UAE Innovates 2023
Dear ZU Students, Faculty and Staff,
Please find below detailed agenda of events taking place the 5th week of February - March 2023, as part of “UAE Innovates 2023”.
Please find below detailed agenda of events taking place on their respective dates |
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UAE Innovates 2023 - Week 5 |
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Department/College |
Activity Title
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Activity Date |
Activity Time |
Activity Description |
Location |
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College of Arts and Creative Enterprises |
AVA-310 Course, Painting Exhibition |
20 Feb - 03 Mar |
09:00am - 04:00pm |
AVA-310 course, painting exhibition Student Group Painting Exhibition |
AUH Campus |
| CIS Student Life (Coaching) |
Perform to Transform |
27 Feb |
90 minutes |
A kinesthetic, confidence-building and transformative workshop that dips into the art and science of performance, drama and social therapeutics, and uses embodiment, storytelling and acting to inspire participants to unlearn their default behaviours, free themselves from limiting beliefs and build agility as they negotiate meaning, decisions and relationships. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS) |
LD Panel discussion (DXB and AUH) |
15 Feb - AUH |
12:30am - 02:30pm |
Two panel discussions will be organized in both campuses in Abu-Dhabi and Dubai to invite speakers to talk about the importance of early detection for learning disabilities, the stigma around learning disabilities, successes of students of determination who have learning disabilities and inviting a celebrity to advocate for the importance of students to get tested and screened by SAS and to get the required services and to give inspirational messages on the importance of reaching out in the times of academic struggle since many students are failing in their academic performance or have weak academic performance because they are silently struggling with learning disability that they might not be aware of. with the right empowerment and support, a student with learning disability can learn to overcome the challenges associated with their disability and excel in all aspects of life. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS) |
Announcement/Brochures/Promotional Material Production |
1,8,16,20,28 Feb |
All day |
SAS students and staff will be distributing promotional material on SAS services to students via campus announcement and produced brochures amongst other items to support the campaign efforts. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS) |
Videos/Animation (DXB) |
Once every week: |
11:00am |
Outreach students and Media department will work on one video related to Learning disability awareness raising featuring students with LD (or students actors to show LD students struggles) that touches the emotional struggle a student with LD is experiencing and then the same student overcoming this struggle with ZU support and empowerment. the video will be screened in the panel discussion event, social media and SAS channel. Outreach students will work on an animation video for a fictional story on a "A Day in the Life of a student with Dyslexia" to be screened in Dubai campus through the month and on social media. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS) |
Social Media (UAE network, SAS and ZU) |
1,8,16,20,28 Feb |
All day |
Different social media content will be produced by students and media department to encourage ZU students signing the "1000 voices charter" in support of learning disability early detection. The videos and interviews captured in previous activities will be shared on social media accounts. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS) |
T.V Interview |
01 Mar |
07:00pm |
SAS student, Tathqeef student and SAS staff to secure a T.V. Interview to discuss the outcome of the campaign by the end of it and succeeding in filling the 1000 voices charter. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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CIS Student Life (Community) |
Promote CIS student members to apply to Youth Council for UAE Innovation |
Throughout Feb |
Online |
Youth Councils - promote this as an external leadership opportunity for students interested in Innovation. Promotion done through Newsletters and social media posts. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
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CIS Student Life (Coaching) |
Innovating Emirati Handicrafts |
01 Mar |
11:00am - 01:00pm |
In coollaboration with House of Artisans hold a session on innovation of Emirati handicrafts. |
Campuses of AUH and DXB |
