The European Union (EU) has listed Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife among the Eight (8) Universities selected across the world for its support and a grant to start a Master’s Degree programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The regional body’s statement announcing this, indicated that Five (5) of the Eight varsities are Nigerian Universities, namely: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU); University of Port Harcourt; University of Abuja; Obafemi Awolowo University, and Michael Okpara University, while the remaining Three (3) Universities are from Europe.

The statement further disclosed that the EU erasmus was aimed at integrating artificial capabilities into embedded systems to enhance the skill set for modelling, design and analysis for Engineers, adding that “approval for the grant was given by the EU Culture Executive Agency to establish an international MSc degree programme in embedded artificial intelligence as part of its vision for human capacity development in higher institutions.

“It has the capability to strengthen the Nigerian higher education training curriculum with state-of-the-art, European standard technology. The programme will last for 36 months,” the statement noted.