Events & Campus Activities

The Campus Events & Activities Section provides the logistic needs for the Student Affairs Sector and the other sections within the Student Activities Department and especially in the major events. Through its connections with the concerned parties inside and outside campus, the Section, as well, provides assistance and support and supervises all the annual occasions, projects and events that take place in the Student Activities Department. In addition, the Section simultaneously with the State's Events, organizes educational and ecreational trips.

Goals

• Raising the technical and leadership competencies of the students in the execution of student projects
• Development of Student's competencies and skills in the field of activities

Events

The section organizes events, seminars, different shows and workshops in a number of areas, namely:

• The Cultural Village
  A special annual event that enriches the campus with a diverse and colorful culture of peoples from different parts of the world that the Student Activities Department organizes and aims at introducing the students to the cultural heritage of the participating countries through booths and shows that reflect their values and customs. The event comprises of cultural activities, folklore shows, musical show, traditional fashion shows, and theater.
• Talent Festival
  The festival exposes different aspects of many students' talents outside the academic scope, and is a platform for students with talents to show their exceptional abilities where students compete in different arts, such as: poetry, music, dancing and martial arts.

• Qatar University Traders (female)
  This event aims at enhancing the knowledge and job skills in the students, support of development projects that can promote the capabilities and skills of the students to adopt with the needs of the community. In addition, it brings commerce business experience exchange among the students that will foster the entrepreneurship and productivity for the future, as it seeks after restoring the work spirit and the initiative in planning for future projects.
• The National Day
  We seek excellence in providing new social activities through innovative ideas created by the students under the direction and supervision of the Student Activities Department. It is our belief that campus life is not/should not be in-class-lessons only, but a live mixture of knowledge and work, earnestness and recreation, our faith in the potentials of our students is the drive to our main target.
• Graduation Day
  One of the most important events in Qatar University is the Graduation Day, for what it stands and means for every graduating student and the University from happiness and sense of victory. The University, with all its sections, participates in the preparation of this important ceremony, and the Student Activities Department plays a major role.
• Theatre Day
  This event allows the students to express their opinions and display their creative ideas. It is also a way to gain knowledge by interacting with new people and a to refine their personalities and talents. A number of students take part in this event. They are divided into teams and each team has to perform a play in front of an audience.
• Charity Drive
  An initiative dedicated to help the people in need inside and outside the university. It also helps in creating
  humanitarian projects in which the students contribute indirectly in pushing forward this benevolent act. The
  drive also helps in building a social and humanitarian connection between the university students and all social
  levels of the Qatari community forming one charitable entity.
• Student Camps
  The aim of these camps is to engage the students in recreational activities and to help build their personality to include a strong sense of leadership. It also helps in strengthening and improving the relation between the
  students internally and externally. Such activities include sports, cultural, social and artistic activities.