Calling all forward-thinkers and eco-innovators! Step into the spotlight with this program focused on agrifoodtech and cleantech. 🍏 Ignite your potential through hands-on training, interactive workshops, and personalized mentoring, all designed to empower you in shaping a greener future.
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This initiative is a collaboration with Berytech (@berytech_) and is proudly supported by The Embassy of The Netherlands in Lebanon (@nlinlebanon).
Webinar on Climate Action in Construction and Building Industry
SAVE THE DATE-16 SEPTEMBER 2021 – Webinar on Climate Action in Construction and Building Industry
As part of the efforts to enhance climate action among arab youth, the Islamic University of Lebanon, Yarmouk University, and Tanta University in collaboration with the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA), are organizing a Webinar on Climate Action in Construction and Building Industry. The Webinar will convene experts on climate change, green urban planning, and Construction material with university students from Arab countries.
In the webinar the speakers will go over: ➢ Improve understanding on the importance of addressing climate change in the Construction and Building Industry and the role of Arab youth in enhancing climate action in the region. ➢ Promote a science-policy interface through showcasing a comprehensive scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change on key sectors in the Arab region, based on findings from RICCAR, and how it supports climate-informed policymaking. ➢ Highlight the role of climate-responsive, green economy policy frameworks at the national and city levels, with examples from Jordan. ➢ Raising awareness about the impacts of construction materials on climate change and discussing ways to mitigate the environmental footprint of construction materials using innovative methods and technologies.
Annual orientation exhibition in the Agricultural Village Center
With a special presence, the Islamic University of Lebanon Baalbek branch participated in the annual orientation exhibition organized by the Lebanese Society for Studies and Training in the Agricultural Village Center in Baalbek in the presence of a large number of Lebanese universities.
High school students in official schools from Baalbek city, Arsal Al-Ain, Dir Al-Ahmar and northern Bekaa villages participated in the exhibition.
As the Islamic University in Lebanon provided a detailed explanation to students about the branches of the university extended over the country, especially its new branches in the Western Bekaa areas and Burj Al-Barajna Tower, and about the available specialties and the grant system.
In its turn, the Organizing Society praised the exhibition for the special role of the Islamic University and the message it presents.
Beach Cleaning Campaign
Within the framework of the challenge to the impacts of climate change, the university has been cooperating with the local community, especially with the municipalities, on activities that contribute to adaptation and reducing the risks of climate change, so it organized several campaigns, including the Cleaning Campaign along the southern shore in cooperation with the Union of Municipalities of Tire.
Green Tomorrow
Under the title of Our Will, We Make the Green Tomorrow, second-year students at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration organized a handmade art exhibition, as all the contents of the exhibition were prepared for perishability, as they were recycled and used in a beneficial manner.
Venue: The Islamic University of Lebanon – Tyre
When: 12/21/2016
Arab Youth Hackathon "Solutions for Change"
If you have innovative solutions to combat the effects of climate change in areas of: agriculture, circular economy, water security, renewable energy and optimal utilization of resources.
Join the Arab Youth Hackathon “Solutions for Change”
You need to form a team from 3 – 2 people of diverse skill levels with one member over 21 years of age”
3 will qualify competitors from each country to participate in the final hackathon that will be held in Dubai. The top three places will receive support of the Plug and Blug incubator, a month-long training to transform the idea into a startup, as well as a financial prize from the Pepsico Foundation:
