RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center on Saturday launched a voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its diseases in Sudan, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday.
The project was launched in the southwestern city of Nyala, in South Darfur, in cooperation with the Sudanese Al-Basar International Foundation.
The center’s volunteer medical team has detected 2,500 cases to date, performed 270 surgeries, and distributed 950 spectacles.
The campaign is an extension of Saudi Arabia’s projects, implemented by KSrelief, to combat blindness for low income families in a number of countries.
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Saudi aid agency launches project to combat blindness in Sudan
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Saudi aid agency launches project to combat blindness in Sudan
- The project was launched in the southwestern city of Nyala
Saudi Arabia’s KAUST named FIFA’s first research institute in MENA
- KAUST President Prof. Sir Edward Byrne said that the university’s selection as the fifth FIFA Research Institute in the world — and the first in the region — marks a significant achievement, reflecting Kingdom’s growing presence in international football
RIYADH: FIFA has designated the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as its first research institute in the Middle East and Asia to support the development of innovative football research, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday.
The recognition highlights KAUST’s commitment to integrating sports, academic research and industry through advanced, high-level initiatives grounded in rigorous scientific methodologies, contributing to the advancement of football studies.
KAUST President Prof. Sir Edward Byrne said that the university’s selection as the fifth FIFA Research Institute in the world — and the first in the region — marks a significant achievement, reflecting Saudi Arabia’s growing presence in international football.
The accreditation aligns with national efforts to invest in research and development and promote the knowledge economy, supporting Saudi Vision 2030’s goals of building an advanced sports system based on innovation and sustainability.
The collaboration’s first project focuses on developing advanced AI algorithms to analyze historical FIFA World Cup broadcast footage, transforming decades of match videos into structured, searchable data, according to the KAUST website.
This work opens new opportunities to apply state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and deepen understanding of how football has evolved over time.
The second project uses player and ball tracking data from the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand to compile comprehensive datasets capturing in-game dynamics.
These datasets provide deeper insights into human movement, playing techniques and performance dynamics through AI-driven analysis.
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