The university has partnered with many organizations over the years in numerous areas related to teaching, learning, research, career development and sustainability. Through these national and international partnerships, the university was able to contribute to supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This is a list of some of the on-going university partnerships that are tackling the SDGs, some of which have started in 2017.

 

# Party Involved Year Description SDGs
1. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2019 The university has signed a memorandum of understanding to provide strategic support to youth in education. Through this agreement, the University joined the International Youth and Education Alliance. Collaboration in:

·  Areas related to the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES).

·  Implementation of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development’

·  Periodic joint seminars and workshops to address different environmental issues.

·  Training workshops on key regional environmental issues such as renewable energy, water scarcity, and food security.

·  Joint academic research projects on major environmental challenges related to Bahrain and the region.

 

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2. European Nuclear Research Centre (CERN) – Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment 2019 Partnership to take part in CMS experiments conducted on accelerators. A University team, from the College of Information Technology, to work on improving the current program to select the important data resulting from the collision of protons and a second team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering to design and build a special motorized jig for platform insertion for the maintenance of the CMS. 17
3. United Nations Development Program (UNDP) 2018 Agreement to enhance joint and collaborative activities for gender equality and promoting innovation with common target of raising awareness and promoting the achievement of SDGs in Bahrain, including the following:

·  Supports the university in the validation and joint launching of the 12 GEPMI gender empowerment modules.

·  Jointly develop and help deliver courses on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs, to be offered at the Graduate level at the university and at an introductory level for foundation level students.

·  Provide support in offering training programs for female students in addition to providing support for the establishment of new computer labs for “Forsati for Her” program that trained 3000 female students in ICT Skills.

·  Establish an Innovation Lab to foster Innovation and provide entrepreneurship support services, from design to implementation.

