the next block course. The examination result of each module is published in the notice board of the institute. The time gap between examination date and result date might vary from some weeks up to a few months. If one cannot pass the examination on the fi rst attempt, there are two chances to repeat the same examination in the following semesters. There is no fee to be paid to repeat the examination.

Farewell celebration of Prof. Gaese in Summer 2009 in CUAS central building

Living in Cologne

Cologne is a great city and has a lot to off er. To get familiar and adapt as fast as possible, the paragraphs below will provide you with some tips and guidelines.

About Cologne

Cologne was founded as the Roman settlement Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensum and its fi rst city wall was built in the 1st century A.D. Today - with a population of over one million - Cologne is the biggest city in North Rhine Westphalia and the fourth-largest city in Germany. The city’s famous and imposing landmark is the cathedral (Kölner Dom), a masterpiece of the high gothic style and one of the biggest cathedrals in Europe. The cathedral is also the heart of the city, bordering on the south part of the old town with numerous pubs, breweries and cafés. Also in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral you will fi nd retail areas that invite you to stroll and shop.

Celebrating Cologne Carneval

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Another distinctive feature of the city is the Rhine, a river that marks large parts of the cityscape and is crossed by bridges from where you can see imposing views of the city’s historical skyline. Culture also plays a major role in Cologne, and with 40 museums, 100 private galleries, 40 private and public theatres, the opera house, philharmonic and musical theatres, Cologne has a lot to off er in this fi eld. As the home base of the VIVA music video channel and countless radio and TV broadcasting stations, book, newspaper and magazine publishing houses, Cologne is Germany’s music and media centre. Sports fans will also be spoiled for choice, and with soccer, horse and bike racing, ice hockey, basketball and the Cologne Marathon there’s something to suit every taste.

Climate

Germany has four weather seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Weather in summer is very comfortable and it is not very hot. T-shirts or similar light clothes are appropriate. In autumn, temperatures slightly start to fall and there are many rainy days. For most students, winter is the most unpleasant season of the year. The temperature falls below zero degrees Celsius and the daylight period is very short. In Cologne, severe snow fall is uncommon, but in many parts of Germany it occurs. Students from Latin America might feel very tired; a bit depressed because of the plain-looking environment, and recognize that their body has to adjust. Therefore you need warm clothes for this season. With mild weather and longer daylight periods, spring feels like a morning after the winter night.

Communication

In case you are staying in a dormitory of Studentenwerk, you will also have Internet access in your rooms. Just go to IT-Campus at the University and register your PC. This process only takes one day and you will have your Internet connection. If you live in a private place you might have to apply for Internet. Please consult with the house owner beforehand. The application process is quite easy.. If you get a German mobile phone number, be careful

not to commit to a mobile phone contract, as they usually run at least 24 months and can not be cancelled early. Pre-paid cards are a safer and often quite cheaper choice. If you are unsure, ask a senior student or your coordinators for support.

Shopping

The general shopping market in Cologne is similar to that of any other big city. You can fi nd almost all kinds of shops and a diverse range of qualities. However, you will explore those things yourselves after one or two months you live in the city. At fi rst, it might be important to shop for daily consumable goods and products necessary to start your living in Cologne.

— Supermarket chains – Aldi, Lidl, Plus, Real, etc. (Here you can fi nd almost everything you need for daily use, ranging from food and drinks up to cosmetics. Those are the cheapest places to buy such things.)

— Another shopping chain – DMIt is popular for cheap cosmetic items (important for girls!).

— Furniture and household products – IKEAVery helpful to buy reasonable furniture or kitchen utensils. Besides it is always a good trip and worthwhile experience to visit IKEA.

— Tools and other utensils – Praktiker, Obi, BauhausIn those chains you can fi nd mechanical tools and construction items as well as kitchen items.

In all shops you can pay with cash or with a debit card (EC card) but sometimes a minimum amount has to be bought to be able to pay with cards. A debit card is provided by your bank when opening a bank account. Whereas paying with a debit card is accepted almost everywhere in Europe, sometimes it is diffi cult to pay with your credit card (Visa, American Express, etc.). Please check the signs at the shop windows, at their cashier counters or ask the staff if you are not sure.

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Grocery shops are generally open from 8 am until 8 pm, while other shops are open from 10 am until 8 pm. However, there are certain shops that are open until 9 or 10 pm. All shops are open from Monday to Saturday. Almost everything is closed Sundays, except restaurants, movie halls and gas stations.

In Cologne and other big cities you can also fi nd small convenience stores which are called “Kiosk”. Here you can fi nd beverages, alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, snacks and some other basic items. They are generally open from 6 am in the morning until midnight and most of them also on Sundays. You can fi nd those small shops at almost every corner and they are very useful from time to time. However, all items in a “Kiosk” are quite expensive compared to those in supermarkets.

If you are in the mood for shopping, you can go to “Köln Arcaden”, a big shopping complex near ITT (10 minutes by foot) or you can go to “Schildergasse”, a shopping street near Neumarkt. For electronic items, visit the shops called Saturn or Mediamarkt; or ask your fellow students where is the best or cheapest place to buy.

Food and Drinks

Potato and wheat are the basic foods in Germany. You can fi nd many varieties of food made from potatoes and hundreds of varieties of breads made from wheat. Almost every meal contains meat (mainly chicken, pork and beef)

Birthday party in student hostelVisiting Cologne Christmas Market

or milk products (butter, cheese, yoghurt, etc.). Vegetables are available, but not as many as in tropical countries. The typical German food does not exist because there are many regional specialties. Nevertheless, to fi nd a meal without potatoes is almost impossible in the north. Usually a main dish consists of meat, potatoes with gravy sauce and boiled vegetables.

Typical Rhineland dishes in Cologne are: — Halver Hahn: nice big slab of dutch gouda with a rye roll — Himmel und Äd mit Flönz: fried black pudding with mashed potatoes

(“earth”), apple sauce (“heaven”) and fried onions. — Soorbrode / Sauerbraten: joint marinated in vinegar with raisins, usually

served with red cabbage and a kloss (potato dumpling). The joint may be beef or horsemeat.

— Dicke Bunne mit Speck: boiled white beans with hefty boiled bacon slices on top.

— Schweinshaxe (grilled); Hämchen (cooked): pig’s leg (ranges from 600 to 1400 gram, including the bone)

— Rievekoochen / Reibekuchen: fl at fried potato cakes usually on off er once a week, and served with a variety of sweet or savoury toppings, which may include apple sauce

The most important drink in Cologne is the city’s own Kölsch beer, which is only brewed in Cologne - albeit in 30 diff erent varieties. There is no way to avoid it when really adjusting to the city!

For a meal in between or when there is no time for cooking, there are “Döner/Kebap” shops in every corner of the city. They sell cheap pizzas, Döner and similar items at relatively cheaper prices (with about 3 Euro for a Döner and 5 Euro for a pizza). However, you can buy almost all kinds of food if you wish to cook yourself. For example, in Turkish or Asian shops you can fi nd many products also used in Latin America. Almost all students cook their meal at home or they go to the Cafeteria for lunch.

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Your contact persons

Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and SubtropicsCologne University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Lars RibbeExecutive Director

CNRD coordination and Contact Persons:Annekathrin IhdeEmail: annekathrin.ihde@fh-koeln.dePhone: +49-221-8275-2111 Alicia Bustillos AdayaIshrat Jahan (Shimu)Email: cnrd@itt.fh-koeln.dePhone: +49-221-8275-2074 Betzdorfer Str. 250679 Cologne, Germany

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place to stay. Moreover, the cost of this ‘kost’ is often varied according to the facility its offered i.e. the distance to the university, internet access, transportation, inside toilet etc.

Accommodation

Arrangement Faculty will provide any infor-mation regarding to the stu-dent’s accommodation ar-rangement. Should be bear in mind that Faculty does not authorized and responsible for the accommodation arrange-ment, except for supporting the information. Neverthe-less, Faculty would do its best to assist the student to get a proper place to stay during the study program since to get accommodation for students in Yogyakarta is relatively simple with many options including the prices and facili-ties. Several types of accommoda-tions for student in Yogya-

karta are a ‘kost’ (local dor-mitories), university apart-ment, a rent house, hotel and guest host. Amongst these options, mostly the student would prefer to stay in the ’kost’ since it’s the cheapest

Flight Booking Before applying for a visa a flight ticket should be booked at least for a tentative day. There are two International

Airport in Indonesia fly to Yogyakarta which are Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta and Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali. Kindly ask the intended travel agency, the coordinator or colleagues of the coming itinerary or for any doubts.

Once the ticket bought, to directly provide the travel schedule to the coordinator at the Faculty would be appreci-ated in order to arrange the picking up process from the air port or the train station or bus station whether to the Faculty or to the place to stay.

Amongst these options,

mostly the student would

prefer to stay in the ’kost’

since it’s the cheapest place

Preparation Before Arriving

C O N T E N T

Preparation

Before Arriving 1

Arriving in

Indonesia 2

Universitas

Gadjah Mada 4

Living in

Yogyakarta 9

Contact Person 14

FOREIGN STUDENT GUIDEBOOK U N I V E R S I T A S G A D J A H M A D A F A C U L T Y O F G E O G R A P H Y

P A G E 2

“To study in

Indonesia, a

student visa

application is

required and not

for a tourist one.

Please do not

hesitate to contact

the coordinator at

the Faculty” ARRIVING IN INDONESIA

Visa Application To study in Indonesia, a student visa application is required and not for a tourist one. Please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator at the Faculty.

Insurance Health, liability and acci-dent insurance are man-datory and must be cov-ered upon entering Indo-nesia. Any assistance of this service would be

assisted by the coordina-tor at the Faculty. Pre-Departure Steps Before leaving, please write down all the im-portant telephone num-bers that it might be nec-essary e.g. person who is picking you up from air-port or train station or bus station, at the Faculty of Geography, embassy or consulate of your country in Indonesia, Indonesia embassy in

your home country, those telephone numbers which might be needed. Some important number that can be noted are 108 and 106 that can be dial from public telephone booth. To take note also that the public booth is hardly to find in a good condition, therefore en-sure an exact marking point that can be easily to find at the day of arrival.

Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport are two international airports Indonesia whose has direct flight from and to abroad. Soekarno-Hatta International airport is located at Jakarta, the capital city of the country which located at the same island with Yogyakarta while Bali Ngu-rah Rai is located the east part of Java Island.

F O R E I G N S T U D E N T G U I D E B O O K

P A G E 3 F A C U L T Y O F G E O G R A P H Y

How to Get to

Yogyakarta

From both airports to get to Yogyakarta through the flight is can be reach through some local flights with the

destination is Adisucipto In-ternational Airport. Yogya-karta is served by Adisucipto International Airport which connects the city with some other major cities in Indone-

sia, such as Jakarta, Su-rabaya, Bali, Makassar, Balikpapan, Banjarmasin, and Pontianak. It also

connects the city with Singa-pore (operated by Indonesia AirAsia) and Kuala Lumpur (operated by AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines).

The city is located on one of the two major railway lines across Java between Jakarta / Bandung and Surabaya. It has two passenger railway sta-tions, Tugu Railway Station

which serves business and executive class

Once arrived in Indonesia you should within 2 weeks of your arrival : 1. Register at OIA, submit 2 photos (1 of 2×3 cm and 1 of 4×6) 2. Ask a sponsor letter from UGM to be brought to the local immigration office to get KITAS. 3. Pay the tuition fee at MANDIRI Bank (please check to the coordinator at the Faculty concerning to

the tuition waiver agreement) 4. Reimburse the fee of study permit (Ministry of National Education) and Visa Authorization

(Directorate General of Immigration) at BNI Bank 5. Insurance (Mandatory for student who are not insured yet) 6. Go to the program/faculty and bring along the copy of Registration form and tuition fee pay-

ment 7. As soon as you finish reporting yourself in local immigration office (usually after two weeks you

will get KITAS) then you should go to the police for police report (STM & SKLD). In order to get an SKLD from the police, you need to submit the following documents (3 copies of each item, except the photos) :

Soekarno-Hatta

International air-

port is located at

Jakarta, the capi-

tal city of the

country which

located at the

same island with

Yogyakarta while

Bali Ngurah Rai is

located the east

part of Java Island.

