Top Sharjah universities tackle real-world challenges via SRTIP

Faculty and students will collaborate with industry to develop practical, high-impact solutions through a historic research agreement

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Faculty members and students in select colleges of two top 500 globally-ranked universities in Sharjah now have more opportunities to help solve problems by way of applied research.

This is so as through the three helix approach of the 2016-established Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP), the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and University of Sharjah (UoS) - both founded in 1997 by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the UAE Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, with the National Paints (NP), also based in Sharjah, sealed a “Quadripartite Three-Year Master Research Agreement.” Signatories are SRTIP chief executive officer (CEO) Hussain Al Mahmoudi, AUS chancellor Dr. Tod Laursen, UoS chancellor Dr. Issam Al Din Ibrahim Ajami, and NP managing director Samer Salim Al Sayegh.