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4. Liverpool John Moores University 2018 This agreement aims to offer a joint MSc program in Big Data Science and Analytics. This program is the first of its kind in the Kingdom of Bahrain and among the first among the GCC. 17
5. Shanghai University 2017 Collaboration in research activities addressing clean and alternative energy solutions. Two conferences were held to discuss research from both universities in the efficient use of materials in energy production, removal of toxins, hydrogen fuel cells, free CO2 energy generation and organic batteries. Sharing of such experiences from scientist from both universities created a starting point for innovation and stronger research collaboration. 17, 4
6. Aston University 2017 Three-years agreement for a joint study on linking desalination plants using reverse osmosis technology via renewable energy systems. Joint supervision of PhD in Engineering program and organizing a number of activities and events in elated areas. 17, 6
7. Loughborough University 2017 Three-years research collaboration to establish a permanent Research Centre for Sustainable Energy and Water at the University of Bahrain, strongly linked to the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) at Loughborough University and to the Bahrain Sustainable Energy Unit (SEU). The partnership also aims on launching four renewable energy laboratories at the University. 17, 6
8. University of Oxford 2017 Four-years partnership agreement to conduct research in the field of water distillation via osmosis technology. The agreement allows researchers from the University of Bahrain to benefit from the expertise of the University of Oxford in this field. The research collaboration between the two universities will contribute in providing solutions to reduce energy consumption for water desalination. 17, 6
9. La Sapienza University, Italy 2016 This MOU aims to establish collaboration in research, teaching and student exchange 17
10. King Sejong Institute, KOREA 2017 Establish and operate King Sejong Institute to teach Korean Language at UOB 4,
11. Prince of Songkhla University (PSU), Thailand 2017 Building on the previous collaboration with Prince of Songkhla University,  the University of Bahrain have signed a new MOU with the purpose of fostering collaboration in teaching, research and cultural activities 17
12. United Nations Environment Programme 2017 Prepare National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory and mitigation Assessment for Kingdom of Bahrain 17
13. HUAWEI 2017 Provide training to UOB students and assist in graduation projects including technical workshops to make them job ready 4
14. Aix Marseille University, France 2019 This is part of Bi-Country Level Agreement. In the context of friendly relations and partnership between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the French Republic, UOB and Aix Marseille University have signed an MOU for collaboration related to teaching and research. 4
15. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Tamkeen 2019 Partnership to launch UOB’s Cloud Innovation Center that aims to accelerate the process of digital transformation in the public sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and throughout the region in general through the utilization of cloud computing technologies to find solutions for challenges faced by public sector organizations, educational entities, and non-profit organizations. 9
16. Dell Technology 2019 Partnership to upgrade UOB’s e-learning facilities and resources which allows expanding the university’s services through providing access to online resources. This agreement will enable the university to improve the performance of the educational system through the adoption of new generation of information technology infrastructure from “Dell Technologies” in order to strengthen the educational sector and implement the vision of Bahrain’s transition towards a knowledge-based economy. 17, 4
17. British Embassy Bahrain – UK Science and Innovation Network 2020 Collaboration in organizing UK- Bahrain Waste Management Symposium. 12
18. Prince’s Foundation for Building Community 2017 Agreement to cooperate in educational processes and research. Developed an MSc program in Environment and Sustainable Development and designing curricula pertaining to environment studies, sustainable urbanization, biological variation, sustainable development, and urban design. 17, 11
19. Advance Higher Education, UK 2019 Organize seminars and workshop on leadership skills and improve teaching skills of UOB faculty members. 4,
20. QS Asia 2016 UOB and QS Asia signed an MOU for the purpose of improving quality of Higher Education through conferences, seminars and other related initiatives. 4, 17
21. Dubai Future Foundation – One Million Arab Coders Initiative 2020 Offer a wide variety of free coding courses to students. 4, 17
22. The Yunus Emre Institute, Turkey 2016 This MOU between Yunus Emre Institute and the University of Bahrain is to strengthen the corporation between the two entities. 4
23. ISACA Bahrain Chapter 2019 Partnership to provide female students with an opportunity to obtain professional certificates in IT field. This initiative contributes to the Human Capital Development of the Kingdom of Bahrain and especially women in areas where they are underrepresented. The university trained 150 female students in IT Governance over the period of one and a half year. 17, 5
24. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2019 Partnership to provides the university students with training, scholarships, and resources. This collaboration benefits students from the Colleges of Engineering and Information Technology through attending the events and seminars organized by IEEE branch in Bahrain. In addition, the branch has also organized Programming Competitions for the university students addressing pressing issues. 17
25. Higher Education Academy 2018 To collaborate on marketing and delivery of the Academic Leadership Programs in Bahrain. 4
26. Injaz Bahrain 2019 This partnership contributes to the development of students’ skills in work-readiness and career perspective, leadership, networking, critical-thinking and entrepreneurial skills. 17
27. National Geographic 2017 The university in partnership with National Geographic have launched a Learning Center at the University of Bahrain. The Centre has been established to provide support and assistance to all students of the University of Bahrain to improve their academic performance in English language skills, including speaking and listening skills, as well as assistance in research and written projects in various disciplines. The center has nearly 7,000 books in addition to video, audio and multimedia equipment.

 

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28. Palo Alto Networks (Netherlands) B.V. (“Palo Alto Networks”) 2018 Offer technological expertise to faculty members in the form of train the trainer and deliver at least two technology related sessions per year for technical, academic and/or student audience. 4
29. SAP Training and Development Institute FZCO, SAP Middle East and North Africa 2020 Partnership to launch a dual study program that qualifies university students to obtain SAP professional certificates that focus on practical knowledge related to SAP. The graduates of this program go on to become SAP Associate consultants. 4
30. Royal College of Surgeon in Ireland

 

 

 2018 The aim of this MOU is to create a joint fund and foster collaboration to achieve the following:

1.       Encourage collaboration between teaching and research faculty to promote innovative ideas to improve education.

2.       Support student exchange and visits to enhance student experience, which include conducting lectures and organizing conferences.

