Event Schedules
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13:00 – 13:05
Start of opening ceremony and welcoming the guests
Organizing committee
13:05 – 13:10
Introductory film about the conference
Organizing committee
Speech of the Organizing Committee
Dr. Abdulhalim Zeidan - Head of the committee
Speech of the conference's Official Sponsor
Hanaa S. Al-Hajery - Assistant undersecretary of social development in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Social Affairs
Speech of the Sponsors
Mr. Khaled Mohammad Al-Subaihi - Chairman of the board at Humanitarian Excellence Association in Kuwait and head of Vol2Kw volunteer platform
Guest of honor speech
Her excellency Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifah Al Thani - Envoy of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States for Humanitarian Affairs
Speech of the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports
Dr. Mehmet Ata Öztürk - General Director of Education, Research and Coordination at the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports
Speech of the Middle East Ambassador for the International Commission for Human Rights
Dr. Haitham Abusaeed - Middle East Ambassador for the International Commission for Human Rights
13:55 – 14:00
Ending of the opening ceremony
Organizing committee
How to promote university volunteering
Dr. Khalid Yousef Al-Shatti - Kuwait
Success story presentation: Insani initiative
Dr. Nora Mishal Alotaibi - Kuwait
International trends in volunteering and its improvement
Nichole Cirillo - USA
14:50 – 15:00
Q&A
Organizing committee
15:00 – 15:10
A break to visit virtual sections of the exhibition
Audience
Initiatives Evaluation Committee presentation
Dr. Abdel Monem Daymi - Tunisia
Initiative: Humanitarian Sciences Training Platform
Dr. Karaoui Boumediene - Algeria
Initiative: MedX
Ömer Abdrabbuh / Dina Mohamad - Turkey
15:50 – 16:00
A break to visit virtual sections of the exhibition
Audience
Proposals to activate creativity and innovation in volunteering work
Dr. Aliar Hossain - UK
16:20 – 16:30
Posing a problem and asking for creative solutions
Technical committee
Recent trends in the development of skillful, digital volunteering
Dr. Mahmoud Rawajba - UAE
16:50 – 17:00
Q&A
Organizing committee
17:00 – 17:10
A break to visit virtual sections of the exhibition
Audience
17:10 – 17:20
Creative solutions review
Technical committee
Initiative: Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Hafid El Maktoub - Morocco
Initiative: A Tale of Steadfastness
Dr. Afrah Ali Masood - Yemen
Workshop (1): Establishing laboratories to develop volunteering work and social innovation at the university
Prof. Odeh Al-Jayyousi - Jordan
Open
Open time to visit the exhibition
Audience
New visions of the future of volunteering
Dr. Faleh Alrowaili - Bahrain
Success story presentation: Student for Children
Emily Tan Siew Leng - UK
Modeling university volunteering to serve the sustainable development goals
Dr. Evren Tok - QATAR
13:50 - 14:00
Q&A
Organizing committee
14:00 – 14:10
A break to visit virtual sections of the exhibition
Audience
Presentation on the national strategy for voluntary work in Kuwait
Rawan Al-Fouzan - Kuwait
Initiative: Take a Chance
Yasmine Al As’ad - Jordan
Initiative: National Voluntary Campaign for COVID-19 Testing in Gaza Strip
Ashraf F. Meqdas - Palestine
14:50 - 15:00
A break to visit virtual sections of the exhibition
Audience
Mechanisms of partnership with international organizations
Besan AbdelQader - Jordan
15:20 – 15:30
Inviting participants to join the interactive student forum
Technical committee
Mechanisms and areas for developing effective partnerships in volunteering
Saad ZIAN - France
15:50 – 16:00
Q&A
Organizing committee
16:00 – 16:10
A break to visit virtual sections of the exhibition
Audience
Initiative: Decent life
Mahmood zideea - Syria
Initiative: Your Blood is a Life
Eng. ZAIFULLAH ALANSARI - Saudi Arabia
16:40 – 16:50
Voting for the best volunteering experience and initiative
Technical committee
Workshop (2): Mechanisms for anticipating societal crises and how to create creative ideas to solve them according to the Design Thinking methodology
Dr. Rawaa El Ayoubi - Australia
17:50 – 18:00
Awarding the best experience winning team
Organizing committee
18:00 – 18:10
Recitation of recommendations
Organizing committee
18:10 – 18:20
Closing speech
Organizing committee
End of the conference activities
18:20 – 18:30
Organizing committee
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