University of Balamand Event

Under the slogan of “Empowering local communities”, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Balamand (UOB) inaugurated the GIS Awareness week organized by ESRI Lebanon. The celebration of the GIS Day at UOB on Tuesday, November 15 th , 2022, was an ordain to a weeklong of GIS-related events worldwide.

The event was also an occasion for UOB to announce the launch of the MENA region’s first Geo-Artificial Intelligence (Geo-AI) Academy. The Geo-AI Academy is dedicated to the capacity building provided by international experts for students and GIS professionals in the field of geospatial big data and artificial intelligence. This exclusive collaboration between UOB and ESRI Lebanon crowns a long history of collaboration and achievements between them. To know more about this academy click here