To Stay Legally

Before arriving in Indonesia, please contact your coordinator at Bureau of International Affairs (BKLN) at the Faculty or OIA (Office International Affair)/KUI (Kantor Urusan Internasional) at the University

P A G E 4

Faculty of Geography

science was rigidly devel-oped. As the role of the earth expert was more concrete in the develop-ment process and was expanded, the Faculty of Literacy and Culture UGM should let the Earth Science to be an inde-pendent faculty, Faculty of Geography (on 1st

Faculty of Geography was one of the program stud-ies in the Faculty of Lit-eracy, Pedagogy and Phi-losophy UGM, which was the Earth Science study program in 1950. Then in 1956 this faculty became the Faculty of Literacy and Culture UGM. Dur-ing that time, the earth

September 1963, which was commemorate as its anniversary). At its be-ginning, the faculty had two study programs i.e. Physical Geography and Human Geography. During its growth paces, this Faculty is determined to have three depart-

Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) is the oldest and the largest state university in Indo-nesia. It was founded on December 19, 1949 and currently has 18 faculties, 69 undergraduate pro-grams, 24 diploma pro-grams and a Graduate School. Since December 2000, the university has taken a new status as a state-owned legal entity. The University is located in The Special Region of

Yogyakarta, one of the smallest provinces in the country, which has been widely known as the cen-ter of Javanese culture as well as the center of learning. It has 3,200,000 inhabitants, 511,000 of whom reside in the city of Yogyakarta. The Special Region of Yogyakarta focuses its development on three inseparable pil-lars: education, culture, and tourism.

F O R E I G N S T U D E N T G U I D E B O O K

UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA (UGM)

P A G E 5 F A C U L T Y O F

ments with 7 study programs, which are: 1. Department of Physical Geography with the Geomorphology and Land Resources as well as Hydrology

Study Program.

2. Department of Regional Planning and Transmigration which was managed under the Dean authority.

3. In 1991, these departments then simplified as follows:

4. Department of Physical Geography was with Physical Geography study program

5. Department of Human Geography Human with the Geography study program

6. Department of Cartography and Remote Sensing

7. Department of Regional Planning.

Since the SK Mediknas No 1/2006 which stated the UGM authority to hold and close a study program was is-sued, the faculty improved itself through the efficiency which referred to the science development and com-munity demand. Starting from 2007 Faculty of Geography UGM holds 3 (three) study program for undergradu-ate (S1) namely as 1) Physical and Environmental Geography, 2) Cartography and Remote Sensing, and 3) Re-gional Planning.

P A G E 6

Procedure to study at UGM Should the candidates willing to study in UGM, following are the procedures.

1. Submit an application to the Dean to study in UGM whether for 6 months, 1 or 2 year. 2. Complete the application form (attached) and submit it along with the followings: CV Personal statement Letter for Financial Support (guarantee statement) Recommendation letter Copies of Academic record Good Health statement Copy of passport 4 passport size photographs

3. As the application form is accepted and agreed, for the accepted, one a letter of acceptance will be issued by the Faculty, while the excluded one will be sent a letter of hold. . 4. the accepted applicants are required to complete:

An admission form by KUI (Office of International Affair/OIA) UGM

5.The Faculty will forward a letter to OIA to issue a letter of Offer to the student: If the accepted student and UGM have MOU which stated the tuition waiver, thus the student is

free of the fee (under each faculties’ authority) If there is no MOU which stated the tuition waiver, thus it mandatory for the student to pay the

tuition fee for: S1 —> SPP (Semester Fee): IDR 540.000 per semester or USD 60 per semester.

SKS (Semester Credit): IDR 75.000 per sks or 8 USD per sks. S2 —> SPP (Semester Fee): IDR 5.750.000 per semester or USD 640 per semester (S2 Geography and Remote Sensing)

—> SPP: IDR 6.000.000 per semester or USD 667 per semester (S2 Environment and Population)

S3 —> SPP (Semester Fee): IDR 8.750.000 per semester or USD 973 per semester (S3 Geography and Remote Sensing)

—> SPP: IDR 11.000.000 per semester or USD 1223 per semester (S2 Environment and Population)

For the foreign students, it is recommend to make the payment of Student service Fee in order to support the administration process during studying in Yogyakarta.

The Cost for Student service Fee: 6 month : 415 USD 1 year : 497,5 USD 2 year : 860 USD Student service Fee will cover:

Study permit Visa authorization Stay permit (KITAS) Police Reports (STM and SKLD) Temporary Resident permit (SKPPS) Student Health Insurance by GMC (Gadjah Mada Medical Centre)

6. As the Student service Fee is completed by the student, the study permit will be organized by KUI. This process will take not least than 2 months. 7. The student can continue to study in UGM once the study permit is completed

F O R E I G N S T U D E N T G U I D E B O O K

Foreign Student Program Non Degree

P A G E 7 F A C U L T Y O F

(Student Exchange, anguage Course, Immersion, Short Course, Elective/Practical Training (minimum for 3 month and maximum for 1 year) 1. The candidate must submit the application to OIA via online or directly to the office. Some required documents

for the admission are: Admission Form (CV, Personal statement of the willingness to be subject to laws/regulation during his/her study, tuition fee

covered up) A recommendation letter from Indonesia Embassy in the region or from the origin country Embassy Office

in Jakarta. A recommendation letter from the origin university or from the head officer for those whose working Copy of academic bachelor degree / the latest transcript Copy of Passport A valid health certification 4 (Four) 3 x 4 sized photographs

2. OIA staff will contact the intentioned Faculty/Study Program of the student related to the acceptance or refusal

of the admission (FO-UGMKUI- 01-8). 3. If the application is accepted by the Faculty/Study Program, OIA will send the student a letter of Acceptance on

the behalf of the University, while for his/her who is not accepted will be handed a Letter or Refusal. 4. OIA staff is organizing the Candidate’s study permit to Directorate General of Education (Dirjen DIKTI) where

then DIKTI forwarded a recommendation to the Planning and Cooperation of Foreign Affairs of Ministry of Education and Culture (BPKLN Kemdiknas). The study permit letter the will be issued not least in 2 months. 1. OIA staff will monitor the progress of the permission letter in DIKTI not least than 2 weeks after the

candidate’s documents sent out. 2. OIA staff will check the permission letter if the letter has not sent during 2 (two) months 3. The study permit for the candidate who is under G to G program and several particular institution

(according to BPKLN), will be issued by State Secretariat (SETNEG). 5. The study permit is used as the prerequisite of visa authorization. Since the visa authorization is valid for 2 (two)

months after it’s issued, the staff incoming permit will send Visa Authorization application to the Immigration in Jakarta in 3 months before the arrival schedule. The visa authorization will then be retrieved by OIA in a month after the documents sent.

6. As the Study permit and Visa Authorization completed, the OIA admission staff send the two letter to the

candidate student whether through email or fax As the candidate proposed a Visa to the Indonesia Embassy (KBRI/KJRI), he/she should come to Indonesia to submit his/herself to OIA, the next step is the admission staff will issued a student ID and a registration for to be handed to the Faculty/Study Program * Notes: For the applicants who want to take the semester started in August the registration can be done at least at the end of May. For those who want to take the semester started in February, the registration should be done at least at the end of November. These processes are intentioned so that the entire legalized formal procedure is completed at UGM in time.

P A G E 8

Do’s and Don’ts in Campus Life

Class and Courses Most recently all classes in the Faculty of Geogra-phy is being prepared to be delivered in English. In MPPDAS, the classes are held in English, some exceptional classes are still held in Bahasa Indo-nesia as most of the stu-dents are Indonesia. Nevertheless, the stu-dents still can be partici-pated in the learning process since the entire material are available in English though it’s some-times delivered in Bahasa.

In MPPDAS, Courses are brought in modules, which only take 3-4 weeks from the start and finish each modules with an examination. The ex-ercises and the field ex-cursion will be deter-mined during courses take. The class is started at 08.00-15.00 LT from Monday to Friday (five days a week). In most circumstances, the ex-amination will be depend on the Lecturer decision whether it will be brought as Individual/Group pres-

entation, Individual/Group paper and or di-rect exam in the class. The examination result of each modules is published whether in the noticed board or in the secre-tariat of the study pro-gram. The time gap be-tween each modules is limited to one week. Thus, in this time be-tween is used to accom-plish the tasks/assignments.

study.

Don’t wear non-sleeve shirts, T-shirts, short pants, and sandals in class-rooms and offices.

Don’ts

Don’t smoke in classrooms, offices, and public places.

Don’t be involved in political activities

Don’t work. Your purpose here is to

Office hours are from 7.15 am to 4 pm. However, when students need some ass istance, they should come be-tween 9am to 1 pm. This gives the staffs time to handle other routine tasks.

Kindly dress semi formally to attend lectures or to visit offices.

kindly dress formally if you are invited for events held in cam-pus.

DO’s

Please queue pa-tiently in order to be served by our cam-pus staffs. The staffs have to serve a lot of people and you will be helped as soon as possible.

F O R E I G N S T U D E N T G U I D E B O O K

Living in Yogyakarta P A G E 9 F A C U L T Y O F

nese culture. Borobudur and Prambanan templ, as well as Sultan Palace are of many tourist objects the tourist visit. Jogja is almost like a heaven for archeologist to learn about temples. Another enchanting tourist object is Malioboro Street (named after the legendary English

The “JOGJAKARTA never ending Asia” is a brand name of Jogjakarta (well known and can simply be called as Jogja) as a main second tourist destination city in Indonesia after Bali. Jogja Special Region is well known as the tourist destina-tion and the center of Java-

General Marlborogh) with the long walking-distance vendors selling their crafts along the side walk. In the harmony circumstances you will meet the real Javanese; tradition which is far from stressful metropolitan city.

not have a special dormitory for foreign students. Never-theless the students are of-fered with various choices of local dormitory where they can mingle with local students and also local residents of Yogyakarta with the range of price between $27-100 per month depends on the loca-

tion, facilities and size of room. These local dormito-ries are also surrounded by many kinds of warung, local small restaurant for students with cheap prices. As a spe-cial province, Yogyakarta has been one of the alternative for students to study culture as well as their major study.

The University is located in The Special Region of Yogya-karta, which has been widely known as a center of Javanese culture as well as a center of learning. It has 3,200,000 inhabitants, 511,000 of whom reside in the city of Yogya-karta. UGM at this moment does

Caption

describing

picture or

graphic.

Jogja the Special Region

The University is

located in The

Special Region of

Yogyakarta, which

has been widely

known as a center

of Javanese culture

as well as a center

of learning.

P A G E 1 0

Communication

Climate

Two seasons are occu-pied in Yogyakarta are wet and dry season. The weather in rainy season is often unpredictable, the sun still shines during the day anyhow it will rain in the afternoon. The city features a lengthy wet season run-ning from October until June and a short dry sea-son that only covers the

months of July, August and September. The city averages roughly 2200 mm of precipitation an-nually. Yogyakarta ex-periences particularly heavy rainfall from No-vember through April. In the dry season, the weather is quite com-fortable and sometimes could be very hot. How-ever, temperatures re-

main relatively constant throughout the course of the year, with average high temperatures at around 30 degrees Cel-sius and average lows at around 22 degrees Cel-sius.

internet cafe. The proc-ess of applying this facility is quite easy, to access the internet through a modem, an Indonesia SIM card (CDMA/GSM) is required. As the new SIM card is applied, a simple of personal registration is a mandatory step required for the first time used only. It is not necessary to have a post paid card as it

It’s recently developed that some local dormito-ries are equipped with Internet facility in each rooms. Most of students’ places are excluded with this facility and a common situation. Thus, to have your private internet access, the internet con-nection is accessible through modem, Wi Fi in a particular areas and

relatively more expensive for a short period used. Pre paid card is a safer and often a quite cheaper options. Certain GSM cards also equipped with internet, sms and call packets to make the communication more comfortable for their user.

