ORIC had brought Mindstorm Studios, San Francisco to FUI's students and encouraged them for Summer Fellowship Program, which is an 8-week long nationwide program, tailored specifically for students to cover different facets of game development such as Game Design, Game Programming and Game Arts. This year, 1600x students from all over Pakistan applied for this program, out of which 3x were from Foundation University Islamabad.
Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) hosted the visit of Director ORIC, Health Services Academy (HSA), Dr. Mubashir Hanif on 28th Sep 2021 at the Islamabad Campus of Foundation University Islamabad (FUI). The visit was moderated by Manager Innovation & Commercialization Mr. Abdul Moeed Qureshi, couple of fruitful meetings were also held with Dept of Community Medicine and College of Nursing. Dir ORIC-HSA expressed that “It is inspiring to see the institutional commitment and discipline at FUI Islamabad Campus.
On December 03, 2021, Foundation University Islamabad (FUI) and Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) signed an MOU agreement to foster research, education, and mental and physical healthcare for the benefit of the community. On this occasion, the Rector FUI presented a souvenir to Prof. Dr. Zainab F Zadeh Representative of PILL.
ORIC, FUI has joined hands with Corporate Advisory Council (CAC), NUST to promote social entrepreneurship among the students of FUI through a competition called "FUI Students competing in the NUST's Idea Comeptition called Finding Innovative and Creative Solutions for Society (FICS)". NUST has pooled up FUI as a partner University to allow its students to compete.
Information Technology & Information Technology Enabled Services (IT & ITES) Industry needs slightly skilled graduates as starters in different IT roles, whereas education sector is struggling to meet the desired pre-job skillset. Therefore, to develop such skills of student in different verticals of these Industries, ORIC in partnership with NeXskill (OZI Group), an IT training company, brought together 5x renowned young CEOs to orientate the FUI students about their career progression. The Director Operations OZI Group, Mr.
FUI aims to organize training sessions for bringing improvements and professionalism in academics and research. Therefore, on 30 th November 2021, ORIC invited Dr. Syed Muhammad Junaid Zaidi, the Founder Rector COMSATS for training session on the topic “Effective Proposal Writing towards Winning the Research Grant”. Dr. Zaidi acquainted the faculty members with the tips for effective proposal writing and also explained the points to be avoided while writing a proposal to the funding agency.
The Department of Quality Assurance (DQA) in its vision “to make FUI a Quality Conscious Higher Education Institution” organized an Informative and Interactive Workshop on Dec 01, 2021 on the “Utilization of Anti-Plagiarism Software – Turnitin”. DQA invited Dr. Khushbakht Hina Khan – Director QEC, National University of Modern Language (NUML) as a resource person to conduct the said workshop for the faculty members of FUI.
On 21/11/2021, an Intuitive and informative workshop titled, “Policy Measures for Trading in PSX & Market Abuse" was organized under the supervision of Dr. Muhammad Awais – Associate Professor (Economics & Finance). The two and a half hours event was held in Video Conference Room, FURC. In this Event, around 24 students and 5 faculty members as well participated from the Department of Economics and Finance and Department of Business Administration.
On 15/11/2021, an Intuitive and informative seminar titled, “Impact of COVID-19 on Pakistan’s Economy and Way Forward" was organized under the supervision of Dr. Muhammad Awais. The two hours event was held in Video Conference Room, FURC. In this Event, around 10 faculty members participated from the Department of Economics and Finance and Department of Business Administration.