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Five UAE Institutions receive Siemens’ €100m software grant

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The Ministry of Education and Siemens have announced software licenses for five universities in the UAE, valued at 100 million Euros in total. The partnership between the Ministry of Education and Siemens, comes on the back of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between both parties last year.

The grant seeks to advance digital skills in the country to support its economic diversification goals, underscoring Siemens’ contribution to the Year of Giving in 2017. The license handover was made during a signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi, attended by His Excellency Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, the UAE’s Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills, and Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, said the UAE’s wise leadership places great attention to building youth skills as they are our assets for the future and leading its development as pointed out by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai in his last speech about future vision that “the new phase focuses on “future skills, future sciences and future technology, as we prepare for the centenary to ensure a better future for our generations”. This is why this grant by Siemens’ as part of its contribution to the Year of Giving in 2017 is key to building digital skills and fostering innovation among UAE nationals which is in line with the UAE centurial and contributes to meeting future aspirations. 

Following an open call for submissions of compelling ideas that illustrated how universities would use the company’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, the Ministry of Education selected UAE University, Zayed University, Higher Colleges of Technology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and Rochester Institute of Technology. Students and faculty at these universities can use the software for academic and institutional purposes to develop the required skills to drive the country’s digital transformation.

 

“During the Year of Giving in the UAE, private companies are inspired to engage in activities that reflect the spirit of generosity and bring benefits to the community. We believe this is a natural desire; to give back to society and support the country’s long-term aspirations for a sustainable knowledge economy,”

Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, bolstered the company’s strong commitment to developing local skills in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by announcing an in-kind software grant of up to 100 million euros. The grant will see the company’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and MindSphere software used for academic and institutional purposes to develop the skills required to drive the country’s digital transformation.

The software grant will stimulate research activity among higher education institutions, encourage talent development among UAE nationals in digitalization and innovation, and support alignment between academia and industry. The software grant was first announced during the opening ceremony of the first Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit (GMIS) held in Abu Dhabi in March this year.

 

11/6/2017

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