Indonesia. A local lan-guage ‘Java’ is also often used by the local or the long stayed students in daily conversation.

English spoke person is also can be find around the city since Yogyakarta is familiar with it’s called as touristic city.

Since Yogyakarta is be-come the most study destination for Indone-sian coming all over the part of Indonesia, many students coming from different areas are basi-cally coming with their native tongues. Commu-nication amongst the students are with Bahasa

F O R E I G N S T U D E N T G U I D E B O O K

It’s recently

developed that

some local

dormitories are

equipped with

Internet facility

in each rooms.

Transportation

P A G E 1 1 F A C U L T Y O F

increasing. If you know how to ride a motorbike you can hire one in the city. Taxi's are also available and can be arranged according to the necessity since it’s quite ex-pensive to use Taxi.

Buses are the major form of public transportation here however their hours of op-eration is limited i.e. the

The city has an extensive system of public city buses, and is a major destination for inter-city buses to elsewhere on Java or Bali, as well as taxis, andongs, and becaks. Motorbikes are by far the most commonly used per-sonal transportation, with an increasing number of stu-dents in the city the number of the motorbikes is also

public busses operates at 06.00-18.00 and for Trans Jogja operates from 06.00-20.00 LT. If you take a bus beware of pickpockets.

P A G E 1 2

Over the decades

more and more

people have

moved to Yogya

from all over the

part of Indonesia

and now

Yogyakarta has

more diversity in

flavours

Gudeg is typical

Yogyakarta Cuisine

Foods and Drinks

Yogyakarta dishes are renowned for their sweetness. Over the decades more and more people have moved to Yogya from all over the part of Indonesia and now Yogyakarta has more diversity in flavours. There are many different kinds of interesting dishes, ranging from spicy to sweet and those fiery dishes that feel as though your throat has been ripped out. Because of

the high population of Chinese residents in Yogyakarta, their culinary delights have also fused into the cuisine available. But when in Yogya it is the street food that is the most delicious. Every night after the shops close, Lesehan vendors construct their tent-style warungs. It is great to sit on mats and get to know the locals whilst munch-ing away on some deli-cious Yogyanese food.

The food is cheap and there are the occasional wandering minstrels who will entertain you till the wee hours of the morn-ing. Also, all along Jalan Malioboro mats are laid out on the pavement where the patrons can sit and enjoy the kaki lima food cooked fresh.

vored Tempe sand-wiched with cake made of rice and ketan. Unique and filling!

Wedang Ronde, Of-ten served at night this warm ginger fla-vored drink is mixed with peanuts, tapioca cake, and kolang-kaling. Great for ex-tra warmth at night.

There are another variant of this snack where the green bean is substituted with black bean. Both are very tasty. Jadah Kali-urang, Don’t miss this if you are visiting Kali-urang. A sweet and spicy fla-

served with Sambel Goreng Krecek which is very spicy and hot.

Mie Goreng Jawa (Javanese Fried Noo-dles), Unlike Chinese Fried Noodles with its fish and pork fla-vour, Javanese Fried Noodles is lighter but sweeter with domi-nant shallot flavour.

Soto, Light and appe-tising this type of

soup is perfect as breakfast. Often served with Tempe, Perkedel and Liver Satay. Add a few drops of lime juice for extra flavor.

Bakpia Pathuk, An-other popular deli-cacy. Originated by Chinese settlers, Bakpia is basically a baked sweet green bean wrapped with special wrapping.

Nasi Gudeg, This is probably one of the most popular dish in Jogja. A plate of warm rice is served with a variety of dishes in-cluding chicken, boiled egg, tofu, and tempe cooked in thick coconut sauce, very sweet and slightly spicy. Very Jogja and a must taste. For added fla-vour, gudeg rice is

Bakmi

Goreng

Jawa

‘Fried

Noodle

Java’ is

best

serve

once it’s

hot

F O R E I G N S T U D E N T G U I D E B O O K

Living Cost P A G E 1 3 F A C U L T Y O F

A single student living in Jogja would need approxi-mately US$ 172 / month to meet basic living expenses such as boarding; (US$ 27, single room), food (US$ 95), daily fares, transportation (US$ 50), medical cover, and other necessites. It should be stressed, however, that these figures are all approxi-mate and how much you

actually spend will depend a lot on your personal life-style. Some people may be able to live moderately; oth-ers might find it hard to maintain their usual standard of living.

You will also need some money to follow interests beyond your academic stud-ies. If you have no plans to go out for cinema or cultural

event performances, Jogja itself has many ‘hidden’ inter-esting cultures and social aspects to be observed

It should be stressed,

however, that these

figures are all

approximate

and how

much you

actually

spend will

depend a lot

on your

personal life-

style

Bureau International Affairs

Faculty of Geography

Universitas Gadjah Mada

CNRD Coordination and Contact Person:

Dyah Fitria Dewi (Pipit)

Email:bkln@geo.ugm.ac.id

Mobile: +628164273864

Office/Fax: +62 274 589595

Bulaksumur 55281

Yogyakarta - Indonesia

http://geo.ugm.ac.id/

Find your way around the IWRM Masterprogram in Jordan

student handbook

Imprint

This handbook is written specifically for the students of the M.sc. IWRM course between the university of Jordan and Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Please do not sell it or use any part of it for any form of publication or public distribution, as it contains copyrighted material of the authors and un-copyrighted material from the Internet.

All the information is given to the best of our knowledge, from the most up-to-date sources at the time of writing, however we cannot guar-antee that it is still correct when you read this. We are always grateful for any comments or updates.

© ITT 2011/All photos are © Selmo, except on pages 4,9,10,12,14,24,41,42,48 Text & Layout: Parusie & Marc Haering

Thanks to... Mustafa, Khaldoon, Sil-ke, Andreas and Dr. Manar.

IntRoduCtIon

JoRdan and aMMan

Jordan - some basic info

before arriving

arriving at amman airport

orientation in amman

areas

transport in and around amman

Travel within Jordan

some tourists spots near amman

Guidebooks and maps

FoRMaLItIes

Residency/Visa

Scholarship and payments

German embassy list

Money

Postal Service

studYInG at JoRdan unIVeRsItY

Ju Campus - how to get there

orientation

services on campus

study resources

LIVInG

Getting a flat

Getting a mobile phone

shopping

Where to eat

Going out

Health and fitness

anneX 1 – embassies in amman

ANNEX 2 – Pharmacies, doctors & hospitals

ANNEX 3 – Contact persons & details

This little booklet is the informal companion of the “study handbook” and is written by a few of last year’s students of the IWRM program. You will not find any long-winded speeches about the importance of water management for the course of history, nor pages after pages of boring university regulations.

This booklet is designed purely to make your first semester here in Amman more enjoyable. If you keep it in your pocket at all times, it will help you find your way around, make a few things easier and serve as a kind of reference. It contains a lot of different information col-lected from our experiences of doing exactly what you are doing now: starting a new life in a new place (except for the Jordanians among you, of course). In that sense, this booklet also aims to save a lot of your time, because it passes on the kind of information that took us a long time to find out, often through trial and error. You will have the benefit that although the road might still be a little rough in some places, we have mostly paved it for you. So finally, it should give you more time to focus on the beautiful concept of IWRM, because it is important for the course of history!

Apologies to the Jordanians again, for whom a lot of this might be boring – they might want to focus on some parts of sections 4 and 5.

It should also be added, that this booklet is written mostly by two Germans with some as-sistance from our Jordanian colleagues, and although we will try to be as culturally neutral and sensitive as we can, forgive us if we fail at any point.

We hope you enjoy the read!Jordan and amman

introduction

basic info

Population: around 6.1 million (2004 census: 5.3 million)

Area: 89,342 km2

Capital: Amman (largest city, around 2 mio)

Main cities: Irbid (0.7 mio), Zarqa (0.5), Aqaba (0.1)

Admin. units: 12 muhafazat (governorates)

GDP: $ 28 billion (2005 estimate)

per capita: $4,900

Political system: Constitutional monarchy, with considerable parliamentary power

1921 “Transjordan” is given semi-autonomous status in the British Man-date of Palestine, under the rule of Prince Abdullah I of the Hashem-ite family (former ruling family of the Hejaz and the two holy cities)

1946 End of the Mandate – King Abdullah I proclaims the Hasemite King-dom of Jordan

1948 1st Arab-Israeli war; creation of the State of Israel; Jordan controls the West Bank and East Jerusalem (and annexes it in 1950)

1951 Abdallah I is shot in Jerusalem; his mentally ill son Talal rules briefl y

1953 18-year old Hussein becomes King

1967 Jordan joins Syria, Egypt and Iraq in the 2nd Arab-Israeli war; loos-es the West Bank; around 1 million Palestinian refugees in Jordan

1970 Internal fi ghting against armed Palestinian fedayeen; crisis nearly escalates with Syrian, Israeli and US involvement; by June 1971, all fedayeen are expelled from Jordan

1991 Jordan supports Iraq in Gulf War

1994 Following the Washington Declaration, the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty is signed on October 26th

1999 King Hussein dies; his son Abdullah II becomes king

2005 Nov 9th: three bombs explode in Amman, killing 57, wounding 115, “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” claims responsibility; number of Iraqi refugees is estimated at 1 million

• Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) drive economic growth, mostly tar-iff-free textile production for the US market (exports to US rose from $6.9 in 1997 to $661 million in 2002)

• since 2001: us-Jordanian Free trade Agreement, exploding exports further

• Tourism has about 10-12% of GDP

• Many wealthy immigrants/refugees from Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon have moved to amman because of the relative security and stability and have based their businesses there

• Many international NGOs for Iraq and Palestine are based in Amman

economy

historic background

(The above information is a summary of Wikipedia’s Jordan entry)

there are a few things worth sorting out before coming to Amman (if you are coming from abroad):

• get a lot of passport photos done – you will need quite a few in the various administrative processes – around 10 maybe

• if you would like to travel to Syria (only 3 hours away!) during your time in Amman, it’s advisable to get a (multiple entry) Syrian visa before coming to Jordan, especially for the Germans. This will make things a lot easier for you.

• Regarding what clothes to bring, remember that it will get really quite cold in winter and there might be snow, although it will be very hot when you arrive.

If you fly out of Jor-

dan with Royal Jorda-

nian, there is one useful

thing to know: RJ offers

check-in up to 36 hours

ahead of your flight at its

7th circle office, which

means you only have to

carry your hand luggage

to the airport and they do

the rest. They also offer

a free shuttle bus from

the 7th circle. For more

information, check this

website: www.qaia.gov.

jo/inner_en.php?id=34

or simply www.rj.com

before arriving

arriving at amman airportAmman’s “Queen Alia International Airport” lies about 35km south of Amman. Although it carried over 3 million passengers (and 1,500 tons of mail!) in 2006, it is not very big and you should have no problems to find your way around. There are two terminals, one for Royal Jor-danian and one for all other airlines.

Taxi rates from the airport are fixed (at 17.5 JD, early 2008), so don’t let anyone rip you off. The trip takes around half an hour and it might be worth sharing a taxi with somebody else, as most people will be going to central Amman.