3.       Promote other academic cooperation as mutually agreed.

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31. GDG Manama 2019 Organize a range of free training programs for students across the country. These courses were offered via UOB’s coding academy. 17
32. ACADEM 2019 Collaboration with ACADEM to support the quality assurance practices at the university. 4
33. French Embassy 2019 Workshops and seminars on settlement dispute resolution in French law. 16
34. Edge Hill University, King Abdelaziz University and Sultan Qaboos University 2019 Organizing the 2019 International Conference on Innovation, and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies. 17
35. BWallet and AFS 2019 Organize an exclusive challenge for students to design a new user interface for Bahrain’s most popular mobile wallet app 4
36. Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2018 The agreement is to organizing conferences, seminars and workshops. 17
37. Bolton University 2016 Partnership to design a program in “high-efficiency engineering and engine technology” and explore collaboration opportunities in developing engineering programs between the two universities. 17, 11
38. Newton Legal Group 2017 Partnership aimed to encourage and support startups at the university to establish successful businesses through equity contribution, legal support, financial model support, financial options, training, coaching and mentoring and business network 17
39. American Heart Association Inc. (AHA), USA 2018 The agreement with AHA ECC is to introduce courses to be taught by International Agreement Centre (ITC) such as Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support. 4
40. Bahrain Society of Engineers (BSE) 2019 The university collaborates with Bahrain Society of Engineers in many education activities such as conferences, workshops, and seminars for both students and faculty. This collaboration is geared towards upskilling university affiliates and shedding light on and working on joint projects in areas related to sustainability.
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41. iGA 2019 The University collaborates with iGA on many research projects that assess the satisfaction of e-government services provided to Bahrain’s residents. The university also contributes to iGA’s excellence awards through faculty members who serve as judges in the award. The award recognizes, rewards, and showcases the pioneering ICT initiatives taken by the Kingdom of Bahrain’s community including Governments, Private entities, NGOs, and citizens. 17
42. Tamkeen 2019 The university collaborates with Tamkeen through many projects including the Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) and supporting Tamkeen with university experts who participate in many of the advisory sessions organized by Tamkeen to plan for their projects. 17
43. Bahrain Economic Development Board 2019 The university collaborates with EDB through providing potential companies support and access to students to understand the Bahraini market.
44. Kaspersky 2019 College of Information Technology collaborates with Kaspersky in activities related to capacity building and course resources. 17
45. Global Shapers 2019 Free events for attendees on career paths and developing a curriculum vitae
46. Eskan Bank 2019 College of Engineering collaborates with Eskan Bank in the annual engineering award for the college students competing in “Sustainable neighborhoods with smart designs” 17, 11
47. General Electric (GE) 2018 The university collaborates with GE on in supporting the College of Engineering students training and projects.
48. BENEFIT 2019 The university collaborates with BENEFIT on a number of research projects including establishing an AI lab at the college of Information Technology.
49. Bahrain Credit 2019 The university and Bahrain Credit sign an MOU to support students training in media and communication through the university’s media center. Bahrain credit as also donated two carts that the university will utilize in the transportation of students with special needs around the campus. 4
50. Ministry of Transportation & Telecommunications 2019 MOU between the university and the ministry through the Civil Aviation Affairs to establish collaboration in the field of meteorology transportation and communications including offering an MSc program and a Minor in Weather Forecasts which provides candidates with the proper training on the World Meteorological Organization standards. The two parties also collaborate in scientific research and offer training for the employees of both parties. Moreover, the agreement includes linking the meteorological station of the two parties and work to develop a mechanism for exchanging information between the two stations. 17
51. World Health Organization (WHO) 2019 The nursing department works closely with its partners to collaborate on various projects and initiatives and to implement sustainable development. The nursing department at the College of Health and Sports Sciences was redesignated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre (CC) for Nursing Development (WHOCC) in August 1990. The designation is subjected to renewal every four years. Th Nursing Department received its redesignation which is valid to September 2022.

The Collaborating Centre was the first in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and remained the only Center in the Arab Gulf region. The centre contributes to the WHO’s sustainable and strategic goals and objectives in supporting and enriching the nursing and midwifery education and healthcare service in the country and the region.

In 2019, the center contributed to delivering several activities targeting the public midwifery workforce with the objective of upskilling the midwifery workforce in the region in collaboration with WHO and support WHO in scaling up the capacities of primary care midwives. To be more specific, this activity aimed to enhance midwives’ practices in primary health care settings (antenatal settings) consistent with the WHO actions to achieve the SDGs and universal health coverage.

