SDG Event List

Encourage hope, empathy and compassion to their patients while carrying out their duties The students were urged to exert maximum efforts in the performance of their academic duties now and later on their professional duties, motivating them to keep standing solid keeping their minds and their souls high and to [...]

Focuses on how visceral fat as an age-associated muscle degeneration, the kind that wraps around the internal organs, is more dangerous than subcutaneous fat that lies just under the skin. A research conducted by Dr. Simone Perna, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of [...]

This event empowered young people and social entrepreneurs to embark and/or scale their startup journeys

This event was hosted at UOB and open to all students irrespective of their background and affiliation

The event provided awareness to anyone who is interested to startup his own business (3 March 2019)

The primary objective of this initiative is to help students familiarize themselves with emerging disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, Data Science, and Web Technologies (Jan- Feb 2019)

For a fourth consecutive year, the aim of this event is to encourage potential entrepreneurs to start new ventures in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This event discussed success stories of entrepreneurs to help audiences learn from their experiences. This event provides a venue where decision makers, venture capitalist and other [...]

This is a cross- country collaborative funded research project related to supply chain sustainability between researchers from: 1- University of Bahrain 2- University of Melbourne, Australia 3- City University of Hong Kong 4- University Sains, Malaysia 5- Deakin University, Australia 6- University of Monash, Australia

The University has launched an exciting project in partnership with UNDP, Microsoft, Think Smart and Tamkeen to develop a high number of female programmers. The scheme called “Forsati for Her” was launched in March 2018 at the UoB premises with all stakeholders and students in attendance. The scheme is aimed [...]

UOB has won a Diversity Award for having the highest number of females participating in DevFest Bahrain 2019. DevFest 2019 is an event hosted by Google Developer Group (GDG) Manama that aims to build developer skills of participants using Google Technologies. Participants compete on getting the most number of google [...]

The University organized it’s First Business Plan Competition as part of the Startup Day 2019. This competition was open to all university students irrespective of their background. The event aims to stimulate entrepreneurship among students. Teams were challenged to conceive a new service or product offering, and then create a [...]

UOB contributed to female inclusion by encouraging female students to participate in the first Women Hackathon on Artificial Intelligence. A number of female faculty members were also mentors in this program.