There is also a public bus service for only 2 JDs (plus 50 qirsh per bag), which leaves outside the Terminal build-ing and goes to the 7th circle, then stops in several plac-es till its final destination at Mujamma’a ash-Shamaal (see later).

orientation in ammanAmman – as you might have noticed – is quite a hilly place. Historically, there are seven hills (jabal – jibaal), now there are in fact over 19, which gives you some idea of the recent growth that Amman has experienced. The most famous of these are Jabal Amman, Jabal al-Weibdeh and Jabal al-Hussein – well, there is of course also Jabal al-Qala’a, but that is inhabited mostly by the citadel (Qala’a) and the streams of tourists coming to visit it. To help you find your way around Amman, here is a simple guide to orienta-tion and a quick insight into the most important areas. You will find more detailed information about individual places later on in the “Living” section.

Both

th

e H

yatt

(below cen

tre) an

d

the In

tercontin

ental

are frequ

ent

sites

for conferen

ces and

official even

ts, also

on w

ater.

-90°orientation:

An easy w

ay to o

rientate yo

urself in

Am

man

is along tw

o m

ain axes, w

hich

are show

n o

n th

e map

: the “eig

ht circles”

axis (red) an

d th

e “Abdoun-U

niversity” axis (b

lue).

“Eig

ht circles axis” so

unds a little sp

iritual, m

aybe, b

ut it is sim

ply th

e east-west axis fro

m th

e first circle (D

uw

ar al-Aw

wal) o

n to

p o

f Jabal A

mm

an in

the east, to

the eig

hth

circle far in th

e west. [T

here are q

uite a few

oth

er circles in

Am

man

e.g. D

uw

ar al-Kilo, D

uw

ar al-Dakh

iliyeh, D

uw

ar al-Med

ina etc. an

d b

ecause th

ey are such

a com

mon w

ay of

distin

guish

ing lo

cation, o

ne o

ften ju

st says “al-Aw

wal” o

r “al-Med

ina”.]

1st an

d 2

nd

circles are quite sm

all (with

the fam

ous S

hew

arma R

eem at th

e 2nd), w

hile th

e 1st is th

e access to R

ainbow

street an

d h

as a few restau

rants an

d b

ars around.

Th

e 3

rd circle is m

uch

big

ger, h

as a majo

r street goin

g so

uth

-east tow

ards d

ow

nto

wn an

d o

ne h

eadin

g n

orth

-west to

-w

ard th

e Dakh

iliyeh circle. A

round it th

ere are several clubs an

d th

ree majo

r hotels:

• Le R

oyal, lookin

g like a g

iant oval sh

ip exh

aust, can

be seen

from

nearly everyw

here

• The In

tercontin

ental to

ward

s the 2

nd

• The G

rand H

yatt tow

ards th

e Dakh

ilieh

Th

e 4

th circle is im

portan

t for us IW

RM

studen

ts, becau

se the G

erman

embassy is a few

hundred

meters sou

th-w

est of it and you

will

pro

bab

ly go th

ere in th

e first few

weeks. T

he 4

th circle is w

here th

e “eight circles” axis cro

sses the “A

bdoun-U

niverity” axis an

d ju

st so

uth

of it is th

e stunnin

g n

ew A

bdoun B

ridge lead

ing to

the w

ealthy d

istrict of A

bdoun an

d th

e man

y clubs an

d b

ars aro

und A

bdoun circle.

The 5

th circle has tw

o huge hotels: the Four Season’s and the S

heraton.Betw

een th

e 6th

and 7

th circle, so

uth

(left) of th

e street lies S

weifi

yeh, a sh

oppin

g d

istrict.

Finally, th

e 7

th an

d 8

th circles are m

ostly traffi

c hubs w

ith th

e majo

r road

leadin

g so

uth

(there are tw

o th

at later join

), to

ward

s Mad

aba, th

e airport, th

e Dead

Sea, Petra an

d A

qab

a, and o

nly fro

m th

e 8th

: north

tow

ards Jerash

, Ajlo

un, Irb

id

and s

yria.

The “U

niversity-A

bdoun” axis g

oes fro

m A

bdoun in

the so

uth

via the 4

th circle to

the D

akhiliyeh

circle (the b

iggest circle

in cen

tral Am

man

, located

near th

e famous M

eridien

Hotel b

uild

ing an

d n

amed

after the W

izarat ad-D

akhiliyeh

- Interio

r M

inistry), th

en slig

htly n

orth

-west to

ward

the M

edin

a circle (called in

full: D

uw

ar al-Med

ina ar-R

iyadiyeh

- Sport C

ity Circle, b

ecause it is lo

cated at th

e corn

er of th

e Sport C

ity with

a stadiu

m, ru

nnin

g tracks, p

ools etc.) an

d u

p th

e “Uni-

versity street” tow

ard S

weileh

. This street ru

ns all alo

ng th

e left side o

f the u

niversity cam

pus, fro

m th

e hosp

ital in th

e so

uth

to th

e Mosq

ue in

the n

orth

.

Jabal Amman

This is the oldest part of Amman and one of its most beautiful, though beauty of course lies in the eye of the beholder. It is definitely the greenest part of town with many big old trees in the private gardens and along the streets.

As Amman’s central hill, it stretches from where is rises up from downtown east of the 1st circle to more or less the 4th circle. It has interesting demographics: the lower parts around the side of the hill, particularly in the east and south are inhabited by people of low-er middle class background, while the top part of the hill is the home of a much wealthier part of society, many of very old Jordanian fami-lies (some Royals, too), though there is also a fair share of foreigners in this pleasant part of town.

It is home to the famous “Rainbow Street”, which has just been completely re-paved with cobblestone, to create a new social centre. There are many places worth visiting in Jabal Amman, most of which are mentioned later, including the Royal Film Commission, Books@Café and Amigo’s.

Jabal al-Weibdeh (also: Jabal Luweibdeh)

If you are interested in Art, Jabal Weibdeh is the place for you. The largely French-influ-enced hill just south of Jabal Amman is home to most of the art galleries that Amman has to offer, among which Daret al-Funun is prob-ably the most famous. It also has a beautiful old mosque Masjid Killiyet ash-Sharee’a, and the second most famous old Falafel restaurant called Abu Mahjoub in some little side street downhill, east of the mosque. Good luck find-ing it, it’s worth it!

Downtown (Wust al-Balad)

This is the ‘heart’ of Amman, always busy and bustling, till early in the morning. It is maybe one of Amman’s most ‘down-to-earth’ places, in the sense that you see very few of the newly rich and more of the working population here. Full of shops of all kinds, it also hosts the very few tourist/souvenir shops that you will find in amman.

The central square of downtown is in front of

areas

Al-Hussein Mosque, more or less at the foot of Jabal Amman. From there, downtown spreads in three directions: north toward the Ro-man amphitheatre and Raghdan bus station (“al-Mahatta”); west to-wards Wadi Saqra, with many little streets squeezed in between Jabal Amman and Jabal al-Qala’a; and a little south towards Ra’s al-‘Ayn, the former spring that supplied Amman with drinking water (a loooong time ago!). The street going south has great shops for beautiful material and carpets, some for second hand shoes and many shops selling equip-ment for bedus and their tents. the two streets going west are lined with shops selling DVDs (at 1JD per disk!), shoes, bags etc. and on the right side is the “gold market”. There are also a few nice restaurants (see below), several tourist hostels and some internet cafes, because this is where the few backpackers stay, who come to Amman. There is a lot to discover in downtown!

Abdoun

Without a doubt, the wealthiest area of amman is abdoun. Just the houses will tell you – there are some crazy big villas here. Worth a visit just for the architecture! It also has a good number of cafés, restaurants and clubs, mostly located around the Abdoun circle, just after the bridge. These are, however, of the more expensive type.

Shmeisani

Shmeisani is mostly a business/banking/office area, though it also has quite a few hotels, bars and res-taurants and a special doctor’s area. You can also find the Ministry of Wa-ter and Irrigation here!

Jabal al-Hussein

Jabal Hussein has more clothes

shops in one street than you will ever see in your life. It is mainly a shopping area for the middle classes. Just downhill to the east lies Mukhayyam al-Hussein – one of Amman’s three Palestinian refu-gee camps, this one hosting almost 30,000 refugees.

Sweifiyeh

Like downtown, this area has many shops and restaurants, but it is very different, because unlike downtown, Sweifiyeh is for the wealthy parts of society. Here you can find many of the big us fast food chains for food and many international brands for clothing stores, including ZARA, Mango, Massimo Dutti, Bossini, Daniel Hechter and others.

the main shopping street here is called Shari’ al-Wakalaat (near the 7th circle), which has just been turned into a pedestrian zone.

Travel within Jordan

Depending on how adventurous and how rich you are, there are various modes of transport within amman...

• Taxi (not as cheap as in other places – 1-5 JD per trip, usually with meter)

• “Service” (collective taxis go-ing on specific routes, which you just have to figure out by asking – around 0.2 JD)

• Bus (directions written on the bus, but ask to be sure, or to find out from where they leave – around 0.2-0.5 JD)

• Going by bicycle is NOT advis-able in Amman!!

A lot of buses pass by the university and you can even have trouble get-ting onto one during busy semester times, when leaving the university, because they’re so full sometimes.The main internal bus station in Am-man is called Raghdaan, also known just as al-Mahatta. It is often the first or final station for buses that go to places in or around Amman, like Madaba, Baqa’a, Salt etc.

Renting a car in Jordan can be as cheap as 15 JD/day for a small Korean car. Most rental car places (including international brands like Hertz, Avis etc.) are on Hada’iq Ma-lik Abdallah street, west of the Me-dina circle, although there are also some on the main street that runs from the university up west towards Sweileh.

there are service cars to many major towns inside Jordan, to the Israeli border or to Damascus for example. Services to the Israeli border (King Hussein Bridge) leave from Mujamma’a ash-Shamaal. To Damascus they leave from ‘Ab-dali, the former main bus station in downtown Amman; there are a number of service agents on the left side as you come up the hill and the trip usually costs between 10-15 JD/person and takes about 3-4 hours.

Public buses go to all major cities in Jordan, like Aqaba (5hrs), Irbid (2hrs), Madaba (1hr), Ma’an, etc. for around 5 JD or less, depending on the distance. the two main bus stations for these are:

• Mujamma’a ash-Shamaal (for bus-es to the northern governorates)

• Mujamma’a al-Janub (for buses to the southern governorates)

There are also a number of private bus companies that offer inexpen-sive trips (usually <10 JD one way) several times a day to places like Wadi Rum and Petra as well as to Aqaba, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, Tel aviv and other destinations.

JETT

(Jordan Express Tourist Transport) is a famous one and has the following telephone number: +962 6 562 2430. The offi ces are located in Abdali. Another company is “Ath-Thiqqa” (Trust).

Train

There is a train going along the old Hejaz railway line from amman up to damascus. the station in amman is just north of Raghdan bus station

The route down south towards Medina is no longer oper-ated, unfortunately. A good website for all kind of infor-mation on overland trips around the Middle East is “The man in seat 61…”, which has for example information on the train from Amman to Damascus, apart from many other useful tips and links:

www.seat61.com/Jordan.htm

some tourist spots near amman and around Jordan

Amman itself has not got all that much to offer with regard to sightseeing. as was men-tioned earlier, it is quite a young town, despite its ancient roots. the two obvious destinations are the Roman Amphitheatre and the Qala’a (citadel) in the centre of town. Both also have good museums (make sure to pay the student price!). The citadel is also a nice place to climb up to at night, when all the tourists are gone and it’s officially closed.

some tourist spots near amman and around Jordan

Around Amman, there are a number of places worth visiting. As-Salt, a beautiful, old Jor-danian town, can be reached by one of the many buses that pass the university and head north-west; a bus to Madaba – the town with magnificent ancient mosaics from Roman and Byzantine times – passes by the fourth circle, heading south over the abdoun bridge.

