The project of Lebanese University PhD and Master students Ghinwa Kataya and Ghada Abou Chahine won the GIL HADATH entrepreneurship competition organized by NAWAYA Foundation as part of the "GIL/Innovation Leaders" program.

Out of 13 projects, Kataya and Abou Chahine's project, “Treating oil-polluted water using natural resources,” won support and funding to purchase a set of equipment needed to implement the project.

The project is part of Ghinwa's PhD research at the Doctoral School of Science & Technology, co-supervised by the University of Montpellier in Environmental Sciences, and Ghada Abou Chahine's second-year master's research in Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, under the supervision of Dr. Akram Hijazi.

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