The Sustainable University of the Future

Does the University Have a Future?.- Humanizing Higher Education: University of the Future.- Role of Universities in Transforming Society: Challenges and Practices.- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and University Transformation.- How to Include SDGs in the Teaching Curricula.- Social Innovation in Advancing SDGs.- Gender-Related and Women Empowerment Challenges.- Knowledge-Based, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Driven Research and Teaching.- Towards Sustainable Smart Campuses: From AI-Based Platforms for Distance Learning to Virtual Teaching.- Impact of the Industry 4.0 on the University and on Cooperative Education.- Preparing Students for Industry 4.0.- University 4.0: Social Aspects.

Mariam Al Ali Al-Maadeed is the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Physics and Materials Science at Qatar University. She has been leading the research and graduate studies strategies, programs, and developments since 2016, and has played a major role in developing the research and graduate programs, as well as fostering and strengthening national and international relations within this field. Professor Al-Maadeed is currently chairing the Academic Network for Development Dialogue (ANDD), a new United Nations initiative related to implementing Sustainable Developments Goals (SDG) within universities in the Arab Region. She is a winner of the Leadership Excellence for Women Awards (LEWAS), a program dedicated to recognizing professional excellence in women from the energy sector in the Middle East. 

Abdelaziz Bouras is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at Qatar University. He currently manages the Pre-Award Department at the Office of Research Support. He worked earlier at the University of Lyon, France, as  a Professor until 2013. He has managed several international projects (including EU FP7, Qatar Foundation, French ANR) and large Erasmus-Mundus programs between the EU and East Asia, exchanging around 400 students and faculty between the two continents and enhancing collaboration between the partner universities. Professor Bouras has published many research papers in refereed journals and conferences, co-founded three  international journals and published several books, including Industry Integrated Engineering and Computing Education: Advances, Cases, Frameworks, and Toolkits for Implementation (Springer, 2019). He is currently chairing the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 5.1, a group of scientific and industrial experts active sustainable lifecycle engineering.

Mohammed Al-Salem is the Director of