About 40 scholarships will be awarded to master's degrees students of families benefited from the National Aid Fund, according to a statement issued on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, the Jordan News Agency (Petra) reported. 

The 40 scholarships will be given to 159 students who study at the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and at the German-Jordanian University (GJU).

The statement indicated that 20 scholarships will be given to students of JUST, while the rest 20 will be awarded to students of the GJU, within the Jordanian education project.

Mouneer bani Younis, Head of the Public Relations Department at the GJU said the project targets families benefiting from the National Aid Fund.

The Jordan Education project is funded by the European Union (EU) to assist underprivileged Jordanian students and is run by the GJU in cooperation with some Jordanian educational institutions.