Syrian Virtual University honors the winning teams in the Arab Digital Content Competition

Damascus-Sana

The Syrian Virtual University honored today at the Dar Al-Assad Theater for Culture and Arts in Damascus the winning teams in the Arab Digital Content Contest held in Syria for the first time in the presence of Dr. Najah Al-Attar, Vice President of the Republic and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University.

The competition that the university launched on the thirtieth of last March included axes of education, culture, tourism, media, economics, business and community services and targeted the youth entrepreneurs segment and university and institute graduates between the ages of 18 and 35 and they have innovative ideas and software applications that contribute to the development of Arab digital content and enrich it locally, Arab and globally and support Arabic language on the Internet.

The first place won the "Flexible Learning" project for each of the students Muhammad Adel Saad Al-Din, Nagham Al-Shaarani, Salman Ali, Muhammad Ali Al-Hammad and Al-Bara Al-Shahoud. The award amounted to two and a half million Syrian pounds, while the second place was won by the "Translate" project by Mahmoud Aslan, and the prize amounted to two million Syrian pounds, while the third place A "smart tourist assistant" project won him each of the students weighing Darwish and Manar Sahu, and the prize amounted to two million Syrian pounds.

The fourth place was won by the project “Al-Bayan” for the student Manar Menem, and the prize amounted to one and a half million Syrian pounds and the fifth place, “Let's work” for each of the students Muhammad Hasoud and Hanan Al-Suleiman, the prize reached one million Syrian pounds, and the sixth place won the “automatic summary” project of Dr. Dania Saghir. Million Syrian pounds.

The first phase of the competition included the study and evaluation of the participants ’projects by a specialized scientific committee according to a system of standards consistent with the objectives of the competition, where 31 of the total projects submitted amounting to 67 projects were qualified to the second stage and their owners received specific training in the field of entrepreneurship and was developed under the supervision of mentors from the academic sectors It takes three months to nominate 19 of them to participate in the final competition.

Dr. Khalil Al-Ajmi, President of the Syrian Virtual University confirmed in a speech that has the importance of setting a national strategy for the advancement of the Arab digital content industry that contributes to building a knowledge economy in various sectors, indicating that “90 percent of knowledge in today's world is now digitally generated and digital content is transformed into a treasure and the responsibility of institutions The Academy is emerging from the mantle of traditional elitist educational logic and shifting from business learning to institutions focused on entrepreneurship and industry. ”

Dr. Al-Ajmi pointed out that a workshop will be held during the coming period for the projects of the 19 teams that have reached the final competition in order to allow them to meet the concerned authorities and stakeholders who can adopt these projects and study the support mechanism that will be provided to them, indicating that the virtual university has chosen some of these Projects to support, adopt and invest within its system.

In meetings with Sana, a number of members of the winning teams spoke about their projects, where Dr. Dania Saghir from the Faculty of Information Engineering at Aleppo University pointed out that her project is an electronic summary of news texts and articles that saves time and effort on readers and researchers and provides information in a simple and accessible way to them.

The student weighs Darwish from the Faculty of Information Engineering at the Virtual University, indicating that his project includes a digital tourist guide for the Syrian Arab Republic in multiple languages ​​that serves foreign and Arab tourists, considering that the competition is an opportunity to show the distinguished student during his university studies.

The ceremony included screening of films on Arab digital content, stages of the competition, companies and their supporters, and musical compositions performed by the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Misak Bagboudrian, and the distribution of prizes and certificates of appreciation to the winners.

The honoring ceremony, which coincides with the celebrations of the cultural circles, was attended by the International Day of the Arabic Language, which falls on the eighteenth of December of each year, Dr. Bassam Ibrahim, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Engineer Muhammad Rami Martini, Minister of Tourism, Dr. Mohsen Bilal, member of the Central Leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party and his collaborators. The Ministers of Economy, Foreign Trade, Higher Education, Scientific Research, Communications, Technology, President of the Federation of Journalists Musa Abdel Nour, members of the Board of Trustees of the Syrian Virtual University and a number of managers of scientific and research organizations.

The Syrian Virtual University had launched this competition with the aim of enriching the Arab digital content and making this content in all its components by expanding the circle of supporting this content and stimulating its industry at the level of individuals, institutions and organizations and encouraging university graduates and young entrepreneurs to work in it as well as activating content projects in business incubators and reaching an advanced level In the field of investing applications, information systems and modern technologies and providing an opportunity to review innovative ideas, entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurship in scientific dialogue frameworks.

The Virtual University is an accredited public university established in 2002 and it includes several majors, such as information engineering, media, information technology, communications, law and economics, and it works to provide a modern education, training and research system in the academic and professional field.

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