UDST concludes the third day of Research and Innovation Week with ITAS Arab Youth Competition and many MoU’s

  • Date: 28-Feb-2023
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Technology
  • Country:Qatar
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UDST concludes the third day of Research and Innovation Week with ITAS Arab Youth Competition and many MoU’s

Doha, Qatar: University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) recently held its successful Research and Innovation Week on campus. Industry experts and leaders from the public and private sectors were invited to the event to participate in discussions and view the collective work of UDST’s students and faculty. Guest speakers delivered talks on a range of critical topics, and bore witness to the work the University has put into the fields of education, applied research, innovation and sustainability. Each day had a specific theme: ‘Sustainability and TVET’, ‘Digital Technology and Health’ and ‘Innovation’, with the event serving as an appropriate prelude to ITAS 2023, the International Conference on Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainable Development, to be hosted at UDST on the same week.

The educational event, organized by UDST’s Applied Research, Innovation and Economic Development Directorate, was hugely popular. The initiative culminated in an action-packed third day that focused on the undergraduate and postgraduate presentations for the ITAS Arab Youth Competition. Further highlights on the final day included a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between UDST and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), as well as the College of the North Atlantic (CNA).

Dr. Salem Al-Naemi, President of UDST, said, “At UDST