Sina Institute for knowledge Engineering and Arabic Technologies at Birzeit University hosted a visit by presidents of seven Flemish Universities from Belgium. Prof. Mustafa Jarrar, the Institute director (who graduated from VUB in 2005), presented a summary about the mission, objectives, and future vision of Sina Institute, in addition to an overview of its ongoing projects. An open discussion followed to find out ways of collaboration with the various Belgium universities.
The visitors admired the accomplishments of the institute and its ongoing projects, and expressed their eagerness for future collaboration, especially that the institute research topics are in computational linguistics and its applications in several fields such as health, environment and cultural heritage.