We will not go into detail about the places to visit in Jordan, as any guidebook can tell you about these. There are several thousand his-toric sites in Jordan!

Recommended highlights with special relevance to waterWadi Mujib – amazing wadi with perennial fl ow of warm water through a breathtaking canyon of red stone towards the Dead Sea, with underground caves and a big waterfall – a MUST for IWRM students! Go before it gets cold or closed for winter.

Azraq “wetlands” reserve – a sad sight showing the reckless practice of un-sustainable groundwater abstraction and a little project trying to relieve the damage done

guidebooks and maps

Recommended highlights with special relevance to water

The main tourist destinations are:

Petra, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea, Jer-ash, Madaba, Mount Nebo, Crusader castles (Ajloun, Kerak and Shobak), desert castles and Aqaba

Less visited tourist sites:

• Umm Qays (ancient Gadara, one of the decapolis cities)

• Mafraq, Umm al-Jimal and sur-rounding basalt villages

• Jawa (stone age town near the Syrian border, needs 4x4)

• hidden desert castles (difficult to access, but worth the trip, e.g. Qasr Usaykhim and Uweinid near Azraq or Qasr Tuba further south)

there are hundreds of guide-books for Jordan, of course. These are the popular ones:

• The Rough Guide to Jordan (edi-tion 2006)

• Lonely Planet: Jordan (2003 and 2006)

• Jordan Globetrotter Travel Pack (2007)

in German:

• Reise know-how: Jordanien (2005)

• Marco Polo Jordanien (2006)

• dumont kunstführer Jordanien (2007 – keine praktischen Infos, dafür mehr Geschichte)

Maps

Getting good maps of Jordan or am-man is not that easy. here are some tips:

One of the best physical maps of Jordan is published by the “world mapping project” in cooperation

guidebooks and maps with the German travel publisher “Reise-know-how”. It is a very good rip- and waterproof map at 1:400 000 resolution (the highest you can find) with many useful details and information. It can easily be bought through amazon or directly through their website (www.reise-know-how.de) for €8.90.

They now also offer their maps for PDA systems etc. at www.stadtplan-werk.de/bs/index.php

For maps of Amman, ask in book-shops or hotels – the bookshops opposite the university offer some, for example.There is a Jordanian mapping project that provides good online maps of Amman. It’s called “click2spot”, and has a number of cool options including some 360º views, simplified maps of specific areas and a lot of location info in-tegrated into the maps. www.click2spot.jo/maps.jsp some interesting maps for both Jordan and Amman can also be found on a Jordanian doctor’s website: www.layyous.com/jordan/jordan_maps.html (here you can also find the map that is printed on the back of the booklet)

Finally, the ACOR library has a very elaborate map section, too.

A big problem with maps of Am-man is that the official names of streets, as they are printed on maps, are often (or most of the time) differ-ent from the names people actually use. Good luck!

Residency in Jordan

as a student at the Jordan univer-sity, you will all get a Jordanian resi-dency for one year (iqama sanawi-yeh). The process of getting this residency is a little easier for Arabs than it is for Germans. But let’s look at it in general fi rst:

Upon arriving at the airport, you need to purchase a visa, which will give you a 2-week stay permit, with-in which time you have to register at your local police station. In order to then get the residency, you need four things:

• Passport photos (around 4, but take more to be safe)

• Rental contract from your landlord

• Results of the medical test (the Water Centre staff will help you with this)

• Letter from the university (once you are registered as student)

For the Arabs, the fi rst three should be enough to get the residency, the Germans need all four. Once you leave in Feb/March next year, be aware that the residency will expire if you don’t enter Jordan within 6 months.

Visa to Germany

This is for the Arab students, who have to get a German visa for the 2nd semester in Cologne.

the most important note here is: start the visa application process early! Usually this takes 3-4 weeks, but could take longer, so plan enough time for this. Ideal would be to start

in early January. You can download both the list of documents required and the application form from the German Embassy’s website:

www.amman.diplo.de

Scholarship and Payments

this section is to give you advice on how to receive your monthly schol-arship from the daad and how to get money back from your registra-tion payments to Cuas.

Your scholarship

In order to receive the scholarship money every month, you need to have a bank account either in Ger-many or in Jordan. as soon as you have passed on your bank account details, your money will be trans-ferred automatically. The process is different for Germans and Arabs, though:

for the Germans: please send your bank account details to Mr. Stark as soon as possible – your money will be transferred straight from the daad in bonn

for the Arabs: for you, the money will be transferred through the Ger-man embassy, so within the fi rst week after your arrival in Amman, you should set up a bank account with a Jordanian bank (e.g. the Cairo-Amman bank on campus) and then send your account details to the responsible person at the Ger-man embassy. because this process might take a little time, you will re-ceive your fi rst instalment as a cheque from the German embassy, when you go to visit them in the 1st week.

Payments at CUAS & the “Mobil-itätsbeitrag”

Although you are exempt from pay-ing study fees at JU as well as at Co-logne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), we have to pay the regis-tration fee at CUAS for the last two semesters (in the case of the Arabs) and for all three semesters (in the case of the Germans). You will have to transfer this sum (around 160 Euro per semester) to CUAS before the beginning of the respective se-mester. However, this sum includes the so-called “Mobilitätsbeitrag” (mobility share), i.e. the public transport ticket for greater Cologne. Obviously it doesn’t make sense to pay this for the semesters that you are not actually in Cologne (1st and 3rd), so you can request it back once you have paid the full amount (this is a bit of German bureaucracy for you to get used to). The form to re-quest this Mobilitätsbeitrag back can be found on the following website:

h t t p : / / w w w . v e r w a l t u n g . f h -koe ln .de/organ isat ion/dezer-natesg/dezernat3/sg31/service/studium/u/01219.php

German embassy list

This is only relevant for the Germans: in the German Embassy in Amman, there is a list of all the Germans in the country, with emergency contact details etc. – it’s advisable to add your name to this. One of you could organise this for all in the first weeks after arrival. When you visit the embassy in the 1st week, you could ask someone there about this.

The embassy details can be found in the list of embassies in Annex 1.

Money

The national currency is the Jorda-nian Dinar (JD). 1 JD = 100 qirsh (piasters) = 1000 fils

This is a little confusing and some people often mix up qirsh and fils. A service might cost e.g. 150 fils = 0.15 Jd

At the time of writing (July 2008), 1 JD = 0.89 EUR or 1.41 US Dollars. You can always check the most re-cent exchange rate on websites like www.xe.com

Postal Service

The Jordan Post is very reliable, though it does sometimes happen that things don’t arrive. As a general rule: don’t use mail boxes around town, always take your letters to the post office. Each region has a post office, though only the main offices offer all services (for example ex-press mail) You can find a list of all post offices on the very good Jordan Post website: www.jordanpost.com.jo

The main post office is downtown in Prince Mohamed Street, a few meters up the road from Mat’am Hashem and it is open later than the others. If you expect to receive mail during your time in Jordan, the saf-est way is probably to get a P.O. box with a little key at one of these post offices (or at the one in university). It costs only around 8 JD till the end of the current year.

JU Campus – how to get there

The university is located relatively far out in the north-west of Amman, in a district called Jubeiha, near Sweileh. It is quite a big campus with a lot of green – from the air it looks like a big park. To walk from one end to the other could well take half an hour. apart from the various depart-ments, institutes and administrative buildings, the campus also includes a stadium, a hospital, a mosque and some female dormitories.

To get to the university from Jabal Amman or other locations in the centre, there are various options for buses and services, but you have to fi nd those out locally, depending on where you live. A major station for buses leaving to the university is at the north-eastern corner of the da-khiliyeh circle, from where they go straight to the various gates of the university. You can also take a taxi, of course.

To get to the Water Centre, you will have to get off at the “Zira’a” (zira3a = agriculture) gate. (But take care: the Ministry of Agriculture is also on the street leading to the university, so don’t get out at the ministry if the guy in the bus shouts zira’a!) It is usually the second university gate that buses stop at (Tibb = medicine is the fi rst). When you got out of your bus or taxi, walk through the gate and along the right side of the Higher Studies Faculty that is ahead of you past the fi elds and green houses of the Faculty of Agriculture, which you are walking towards. The Water Centre is on the 2nd fl oor of the Faculty, in the far back. Although you can enter through the Faculty entrance, it’s easier to use the Wa-ter Centre’s offi cial entrance: take a right along the tree-lined street

for about fi fty meters, till there are stairs leading uphill on your left, alongside the Faculty building. Now just up the stairs and at the top take a left and another left and you’re there. Welcome to your academic home for the next seven months!

Orientation

It is easiest to fi nd your way around the JU campus along its central axis, which goes from the clock tower (the campus centre) all the way down south to the Faculty of Medi-cine. You’ll be walking up and down this street a lot during your time in Amman, as most of the things you’ll need are located somewhere along this long, tree-lined street.

You should be given a map of the University when you arrive; if not, you can get one in the International Students’ Offi ce in the 2nd fl oor of the Student Affairs building behind the Cairo-amman bank.

Also useful is the link to a featured Google Map at the bottom of the Language centre’s website: http://ujlc.ju.edu.jo/services on the Ju campus.

Ju campus in Jubeiha - the yellow circle is the wa-ter centre. at the bottom left you see the “Duwar al-Jami’a”.

Coming from the city cen-ter, follow the university road until you reach the uJ campus to your ride side. Get out at agricultur-al gate (baab al seraa), it is the second gate before reaching the mane gate.

Tell the guard that you are going to the water center to see dr. Manar Fayyad.Once inside, take a turn to the ride pass by the green houses to your left. At the end of the street, turn right and pass the faculty of agriculture.

Behind the building, to left walk up the stairs. At the end of the stairs, turn left and you will fi nd your new home :)

other services

Post Office – Next to the row of shops near the main cafeteria. It might be worth registering a P.O. box address here, since you will be in the univer-sity every day, but you might move from one area to another in amman.

Royal Jordanian Office – Next to the Post Office is an office of the nation-al carrier with friendly staff.

bank of Jordan – around the corner from the Post Office, it has a cash machine and normal bank services.

Cairo-amman bank – Located diag-onally across the open space / park area from the bank of Jordan.

study Resources

now we come to the section that should be most important for you: where to find resources for studying about water and IWRM. one of the main goals of this booklet is to give you more time to read/learn more about water and its related fields and to tell you where to find the re-sources for this.

As was mentioned, the issue of re-sources in this course still needs some improvement and we will in-clude some tips what you could do for this. In general with regard to books, we found very little useful material in the university, though it must be said that we did not fully explore all options and that is some-thing we recommend you to do, for your own benefit and for those who come to study IWRM after you. there is however good access to many very useful online scientific journals through any JU internet connection.

main library

JU’s Main Library is located right at the main entrance, opposite the flashy administration building. It has to be said that we hardly used this li-

food

There are a number of small cafete-rias around the campus, serving cof-fee, tea, soft drinks and sandwich-es; one is just up the stairs from the Water Centre, in the Engineer-ing Building. The biggest and most popular one of these is in the row of shops and offices in the campus cen-tre; it serves pizza, shawerma and various sandwiches, despite hot and cold drinks. Like in the other small cafeterias you have to pay first at the counter, then take the receipt to get your food. There are also some small coffee-stands around campus.

JU Main Cafeteria is the only place on campus serving ‘real’ food, i.e. not fast food, sandwiches or pizza. Located behind the main library, it’s cheap and reasonably good, serving (more or less) traditional Jordanian food. There is a student section (on the right) and a professor’s section (left) – the latter has slightly better food with table service and slight-ly higher prices and is accessible to students either after 2pm or if you’re brave enough to just pretend to be a professor.

