EHSC occupies a 95-acre site in Al Jubaiha Amman, adjacent to Jordan University, creating Jordan’s de facto national R&D corridor. EHSC encompasses: the RSS, Jordan’s largest applied research institution with the most advanced testing and QA facilities in the region, comprising almost 40 internationally accredited laboratories; Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), the national leader in third level science education; and the Queen Rania Centre for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) and iPARK, which constitute the campus’s growing Innovation Hub. These networked institutions offer researchers, students and entrepreneurs the facilities, support and mentoring they need to convey technological innovation from research to practical and commercial application – from education, early career, start-up and incubation to open-source outputs or intellectual property commercialisation.
EHSC has its physical base at the heart of a region that must innovate to survive. Jordan is a country with few natural resources and many demographic and environmental challenges. It has a fast-growing young population that recognises the value of education for personal and community growth. EHSC represents a response to the desire of Jordanians to build a knowledge-based, diverse economic and social future. Jordan’s physical and intellectual positioning matches that of EHSC: it is an open and welcoming society that has long acted as a gateway to the wider Middle East. It is a place that has absorbed the ideas and innovations of those who have passed through over many centuries. We believe that with ingenuity and application, we can respond to the challenges facing our human and natural environment in Jordan, the region and beyond. Investment in knowledge truly pays the highest returns.