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John Hopkins University School of Nursing		 2019 As part of Nursing department recognition as a WHOCC, the department also build a partnership with other networks to extend collaborative work with other nursing schools. The nursing department at CHSS is an active member at the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Midwifery in John Hopkins University School of Nursing. Among its multiple efforts, the centre, represented by the nursing department, participated in the global maternity network as an academic leader in nursing and midwifery education in the region, with the mission of promoting the health for all population through the collaboration, communication, and cohesion of the nursing and midwifery global community and its partners in different regions of the world. 3 & 4 & 17
53. Scientific Society for Arab Nursing Faculties 2019 Nursing Department at the College of Health and Sport Sciences is a member of Scientific Societies for Arab Nursing Faculties represented by Dr Leena Khonji Head of the Department. The nursing department collaborates with the SSANF to raise the level of education in the field of specialty and to promote scientific research and joint research and exchange of results.

The SSANF has now 82 members from various colleges of nursing in the Arab countries and Societies and comprises three committees: a committee of scientific research and development, Education Student Training committee and Accreditation and Quality Assurance Committee also offers annual awards to institutions and individuals for outstanding work and the exchange of students and the exchange of experiences between nursing faculties.

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54. American Heart Association (AHA) June 2018 -2021 Sustaining its role toward the local community health and wellbeing, the Nursing Department at College of Health and Sport Sciences obtained the renewal of certification as an International Training Center (ITC) by the American Heart Association (AHA) for three more years starting from June 2018. The non-profit ITC was the first established and certified in the Kingdom and still provides its services to university students and faculty as well as all healthcare workers and members of the community. As part of its commitment to the community, the centre prepares students at exit level with needed certification free of cost and trains instructors for basic (BLS) and advanced life support certification (ACLS). The centre is not limited to the health sector; it also plans training workshop and certifies members of the community and workers in the industrial sector. As such, the centre, which is headed by Ms Amina Matooq, is considered a non-profit center prepares students and health care workers to achieve BLS, ACLS licenses.

From July 2019 until June 2020, the center qualified 5 BLS instructors. Moreover, 144 students attended the Heartsaver FA, CPR, AED, and 416 students were trained as BLS Healthcare providers. Finally, 50 students received became ACLS providers, while 28 successfully became PALS Providers.

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55. University Illinois Chicago 2018 Nursing Department at College of Health and Sport Sciences had partnerships with University Illinois Chicago in 2018, an international Nurse Consultant from University of Illinois Chicago visited the college and contributed to curriculum review and Development of Master Program.

Continuing its efforts in developing the nursing education sector in the Kingdom, the nursing department had worked to establish the program of master’s in nursing sciences in a partnership with the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2018. The representative nursing consultant from Illinois participated in curriculum and content review activities along with members of the nursing department.

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56. Bahrain Nursing Society (BNS) 2019 In the first quarter of 2019, the president of the University of Bahrain met the reconstituted Bahrain Nursing Society and discussed different means of potential collaboration into other aspects of nursing research and education. In the same context, the university works towards the support of professional societies; the nursing department at CHSS engaged with Bahrain Nursing Society initiatives and collaborated with the society’s activity at international level, where recently two nursing students have been nominated to represent the Bahraini Nursing students in the International Council of Nurses (ICN). 3,4,17
57. Ministry of Health Since 2015 – Annually renewed Throughout its efforts to sustain a constant level of education, UoB has signed a recurring agreement with the Ministry of Health (MOH) since 2015. The agreement permits access to university students and faculty to all learning and training resources available at the MOH healthcare facilities, including access to clinical areas and available equipment. Such permission is essential to maintain a high level of clinical training to the different health professions programs offered at the CHSS. In return, the UoB grants access to its medical library and teaching resources for the MOH nurses, physicians, and other healthcare workers. 3,4,17
58. King Hamad University Hospital Since 2018 – Annually renewed The university establish another fruitful collaboration with the King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH) that resulted in signing a training agreement in the year 2018. The recurring agreement came as efforts to expand training capacities and resources to students and faculty to meet the increased demands toward health care programs. 3,4,17