The Human Development Committee working under the umbrella of the Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council held a virtual meeting presided by His Excellency Eng. Abdul Rahman Al Hammadi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Performance Improvement, the Chairman of the Human Development Committee for the UAE side, and Dr. Saleh bin Ibrahim Al Qassumi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for International Cooperation and the Chairman of the Human Development Committee for the Saudi side. The meeting was attended by their Excellencies, Undersecretaries of the Ministry and Assistant Undersecretaries from both sides as well as representatives of the joint sectors.
Further, this meeting aims to present a number of joint projects with the brotherly Saudi side within the framework of strengthening the strategic relationship between the two countries, following up the latest developments of existing projects between the two parties, and highlighting the most important achievements, challenges and proposed solutions in the fields of education, health, space, sports, youth, culture, media and artificial intelligence.
Moreover, new initiatives were also raised, such as the creation of the Saudi-Emirati Virtual College of Technology, which aims to provide virtual training through an interactive environment that employs smart e-learning applications and its various philosophies, and achieves the goals of the modern educational system that supports the sustainability of lifelong learning. In addition, the launch of a joint annual forum between the two countries in the field of technical and vocational training to develop relations between academic bodies in the field of technical and vocational training between the two countries and the signing of a joint executive cooperation program with the Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education and Training was discussed.
Commenting on the meeting, his Excellency Eng. Abdul Rahman Al Hammadi explained that this meeting comes as a reflection of the vision of the wise leadership in strengthening the bonds of cooperation, brotherhood and solidarity in various fields and at all levels. Also, he pointed out that this joint meeting focuses on the crucible of briefing and concentrates on drawing up a clear plan in order to study priority projects with discussing its significant and expected positive impact at the level of the two countries in various fields, which is also an affirmation of our commitment to implementing and achieving the plan on the ground and creating more new, effective and pioneering opportunities for all participating parties.
On his side, Dr. Saleh bin Ibrahim Al Qassumi said: through this cooperation between the two brotherly countries, we seek to expedite the emergence of the achievement that we are proud of from this committee in front of the two wise leaderships seeking to be supportive of their ambitions in building an effective and integrated system of strengths that characterize the two countries.
Furthermore, he continued his speech by highlighting the workflow plan of the initiatives and interim achievements via setting detailed courses of action and a time for implementing the initiatives and projects.
The meeting was concluded with recommendations that success is the fruit of this cooperation by insisting on implementing initiatives, continuing integration, holding periodic meetings and continuous communication, to come up with qualitative and effective initiatives in compatible with standards. Further, it insists on providing the corner stone for the welfare of both countries and both states through our wise leaderships, as they were a shadow and an approach towards spaces of goodness that was reflected in word and deed, pride and honor, towards a creative future in which people enjoys a life full of values, love, tolerance and giving.
12/07/2021