In an effort to internationalize research and to make cutting-edge research facilities available to our researchers and graduate students, the University has reached collaboration agreements with:
The University of Parma, in Parma, Italy
The University of Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Naporca, Romania
Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) and
CypherCrescent Limited
HYPREP (Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project)
Prof I M Siminialayi with the Rector of the University of Parma Prof Paolo Andrei
Dr Kingsley Patrick-Iwuanyanwu with Prof Martha Marmirolli and other staff of the University of Parma
In June and October 2022, our university signed Memoranda of Understanding with the Management of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in Europe and another one with the University of Babes-Bolyai, another very old university in Cluj, Romania. The collaboration with the University of Parma will permit staff and students exchange, joint supervision of graduate research, joint application for research grants, particularly in the life sciences and environmental studies. The agreement with UBB leans towards the Social Sciences, public policy and public health.
Uniport delegation consisting of Prof I M Siminialayi and Prof Fidelis Allen during the MOU signing ceremony with officials of the University of Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Naporca
The University has also reached an agreement with the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Nigeria Natural Liquid Gas Ltd to use the NLNG/NCDMB institutional strengthening intervention to close the huge skills/competency gaps between academia and industry. The intervention will provide a 5-faceted Engineering Centre for Innovation (ECI) building to house;
A state-of-the art 4th Industrial Revolution equipped laboratory, powerful enough to make the University of Port Harcourt the engineering innovation hub (digitalization hub) of Nigeria.
An electrical power generation laboratory complemented by a thermal support system, aimed at filling the gap between academic knowledge and industry performance of our graduates.
A refinery simulator centre that will make up for the existing modular refinery in the university that is facing operational hiccups due to lack of access to feedstock.
The intervention is also to build requisite capacity to aid technology transfer and competence to facilitate sustainability of the project.
The goals of this intervention, essentially, are to improve the quality of graduates produced by making them industry-ready; to position UniPort as a centric hub that will deliver digital future skills competence for artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality and internet of things capacity; position UniPort as the leading digitized institution in the next 3 years and the only university to offer digital literacy certification in IC3 (internet, Computing Core Certification); be the Niger Delta’s and West Africa’s first Refining, Gas and Petrochemical Institutional Simulation Hub and internationally accredited Operator Safety Certification Issuer; first ever drone pilot technology certification prep and assembly training institution in the Niger Delta, provide digital twinning remote management of oil and gas and manufacturing plant in the Federation.
We signed a memorandum of Understanding with CypherCrescent Limited, a company headed by alumni of the University of Port Harcourt to train oil industry workers who would have otherwise gone abroad under the sponsorship of PTDF. The training will be done in the University’s Energy Technology Institute that will be operated like the Institute of Petroleum Studies on the triple helix plus paradigm of Industry, academia, government and other experts; all participating in the training of graduate students.
CypherCrescent is a fast-growing African energy innovation company focused on technology development, oilfield digitalisation, integrated asset management, real time digitalisation (IoT and analytics), digital capacity development, engineering research, and enterprise IT services. Established in 2012, it has rapidly attained industry leadership in the oil & gas technology solutions sector.
The University’s Africa Centre of Excellence for Public Health and Toxicological Research has been commissioned to undertake a study on the health and social impact of hydrocarbon pollution in Ogoniland by the Federal Government’s Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP). The University is to work in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Research and Training (IMRAT) of the University of Ibadan.
It is expected that implementation of this project will attract much needed research infrastructure and improve the conditions for training of our students on Community Medicine rural posting to K-Dere in Ogoniland.