Outside the campus, opposite the main gate, there are also a num-ber of fast food chains and restau-rants, of which Lubnani Snack is quite good and very popular and has great fresh juice cocktails.

shops

Near the main cafeteria, there are a number of small shops in a row, sell-ing mostly sweets, soft drinks, juic-es, crisps and newspapers. Outside the main gate, there are a number of shops for similar things, but also for stationary stuff and more sub-stantial food. Opposite the main gate there is a whole commercial centre specialised on student require-ments: restaurants and fast food to the right, bookshops, stationary, copy shops and internet cafes to the left.

brary because we simply didn’t know if there was any relevant material there. a brief inspection of the eng-lish-language material didn’t reveal much promising results – it looked mostly old and the water stuff very engineering-based.Nevertheless, we would encourage you to check prop-erly what there is. One of you could go and speak to the employees there and get them to print out for exam-ple a list of all the titles that have the word “water” in them, which we were told they are able to do. This would be a serious improve-ment, to at least have an idea what there is and whether our quick judgement was prejudiced or not.

engineering library

The library of the Department of Engineering is located right above the little cafeteria hardly 100m up-hill from the Water Centre. Go up the stairs at the back of the cafe-teria and up to the first floor. One of us went there to check on books related to water. There are quite a lot. Most are rather old (60s, 70s & 80s), but could be useful, especially for topics such as water treatment, sanitation, supply and storage.

faculty of agriculture postgrad library

This is a big room located exactly below your classroom. There are many journals here, though none newer than about 1995 and togeth-er with the fewer books they have, these are mostly about water for ag-riculture, irrigation etc. This did not seem very useful when we checked it, but it would be worth checking again.

water centre resources

because the resource situation was generally rather poor with regard

to books, some professors started buying the textbooks to their mod-ules and leaving them in the Water Centre. This should be continued for you, too, to accumulate a good little library with the most relevant and important titles. In addition to that we left a number of leaflets, fly-ers etc. from various water projects in Jordan, Syria and Egypt that we collected over out time there in the Centre. These give good practical examples of what you will be learn-ing and can serves as points of con-tact, too.

Furthermore, the Water Centre has been given a digital agriculture li-brary from a Canadian university with around 50 CDs containing full articles of a great number of agri-culture-related journals from 1995 till 2005. Many of these are relevant to Water Management and the soft-ware should be installed on one of the PCs available in the computer room. Else ask the staff about this.

university-based online journal access

This is really the saving grace of JU with regard to resources: if you log in through any Ju internet connec-tion (i.e. wireless or at one of the provided PCs), you can access a large number of scientific journals online – to do with water or any-thing else – for free. You should be automatically signed in as Jordan University, especially if you use any of the major journal search engines:

www.sciencedirect.com

www.springerlink.com

www.elsevier.com

www.ingentaconnect.com (more so-cial sciences)

If you find an article on one of these, but you are not allowed to down-load it free of charge, it is always worth checking the title on Google, as it might be available on another website for free. The famous jour-nal “Water Policy” is not available, for example, but in such cases you might be able to negotiate with the Water Centre to convince the uni-versity to add this or other ones to their subscription… well, it would be worth trying, at least.

other options

There are several places for resourc-es other than those at Ju:

Abdel Hamid Shoman Public Library. located in Jabal Amman, between 1st & 2nd circles, opposite the Iraqi embassy; with copying service and free wireless internet access; the phone number is 5679166

IFPO library. the Institut Français du Proche Orient (see below for more details) might well have one of the best libraries on Water Man-agement in Amman. Especially on

political and economic topics re-lating to water management, it is well-endowed, as well as with re-gard to titles on the water aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ACOR library. the American Centre for Oriental Research (more details below) has a large library. The web-site also has a list of other libraries in Amman: www.bu.edu/acor/libot-her8d.html

We have compiled a list of these ti-tles, which is too big to insert here, but we will try to install a copy at the Water Centre or you could contact one of us. For practical examples, reports and studies, you can search the websites of the very many or-ganisations that are involved in wa-ter issues or that are implementing water projects in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries. Here is a selection of water-related links, which will get you well on your way:

german agencies:

GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) www.gtz.de

KFW(Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) www.kfw.de

DED (Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst) www.ded.de

BGR (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften u.Rohstoffe)www.bgr.bund.de

european Agencies:

european Water Initiative www.euwi.net

euro-Mediterranean Information system on know-how in the Water sector www.emwis.net

MEDA Water Programme www.medawater-rmsu.org

Water Information system for europe http://water.europa.eu/

UN agencies:

un Water www.unwater.org

Fao Water www.fao.org/nr/water/

Aquastat www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stm

Water for Life decade www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/

World Water Assessment Programme www.unesco.org/water/wwap/

International Hydrological Programme www.unesco.org/water/ihp/

WHO – Water Sanitation & Health www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia www.escwa.un.org

United Nations University – Network on Water, Environment and Health www.inweh.unu.edu

UNEP - Freshwater www.unep.org/themes/freshwater/

other links:

Global Water Partnership www.gwpforum.org

World Water Council www.worldwatercouncil.org

International Water Association www.iwahq.org

The World Commission on Dams www.dams.org

RAMSAR Convention on Wetlands www.ramsar.org

International Water Law Project www.waterlaw.org

Global Environmental Facility – GEF www.gefweb.org

Water Alternatives Journal www.water-alternatives.org

Stockholm International Water Institute http://www.siwi.org

Worldbank Water Programme http://go.worldbank.org/TWIJVNM470

WCa Infonet http://www.wca-infonet.org/iptrid/infonet/index.jsp

Water Science Glossary of Terms http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/dictionary.html

This chapter aims at giving you an easy start into Amman’s everyday life, trying to answer questions like where to live, what to eat and of course: where to go out at night! Especially during the summer months, Amman has quite a few options to spend the warm summer nights outside in pedestrian areas, on roof terraces of cafes, in open-air cinemas or on artist markets.

getting a fl at

Unless you already have arranged a fl at before your arrival in Amman, the Water Centre will arrange a place in a dormitory near the university for you.

depending on the standard and price of this dormitory you can choose to stay there or to just use it for the fi rst few weeks till you fi nd some-thing else – in the latter case try to pay on weekly basis or no more than a month in advance. Many of us moved out of our dormitory after a month, though some also stayed the whole semester. If you choose to fi nd a fl at in Amman, no matter where and how you will choose to live, fi rst consider the following im-portant points:

Many landlords have established rules of conduct for the properties they rent. Curfews after 9 pm, no visits from friends (not only boy- and girlfriends) and no consumption of alcohol, to name just a few prohibi-tions, are not a rarity, especially in dorms around the university. Make sure you know about these rules be-fore you sign a contract. Make sure you obtain a written rental contract with the address/location of your fl at, the date you moved in and the landlord’s signature. You will need this to get your residency.

another important thing you have to check is if your fl at is “winter proof”. You really tend to neglect this issue when looking at nice rooms in the summer. however temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees Celsius inside the room from december to February are not fun to live in! As diesel prices are constantly rising, it is important to know e.g. if diesel for a central heating is included in the rent or not, or if the hot water is connected to the heating or separate. In the fi rst case you might only have hot water for 1-2 hours in the evening, when

the heating is on. More preferable is to have a separate electric boiler. Further options for heating are elec-tric heaters, air conditionings and gas ovens. In all cases you have to check what is there, if it is suffi cient and who covers the costs. the basic rule of thumb: the bigger your fl at and the more windows you have, the more you will freeze in winter! Double-glazing is very rare in Am-man.

where to live?

Jabal Amman, Jabal Weibdeh and shmeisani are maybe the most pop-ular places for students and foreign-ers to live, though many also live around the university, but of course you can fi nd fl ats all over Amman.

Jabal Amman and Jabal al-Weibdeh are the oldest residential areas of Amman, where you can still fi nd old villas with beautiful gardens here and there. On Google Earth they are almost the only areas in Am-man that will appear at least a little green. Major advantages of living in these areas are the nice and quiet environment, the walking distance to downtown and the international feel with a number of nice cafés, bars, restaurants, art galleries and bookshops. Of relative disadvantage is the long way to university (be-tween half an hour and one hour are quite normal, depending on traffi c), the relatively bad public transport and the diffi culty to fi nd a fl at/room at reasonable price for a short pe-riod of time.

If you want to avoid the long travel time to uni, or fi nd a less expensive fl at, try to fi nd one in the surround-ings of the university. there are a lot of rooms and fl ats available in Sweileh and Jubeiha, north and east of the campus and there’s also con-stant new construction in that area. the infrastructure in terms of inter-net cafes, restaurants and super-

markets is quite good, although you will be relatively far from the cultural centre of amman.

prices

The differences between prices don’t always depend on the living area you choose, but they differ very much from offer to offer and can sometimes be negotiated. A typical range is from 150 Jd to 250 Jd per month for a nice room in a shared flat or small studio. Rooms further out could be as little as 100 JD, while a nice single apartment in Jabal Weibdeh could cost you over 400 JD a month. It might be easier to find something, if you pair up and look for two-bedroom apartments. usu-ally, rooms are furnished and elec-tricity and water are included in the monthly rent. This is not necessarily the case for gas and diesel, which might amount to an additional 150 JD per month for a normal size flat during the winter months!

furniture

Although rooms are usually fur-nished, you might be missing some furniture items. In this case there are a number of good 2nd hand fur-niture shops around amman - most-ly in two areas:

Sweileh - there are some on the road from JU to Sweileh itself, but most of them are located on a road parallel to and uphill from the road leading from Duwar as-Sweileh to-ward as-Salt.

downtown - about 1km south of the Hussein Mosque there are sev-eral stores and something like a 2nd hand furniture market on a large open space. Of the two ma-jor streets there, each taking traf-fic in one direction only, it is located on the street heading north toward downtown.

how to find a room

there are ads in the newspapers (weekly: Al-Waseet, Al-Momtaz; daily: Ar-Ra’i, Al-Ghad, Ad-Dustoor & Jordan Times), though rarely for shared flats. Other ways of finding a flat include: Walk from door to door in an area you like and ask shop owners or people in the street if they know about any available flats/rooms. Look for plates and signs on balconies or windows indicating a room for rent. even if the adver-tised room is often already taken, the landlord might know about other rooms that are still free. Look for notes or leave a note at the notice-board in Books@Cafe (this is the most popular board for flats, though there are other bookstores, too), or put a note up in JU’s Language Center, the French Cultural Centre (Weibdeh) or other places in the uni-versity or around town.

a second hand furniture market in downtown amman.

Finally, online platforms like face-book with relatively strong commu-nities of internationals living in Am-man might be helpful. If you are in a hurry to move out of the dormitory or want to live somewhere else from the beginning, below are a few good options to start with in Amman, be-fore you find your own place. For all of these it might help if you say

View from a

dormitory room

in Jubeiha.

that you are doing a course with the GTZ at Jordan University (not 100% true, but the GTZ is well-known and respected).

IFPO(Institut Francais du Proche Orient)

this is a French research and educa-tion centre very near the 3rd circle in a very nice area with some com-fortable, nice rooms for rent. Rooms are available for 100 JD/month (or 6 JD/day), including free (wireless) Internet, shared bathroom/shower, living room and kitchen and a wash-ing machine. Although there are usually rooms available, it is rec-ommended to contact them a few weeks in advance. And usually the maximum stay period is one month.

Other advantages of living here are IFPO’s very good library on wa-ter management (mentioned above) and the good availability of taxis around the IFPO!

Contact: Leila El Jechi

email:l.eljechi@ifporient.org

Tel:+962 (0)6 4611 171/

4640 515 /4611 872

Deutsch Evangelisches Institut für Altertumskunde im Heiligen Land (DEI – German Protestant Institute)

Similar arrangements to the IFPO, though more comfortable with a big garden (summer!) and closer to the university, but also more expensive: 240 JD/month, 75/week or 12/day.

