Chinese
tech giant Huawei is to donate equipment to the American University of
Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) to set up the first Huawei ICT Academy in the
United Arab Emirates.
Representatives
of Huawei visited the AURAK campus to initial the agreement and met the
university’s President, Professor Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim.
AURAK is the
first educational institution in the UAE to sign a deal with Huawei, a
leading global provider of information and communications technology
infrastructure and smart devices with integrated solutions across four
key domains of telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services.
The Academy
is to be located within AURAK’s ICONET Center that specializes in
research, teaching, incubation and training in ICT-related technologies.
It will provide training and certification in various ICT areas
including Internet security, cloud computing, Big Data and artificial
intelligence.
AURAK is a
nonprofit, government-owned institution of higher education which
provides the local, regional and international communities with a North
American-style education integrated with Arab customs and traditions.
AURAK is licensed by the Ministry of Education in the United Arab
Emirates and has been accredited in the United States of America by
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
(SACSCOC) since December 2018. AURAK offers a total of 22 accredited
undergraduate and graduate programs across a wide range of disciplines.
Huawei is a Chinese multinational IT giant that produces smartphones, consumer electronics, telecoms and networking equipment.
According a
memorandum of understanding signed in early 2019, Huawei and AURAK will
collaborate in utilizing training programs to transfer ICT technologies
to AURAK via the Huawei ICT Academy. Huawei will deliver training and
certification programs to AURAK through the Huawei ICT Academy, provide
the Huawei Certification Academy Instructor training service for AURAK
faculty members, offer a scholarship for talented students, open the
Knowledge Transfer Event Opportunity to students, and provide 10 student
internships.
In return,
AURAK will supply teaching facilities to accommodate Huawei ICT
equipment for the Huawei ICT Academy, provide faculty members to become
Huawei Certification Academy Instructors, and propose the Huawei
Authorized Information and Network Academy Certification course as an
optional non-academic course for students. It will also liaise with
local networking industries to deliver HAINA Network training to other
professionals in the ICT industry throughout the UAE, and work with
Huawei to develop training schedules to meet student needs.
Contacts
American University of Ras Al Khaimah
Kamel Abu Youssef, +97172210900 Ext: 1327 k.youssef@aurak.ac.ae
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