Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Human Resources Development Fund (HADAF), launched on Monday a training program for students of the Cultural Scholarship Program. This program is aimed to develop national expertise in cultural sectors, promote professional sustainability, and equip scholarship students with the necessary skills to work in the cultural sector.

This program, which falls under the framework of an agreement signed between the Ministry of Culture and HADAF in June 2023, seeks to support the training of 100 Saudi graduates specializing in cultural disciplines by placing them in institutions and companies in their host countries for up to 12 months.

Training areas include architecture, theater, archaeology and heritage, music, fashion design, visual arts, culinary arts, food science and technology, filmmaking, design, literature, languages and linguistics, and museum and library sciences.