Contact: Jutta Häser

email: gpia@go.com.jo

American Centre of Oriental Re-search

This one is maybe more like a hotel: rather luxurious and just opposite the university, equipped with a cook and breakfast & lunch included in the price: 490 JD/month or 17 JD/day; maybe you can negotiate a stu-dent price, though.

Free wireless internet, en-suite, large double rooms, TV (some even DVD player), weekly cleaning, large library over two floors (worth check-ing for water books!), washing for 4 JD/load.nwww.bu.edu/acor/

getting a mobile phone

You can get a Jordanian sIM card at almost any of the one million little phone stores all over Amman. There are several providers, of which om-niah, orange and zain are maybe the most popular.

In general, for making calls home (e.g. to Lebanon or Germany), it is advisable to use either one of the little phone shops or internet call services (e.g. Skype), which are much cheaper than using your mo-bile phone.

Local stores and markets

Most likely you will have a little mini-market somewhere near wherever you will live, which should serve most of the basic needs, although probably not much fresh produce like fruit or veg-etables.

Central fruit & vegetable markets/sooqs can be found in many parts of town, including downtown around Hussein Mosque (a little towards the north), in Jabal Hussein Camp and in Mukhayyam Wahidaat.

Supermarkets

There are a number of large super-markets in Amman, including big in-ternational ones like Carrefour and Safeway. Here is a small list:

Carrefour in City Mall

safeway four stores: shmeisani (beginning of Gardens St., near Me-dina circle), Jubeiha, 7th circle and Muqabalain (wholesale)

Cozmo at the 7th circle, opposite safeway

C-Town several stores: 7th circle, at Amman Mall, Shmeisani, Jabal hussein

Stop & Buy Store Jabal al-Weibdeh at Duwar Paris

Haboob between 1st and 2nd circle, and other locations

Malls

Sometimes it seems like going to malls is the new favorite pastime of Ammanians… and there’s a new mall opening every few months. The maybe biggest one is just be-ing stamped out of the ground in Abdoun, opposite the Blue Fig Res-taurant.

Amman Mall is the oldest of the big malls, built in 2000 at Duwar al-Waha (south-west of the univer-sity circle). Mecca Mall and City Mall (with Carrefour) are new and fancy with all kinds of shops, food courts and entertainment, but far out: north of the 8th circle, on the right side of the road leading to Irbid. Abdoun Mall is a smaller one in the west of abdoun. Most of these have websites for more detailed informa-tion on

Shops

For “high-street shopping” for clothes etc. apart from the malls, the best place is Shari’ al-Wakalaat in Sweifi-yeh, a big Western-style pedestrian shopping street. Some other places for shopping are indicated in the “ar-eas” section of the first chapter.

You can imagine that there are thousands of bars and restaurants in amman. We will not try to list the best hundred; just a few that we have liked… you will have to make your own survey of them.

where to go?

Mat’am Hashem is probably the most famous restaurant in Jordan, a very simple and cheap, but excellent falafel and humus place. You HAVE to try it! Located right in downtown, everybody knows it, so there is no chance you won’t find it.

Mat’am al Quds (4630168 ) is also in downtown and also not expensive. But it serves a much larger variety of food, including famous Jordanian dishes like Mansaf, Magloobeh or Musakhan.

Abu Mahjoub – falafel in Weibdeh (see above).

Shawerma Reem is supposedly Am-man’s best Shawerma shop and sometimes you can find a good 20 people waiting there at 3 in the morning.

Shawerma Aalia is only a few hun-dred meters away, to the 3rd circle and down the street on the right – less crowded and bigger (maybe even better?) shawermas. Also has shops in other places.

Falafel al-Quds is another famous Falafel place, on Rainbow Street.

Reem al-Bawadi (5515419) is may-be the most famous ‘traditional’ res-taurant in Amman, where you can sit under Bedu tents outside, with great Arabic food in a beautiful set-ting.

Fakhr el-Din (4652399 ) is known as an excellent Lebanese restau-rant between 1st & 2nd circles, in a side street to the north. Famous and expensive, you’ll eat with princes, ministers and actors.

Fish restaurant – not sure if it has a name – it’s a tiny, excellent res-taurant, maybe the only one for fish in Amman. You can also buy fresh fish here or order the cooked fish meals for take-away. BUT: it’s hard to find: located in a very small side alley only accessible on foot. From

Mat’am Hashem, cross the street, walk left and turn right into one of the small alleys there. Ask around.

three Yemeni restaurants can be found along the street lining the university to the north. Just a few meters left if you exit from the north exit. They’re cheap, good food and nice atmosphere, especially when sitting on the floor.

traditional arabic restaurants

Western and international restaurants

Wild Jordan (4633542) is a centre of the Royal Society for the conserva-tion of nature. apart from being a Restaurant/Café with unique archi-tecture and maybe the best views over old Amman, it has a shop sell-ing natural products & crafts from Jordan and an information centre (e.g. info about hiking/camping in Jordan’s natural reserves).

Whispers (5921850) between 5th and 6th circle is famous and popular with a special salad bar.

Vinaigrette (5620528) is a cool “Sal-ad and Sushi bar” on the 7th floor of Al-Qasr Hotel in Shmeisani with great views.

Cinco de Mayo is a good Mexican restaurant in the Intercontinen-tal Hotel on the 3rd circle. It also has a famous Lebanese restaurant called Burj al-Hammam (4641361 for both).

Kashmir (4659520) is a good, though expensive Indian restaurant near the 3rd circle.

Caserecchio (5934772/3) is a good Italian restaurant / Pizzaria at Ab-doun circle; a little pricey.

China (4638968) is a really good and cosy Chinese restaurant with nice decoration and staff near Rain-bow Street, up the hill from Books@.

Cafés

Café Jafra (4622551) – a really cool place to drink tea, smoke a shisha or eat out, especially when there is space on the balcony over the street. Open till early in the morn-ing, it’s just opposite the post office, a few hundred meters down from Hashem, where all the DVD stores are. They also have a nice Iftar buf-fet during Ramadan.

The Arab League Café (Maqha al-

Jami’a al-Arabiya) is a bit hard to find (on the 1st floor, up an unspec-tacular staircase, around a corner opposite Hussein mosque), but a beautifully ancient teahouse, with many old men smoking shishas and playing backgammon, dominoes or cards.

Books@Café (4650457) a true leg-end in amman. 300m to the right near the end of Rainbow street, it is visited by a cool crowd of young, creative people, who enjoy its funky design, comfor-table sofas, good food and beautiful views. There are also concerts here and the famous pin board for flats and oth-er advertisements.

Coffee’N News is a relaxed little cof-fee bar on Rainbow street with wire-less internet and good music.

going outCurrent information on any perfor-mances, events, exhibitions, cul-tural nights etc. is best taken from the daily Jordan Times, the weekly the star or from the internet. there is also a monthly magazine/book-let with up-to-date information on what’s going on. A comprehensive list of restaurants, cafés, cinemas, clubs etc. can be found at www.guide2jordan.com. You can also check the Ministry of Culture’s web-site: www.culture.gov.jo

cultural placesIf you’re interested in art, music, drama and film, you’ll be glad to know that he artistic scene in am-man is growing fast. there is a num-ber of art galleries, theatres, cine-mas and music venues and more are appearing every month.

There are two major venues for cul-tural events:

The Royal Cultural Centre (5669026) is located on University Street, just before Sport City on the right, if you come from Dakhiliyeh circle.

Al-Hussein Cultural Centre (4735187) is located south of Jabal Amman in Ra’s al-’Ayn, on the left of the major road leading toward downtown.

they are sometimes confused be-cause of their similar names. Both house numerous events from con-certs to plays and film screenings.

Darat al-Funun in Weibdeh prides it-self as “a home for the Arts and the artists of Jordan and the Arab world”. Founded by the Khaled Shoman Foundation, it is mostly an art ex-hibition space, but also organises poetry readings, theatre and music performances. Tel: 4643251/2 www.daratalfunun.org

There are other cultural organisa-tions and instuttions such as the noor

Al Hussein Foundation, which estab-lished the Performing Arts Center, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Founda-tion and the haya arts Centre.

Apart from these, there are a num-ber of foreign cultural institutions in Amman, which (apart from offering language and other courses) organ-ise regular cultural events in various locations, including the two Royal centres just mentioned.

Goethe-Institut (Germany) in Jabal Amman, near the 3rd circle Tel: 4641993 www.goethe.de/ins/jo/amm/dein-dex.htm

French Cultural Centre in Jabal al-Weibdeh, at Paris circle Tel:4612658 www.lecentre-jo.org

Instituto Cervantes (Spain) near 3rd circle,behind the Inter-continental Tel: 4610858 http://amman.cervantes.es/

British Council on Rainbow Street in Jabal Amman Tel: 4636147 www.britishcouncil.org/jordan.htm

As you stroll through the streets of Amman, especially downtown and Jabal Amman, you can notice quite a few cinemas, though only very few have survived and are still operat-ing.

Commercial cinemas for big american and arabic movies can be found in several places and here you can find movies and showtimes.

Le Royal Hotel (Cine Le Royal), 3rd circle

Mecca Mall (Cinema City)

City Mall (Grand City Mall)

Zara Centre (Grand Zara) below the hyatt

The Royal Film Commission (www.rfc. ) is very actively promoting film and cinema in Jordan and have regular outdoor screenings of inter-esting films at their new location be-tween Books@ and Rainbow Street. They also organise workshops and other film-related things. It’s worth being on their mailing list.

barsWhat is the difference between a bar, a café and a club? Very often one place can be all three, or maybe also a restaurant during the day. so the differentiation here is a little arbitrary. Though a bar is more for drinking al-coholic drinks, you can also get those in many of the international restau-rants and cafés listed above. The places listed here as ‘bars’ are thus not for dancing, but more for sitting and drinking mashrubaat.

Amigo Pub (4633001) is a cool, rocky place two minutes from the 1st circle, with a billiard table.

Salute & Grappa (4651458) near Fakhr el-Din restaurant, close to the 1st circle. The two locations on 2 floors and the beer garden with great views offer something for everyone.

Blue Fig (5928800) is a very popular Bar/restuarant/café place in Abdoun. With its open architecture over sev-eral floors (good acoustics for music events!) and its garden, it attracts a wide range of people.

La Calle (4617216) is a popular trat-toria/bar on Rainbow street, not far from Books@.

Bonita (4615061) is a Spanish res-taurant with a cute, little bar next to it on the right. 3rd circle

Kitkat Bar is not for everyone. Mostly old, poor Ammanis go there, drink vodka with bring-your-own juices and smoke. That’s all. For some people, this together with the odd decoration has a certain charme. downtown near Jafra.

The Living Room (464 4227) is al-most like a noble pub in London and is thus very popular with the foreign crowd of business men, aid workers and ex-pats. Also good sushi. At the 3rd circle.

Loki is a bar in bottom of the hash-em Hotel, frequented by the artistic crowd, near IFPO.

ClubsMost clubs in Amman are either in Jabal Amman (around the 3rd circle) or Abdoun (around Abdoun circle). new ones keep popping up as the scene grows and old ones disappear, so it is hard to give many details here. Just explore.

HealthFor a list of hospitals and doctors, most of which speak either English or German in addition to Arabic, see Annex 2.

FitnessJogging/running in public, as it is common in some countries, is not really appropriate in Jordan or any-where in the Arab world, actually. If you want to do some sport or exer-cise during the semester in Amman, there are several other options:

there are several sports clubs in the JU, which you can get informa-tion about in the Sports Complex on Campus, opposite Cairo-Amman bank

in Sports City (Medina ar-Riyadiyeh) - there are a lot of facilities here, including courts for football, tennis, squash and volleyball, two swim-ming pools (outdoor and indoor) and a good running track. For details and prices, you can just go and check it out, or call on 5667181 (extension 147 or 119) at the various fitness centres around town – here are just two examples:

Fitness one

(on Mekka Street?

aerobics studio with b.t.s. courses like Body Combat classes, Body Pump, Body Attack, Body Jam and R.P.M.

