With the support of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and as an incentive for digital entrepreneurship in the Kingdom, the CODE Lab was launched at the University in the presence of His Excellency the Governor of the Communications, Space & Technology Commission, Dr. Muhammad bin Saud Al-Tamimi, and His Excellency the President of the University, Prof. Dr. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Dawood, yesterday, Sunday, December 25, 2022. This is the third CODE Lab for digital entrepreneurship and one of the six branches of the Digital Entrepreneurship Center, which the university established on its campus as a contribution to its operational phase. This step aims to stimulate entrepreneurship and improve the digital entrepreneurship ecosystem, with the goal of creating an integrated environment that ensures the incubation of digital entrepreneurial ideas and projects.
The Qassim University Code Lab aims to embrace digital projects, empower tech startups and increase investments, in addition to stimulating the culture of entrepreneurship in digital innovation through workshops and events, increasing the contributions of startups to the domestic product, as well as improving the contribution of GDP to the digital economy, and raising the adoption rate of emerging technologies.
This lab contributes to the connection between experts and faculty members on one hand, and beneficiaries and entrepreneurs on the other, by providing access to various technological equipment and devices, enabling them to manufacture and create their business models, and participate in technical meetings and courses for those wishing to develop their skills, through providing technological equipment and tools, and shared workspaces to incubate the best university projects and emerging tech companies in the region.
During the visit, Their Excellencies and Honors reviewed the contents of the laboratory, the laboratory facilities, as well as university students' innovative projects at an exhibition, through a number of booths that showcased the university students' projects in the main foyer of the university city.







