Honoring winners of 2022 Arabic Digital Content Pioneers competition

The National Union of Syrian Students, the Syrian Virtual University, and the Young Entrepreneurs Association (SIA) honored the winners of the 2022 Arabic Digital Content Pioneers competition, during a ceremony held on Wednesday at the Continuing Learning Center of the Virtual University.

The number of winning projects reached 11 out of 93 submitted to the competition, where the winners were awarded prizes worth five million for the three projects that won the first place, and a value of one and a half million pounds for the owners of promising projects to convert them into investment opportunities.

President of the National Union of Syrian Students, Darren Suleiman, stressed in her speech the importance of supporting the digital content industry at the student and youth level, shedding light on this matter, and developing a national strategy for it to be part of building a strategy at the Arab level. She highlighted the Union’s support for pioneering thought among youth and the provision of the environment necessary to transform their ideas into successful, applicable and investment projects, in cooperation and networking with the concerned authorities.

In the speech of the jury, Dr. Sera Astor, Director of the Master’s Program in Computer Science at the Virtual University, stated that the winning projects were selected according to several stages and scientific criteria that focused on innovation and the ability of the projects to support national and Arabic digital content on the Internet.

In statements to the media, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Bassam Ibrahim, underlined the ministry’s keenness to support pioneering youth projects, especially those related to the educational process and information technology, as well as those related to industry, economy and trade, calling on the winners to enter the labor market and implement their projects.

Minister Ibrahim indicated that the Council of Higher Education recently took a decision to adopt the e-book in universities in order to secure the scientific material at the lowest financial cost and as quickly as possible for students and to compensate for any educational loss that the student is exposed to during his university studies.

Inas Abdulkareem