“The work is of interest for the scientific community; it will open new areas to search to provide smart solutions to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, While the concept will require more development before being applied to PPE, it is an excellent start in this direction,” said Mahmoud Al Ahmad, an associate professor of engineering at University of United Arab Emirates.

The research project was announced by Rashid Al Ghurair, CEO of on-demand car service CAFU at a signing ceremony with Dr. Bhanu Chowdhary, Dean of the College of Food and Agriculture, UAE University, for the partnership MoU that will help scale CAFU’s Ghaf Tree Seed project, as well as explore ways in which plants can grow sustainably in an arid landscape with the use of minimal water and reduced manpower effort.

The annual competition welcomes thousands of college and university students from the UAE and the wider Middle East, enhancing students’ future employment through knowledge sharing on the latest ICT developments.

The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has launched online courses for its accepted inaugural cohort students ahead of the academic year starting on January 10, 2021. The University has recently extended admission offers to 100 students from 31 countries, with nearly 90 per cent of the admitted students having already accepted their offers.