Tel: 5859924

Fax: 5859734

Open Sat-Thurs 05.30–23.00, Fri 10.00–20.00

Prices vary from 35 JD one month to 220 JD a year and include free use of sauna, steambath and Jaccuzi.

Power Hut Gym & Fitness Centre (opposite Burger King in Shmeis-sani)

Tel: 5686349

Fax: 5672050 powerhut@nets.com.jo

list of embassies in Amman

Algeria

Embassy of the Democratic People’s Rep. of Algeria

1, Mohammed Haykal Street,

3rd Circle, Jabal Amman

P.O. Box 830375

11183 Amman

Phone: 464 12 71 / 4 64 12 72

Fax: 461 65 52 / 4 63 78 29

Web Site: http://www.mae.dz/ma_fr/

bahrain

embassy of the kingdom of bahrain

Fares al-Khoury Street, Shmeisani

P.O. Box 5220

11183 Amman

Phone: 664148 / 5664148

egypt

Embassy of the Arab Republic of egypt

Riyad el-Mefleh St., No. 14

Between 4th and 5th Circles

P.O. Box 35178

11180, Amman

Phone: 5605175 / 5605176 / 5605202 /5605203

Fax: 5604082

Germany

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Benghasi Street 25, 4th circle

P.O. Box 183

11118 Amman

Phone: 593 03 51, 593 03 67, 593 13 79

Fax: 592 94 13

Website: www.amman.diplo.de

Iraq

Embassy of the Republic of Iraq

near the 2nd circle

Phone: 4623175/6/8

Fax: 4637328

Email: amaemb@iraqmofamail.net

Lebanon

Embassy of the Republic of Lebanon

Mohamed Ali Bdeir Street #17

abdoun

P.O. Box 811799

11181 Amman

Phone: 5929111 /2/3

Fax: 5929111 /2/3

Morocco

embassy of the kingdom of Morocco

Avenue al-Hariri No.1, Youssef Ib-nou Tachafine

shmeisani

P.O.Box 2175

11183 Amman

Phone: 56 80 591 / 56 80 592

Fax: 56 80 253

Palestinian Territories

Bldg. No.27, Qurtuba St.

Annex 1

Wadi Saqra, near 4th circle

P.O. BOX 995757

amman

Phone: 663813 / 668210 / (or 56 77 510/7 ??)

Fax: 661727

Email: palestine@nol.com.jo

saudi arabia

embassy of the kingdom of saudi arabia

Jabal Amman - 5th Circle

PO Box 2133

11181 Amman

Phone: 5926941 / 5926942 (or 814154/5141551 ?)

Fax: 5921154 (or 826154 ?)

Email: joemb@mofa.gov.sa

syria

Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic

Prince Hashem bin al-Hussein Street

abdoun

P.O. Box 1733

11118 Amman

Phone: 5920684 / 5923791

Fax: 5920635

Website: http://www.syrianembas-sy.jo

Yemen

Embassy of the Republic of Yemen

Emir Hashem Bin al-Hussein Street

(near Abdoun circle?)

P.O.Box 3085 (or 5803 ?)

11181 Amman

Phone: 592377-1/ 2

Fax: 5923773

Annex 2

Pharmacies, doctors and hospitals in amman

PharmaciesWalid Tawfik el Sayyed (D)

3rd circle, Prince Mohammed Str.

4 64 46 11 5 60 34 00

Shawkat Pharmacy, Abdali

5 67 76 66 Mobile (0 79) 552 59 72

Abdoun International Pharmacy, Abdoun 5 92 14 70

Doctorsalternative medicine

Acupuncture, Lasertherapy

Dr. Abdel-Mutaleb S. Tawil (D)

5 60 14 89 Mobile (0 79) 554 55 49

Oculists (eyes)

Dr. Nour El-Deen Arafat

5 67 99 67 5 92 94 36

Dr. Faisal Fayyad

5692131/5696355/5 15 18 86

5 60 75 50 (Jordan Hospital)

Dr. Jamil Qasiem Nasser (D)

5 69 11 58 5 69 63 55

Dr. Fouad Sayegh (D)

4 61 45 99 5 34 88 77

Mobile (0 79) 55 247 11

surgeons

Dr. Abdallah Bashir

5 67 67 53/4 5 67 19 37

Dr. Khalil Zayadine (D)

4 65 86 60 Mobile (0 79) 55264 65

Handsurgeon / consultant

Dr. Kamel Afifi (D)

5 67 67 76 5 66 93 02

Gynacologists

Dr. Mahmoud Al Taher

5 60 71 55 5 68 33 00

Mobile (0 79) 55 666 11

dr. efteem azar

5 60 75 50 5 92 87 95

Mobile (0 79) 55 31 090

Dr. Zeid Kilani (D)

4 64 44 40 5 93 40 00 ext. 2133, 2130

Dr. Al Kindi 4 64 44 40 ext. 2150

Dr. Jamil Sha’ban (D) 5 62 00 70/77

Ear, nose and throat doctors

dr. hassan badran

4 62 12 41 54 52 551

Dr. Moh’d Masadeh 4 64 55 40

Dr. Mohammed Najjar

5 92 52 09 Mobile (0 79) 558 03 74

Dermatologists (skin)

Dr. Wajdi Kanaan 4 64 73 74

Dr. Hashem Kurdi 5 67 58 13

Dr. Hala Zabaneh

4 62 38 99 Mobile (0 79) 5 60 39 03

Dr. Reem Hamad 5 68 17 56

Internists (internal medicine)

Dr. Madhat Said Jada’an (D)

4 64 99 71 5 53 08 04

Dr. Sami Khourma (D)

4 64 22 29 5 66 74 82

Mobile (0 79) 55 70 050

Dr. Osama Sweiss (D)

4 63 93 39 5 15 80 66

Mobile (0 79) 55 21 427

dr. taroub khouri

5 67 89 09 4 64 56 22

Mobile (0 79) 55 51 355

Dr. Qasem Zaqqa (D)4 63 81 38

Mobile (079) 552 54 54

Cardiologists (heart)

dr. Munir arida

4 61 36 13 5 15 82 18

Mobile (079) 5 56 94 32

Pedeatricians (children)

Dr. Nasir Abdul Hadi (D)

5627700 5 53 66 99

Mobile (0 79) 55 42 050

dr. hind dawani

5 62 10 20 Mobile (0 79) 55 84 614

Dr. Abdel Kareem Al-Zakka

4 64 94 49 5 92 55 30

Mobile (079) 55 26 108

Dr. Jarir Halazun

5 60 80 80 5 92 68 81 (Jor-dan Hospital)

Neurologist

Dr. Salah Salah (D) 4 64 20 02

opticians

Lina-Optics 5 68 28 77

Shami-Optics 4 63 67 84 / 5 52 72 77

Handal-Vision 5 51 49 83

orthopaedists

Dr. Mahmoud Ababneh (D) 5 35 34 44

Dr. Kamel Afifi (D)

5 67 67 67 5 66 93 02

Mobile (0 79) 552 82 53

Dr. Bashar Hamarneh (D)

5 53 30 56 4 64 18 78

Mobile (0 79) 557 96 39

Dr. Sami Qusus (D)

5 67 00 00 4 63 06 88

Mobile (0 79) 555 06 70

Dr. Mohammad R. Tuffaha (D)

5 69 85 24 5 52 87 13

General practitioner

Dr. Saeed Abu Blan

5 60 29 09 5 93 12 84 5 92 28 58

Urologists

Dr. Mahmoud Kilani (D)

4 64 90 88 5 34 95 55

Mobile (0 79) 553 81 42

dr. Y. Mouasher

5 67 94 32 5 92 11 04

Mobile (0 79) 55 67 713

dentists

Dr. Ghassan Edilby

4 65 80 00 5 53 96 38

Mobile (0 79) 552 73 22

dr. George kawar

5 66 97 66 5 92 94 35

Mobile (0 79) 55 89 944

Dr. Abu Salem (D)

4 64 49 24 5 73 31 16

Mobile (0 79) 55 61 834

Dr. Ghassan Zaki Nasr

4 75 95 25 5 82 15 16

orthodontists

dr. bustami

4 64 16 13 5 81 97 19

Mobile (0 79) 58 28 555

Dr. Kamal Kawasmi

5 51 63 03 5 52 83 18

Mobile (0 79) 55 99 542

Dr. Lamees Madanat-Majaj

5 52 84 80 5 52 84 80

Mobile (0 79) 55 92 913

Public Hospitals

King Hussein Medical Center (KHMC) 5 80 48 04

Queen Alia Military Hospital 5 15 71 00 (Heart Institute- und Rehabilitation Centre)

Al Amal Center 5 35 30 00

Private Hospitals

Jordan Hospital

5608080, Jabal Amman, 4th circle

Al Khalidi Maternity & General Sur-gery Hospital

4 64 42 81/4, Jabal Amman

Arab Center for Heart and Special surgery

5 92 11 99, Abdoun

Farah Maternity Hospital

4 64 44 40, Jabal Amman, next to IFPO

Malhas Hospital

4 63 61 40, Jabal Amman, 1st circle

Palestine Hospital

5 60 70 71, Shmeisani, Dakhiliyeh Circle

Shmeissani Hospital 5 60 74 31

Speciality Hospital 5 69 36 93, Shmeisani

Ibn Al-Haitham, Tlaa Al-Ali 55 168 08/23

Eye Speciality Hospital 5 52 11 06, Tlaa Al-Ali

Amman Surgical Hospital 4 64 12 61/10

Annex 3

This is a short list of the relevant

contact persons for any issues dur-ing this Master program, both in

Jordan and Germany.

Program Organisers

Prof. Dr. Manar Fayyad

Chemistry department

University of Jordan, Amman

Tel.: +962-65355000(22154), mobile:+

796001115

Fax: +962-6-5160528

e-mail: m.fayyad@ju.edu.jo

Mailing address:

P.O.Box 13797

Amman 11942, Jordan

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh

Director, WEEC

Water, Energy and Environment Center

University of Jordan, Amman

Tel.: +962-65355000(23900),

Fax: +962-65355560

e-mail: water1@ju.edu.jo

Prof. Dr. Lars Ribbe

betzdorfer straße 2

50679 Köln (Deutz)

Germany

Tel. 0221.8275-2774

Fax 0221.8275-2736

itt@itt.fh-koeln.de (Sekretariat)

Dr. Manar and Prof. Ribbe are the main people in charge of the M.Sc. IWRM. However, for most questions you should just contact the coordinators.

Coordination team

Dr. Maha Halalshe

Tel.: +962-65355000(23900),

Fax: +962-65355560

halalshe@ju.edu.jo

Marc haering

Tel. 0221.8275-2288

Fax 0221.8275-2736

marc.haering@fh-koeln.de

Jörn Trappe

Tel. 0221.8275-2288

Fax 0221.8275-2736

joern.trappe@fh-koeln.de

daad

The DAAD contact person (for any issues related to scholar-ship or insurance):

Klaus Stark

DAAD, Refeat 431

Individualfoerderung in aufbaustudiengaengen

Kennedyallee 50

53175 Bonn, Germany

Tel +49-(0)228-882 759

Fax +49-(0)228-882 662

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http://www.oma.aero/en/airports/san-luis-potosi/

http://www.inami.gob.mx/

http://cuentame.inegi.org.mx/monografias/informacion/slp/default.aspx?tema=me&e=24

http://www.ctreig.gob.mx/rutas_trapte.htm

Here is some touristic information about San Luis Potosí downtown.

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