HRH Prince El-Hassan Bin TalalScience and Higher Education
“The world of science and higher education is marked by a complex struggle, pull-and-push effect, between continuant and change. It is all about new challenges, opportunities and new modes of ‘learning to learn’. The idea of reforms, innovations, transformations and evolution (rather than revolution) tells us that higher education and science are in ferment in creating and constructing knowledge”…Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Science and Technology
“There is nothing more important at this juncture of human history than the application of the world’s collective achievements in science and technology to the cause of overall global development.”…”If science and technology has decisively produced the means of mankind’s potential destruction, then surely it is capable of coming up with the wherewithal of man’s ultimate survival and well-being”…Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Knowledge Societies
“At the heart of building knowledge societies, an interaction between continuity, change and quality in reforming education systems and building science-capacity should become an inherent part of human development”…Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
“The information age that has now dawned upon us is fuelled by two major components: information and communication technologies (ICT), and globalization. This is transforming the global community into a set of knowledge-based economies that are moving fast towards an integrated uni-global economy, with foreseen and unforeseen challenges that will dramatically affect society in both developing and developed countries”…Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Bioethics
“Bioethics must form a cornerstone of any involvement in biotechnology and genetic engineering.”…”Multinational and transnational corporations are at the forefront of the biotech revolution. We seek investment and profit so that we may further research and development schemes which are highly necessary in our parts of the world”…Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Biotechnology
“Jordan, such as many other developing countries, has the capacity to become highly competitive in biotechnology, since the main expense in the field is skilled manpower, at relatively low cost in Jordan. Jordan has a higher rate of college or university educated people. It has shown considerable commitment in developing biomedical infrastructure, with a particular focus on biotechnology”…Prince El Hassan bin Talal
