The departments and sectors affiliated with the KAU Vice Presidency for Business and Knowledge Creativity is always keen on offering beneficiaries courses, programs, and lectures. This week, the different sectors have begun highlighting their various programs.
KAU Research Endowment Fund has received members of the Founding Committee for Investment and Endowments at Northern Border University to discuss ways of cooperation in the investment domain and benefit from the experience of the Research Endowment Fund as one of the KAU investment arms.
The NBU representatives have been briefed by Dr. Essam Kawthar, Executive Director on the mission of the Research Endowment Fund and its approach, community initiatives, and the most prominent achievements it has attained inside and outside KAU, with the aim of creating opportunities of collaboration between the two parties and providing the NBU delegation with all the possibilities of benefitting from the long experience that the Research Endowment Fund has gained in the field of university endowments over more than 15 years.

Jeddah Advanced Driving School has launched an initiative to provide an orientation program dedicated to public and private establishments. The initiative aims at providing a detailed introduction and expanded explanation of the school's services, programs, registration method, electronic systems, etc. The program has also provided several orientation sessions to the KAU female staff members working at different sectors such as Deanship of e-Learning and Distance Education and the Deanship of Student Affairs. The program has also targeted such institutions as the General Court of Audit in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, University of Jeddah, Bank AlBilad and many others.

King Fahd National Library organized a training program, especially designed for visually impaired people, entitled ‘Improving Effective Thinking Skills According to the Six Thinking Hats Theory’. The program aims at expanding blind people’s perception range; something which helps with developing the creative process in different situations and therefore, supporting decision-making and being able to discuss all viewpoints through parallel thinking and organizing information.

In the presence of Dr. Iyad Kateb, Dean of Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, and Dr. Mohamed Bashiri, Vice Dean, a cooperation agreement was signed with the Creativity Center, represented by Dr. Essam Kawthar, Managing Director. That agreement aims at building bridges of cooperation in the information and digital domains through implementing a number of projects for both public and private sectors across the Kingdom. That agreement is also one of several agreements carried out by the Creativity Center in order to invest in KAU researchers and academics.