Description
Innovation and entrepreneurship are a major driving force for economic growth and their enormous potential generates diverse employment opportunities. Understanding the shared entrepreneurial mindset in societies has become a focus for governments and societies around the world.
Encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship in the local ICT sector is one of the main tasks of the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) . Capacity building programs form an integral part of strategic initiatives that contribute significantly to promoting the sector and that work to educate and train students in innovation and entrepreneurship.
TIEC designed a capacity building program for students and graduates area _Creativity and Entrepreneurship InnovEgypt based on global studies to include entrepreneurship education in university curricula before and after graduation, which confirms the government’s support in providing education and training on a large scale in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. The InnovEgypt program is currently being offered.
Why InnovEgypt ?
What is the importance of teaching creativity and entrepreneurship to university students and graduates?
To help students and graduates develop their creative and entrepreneurial capabilities to match the needs of the customer market
To encourage students and graduates to be creative and self-employed as alternatives to work after graduation
To help students and graduates use their intellectual skills with training on how to manage and develop them.
To increase the number of startup companies and thus job opportunities for a larger number of graduates.
To provide qualified employees to local companies.
Building strong, interconnected community relationships.
What is the InnovEgypt capacity building program for university students and graduated in the field of creativity and Entrepreneurship ?
It is considered InnovEgyptA special edition of the capacity building program for university students and graduates in area _Creativity and Entrepreneurship InnovEgypt is a training program on innovation and entrepreneurship paths and skills targeting university students specializing in information and communications technology. The program is an ideal choice for learners who aspire to be innovators and business leaders in the future, especially for those wishing to establish start-up companies. The program seeks to create a base of potential entrepreneurs with skills required by local companies and their multinational counterparts.
In response to the new global challenge of the Corona epidemic, the InnovEgypt program was designed to keep pace with the new learning approach through a unique combination that ensures the highest levels of safety for all participants, and challenges all barriers of time and space that existed before .
What's new in InnovEgypt?
The total time of the course is 44 hours, including 30 interactive hours, 5 hours per day, over 5 days of workshops.
The possibility of applying is now available to students and graduates from all governorates.
Attending the first and second day of training in one of the innovation centers in the following places (Aswan University - South Valley University - Minya University - Sohag University - New Assiut Technological Zone - Smart Village Creativity Center - Mansoura University - Menoufia University - Borg El Arab Technological Zone - Canal University Suez, Ismailia.
Possibility of applying as a team or individuals.
Overview
InnovEgypt program content and modules
Innovation and Technology Management Unit : It highlights for students the “innovation process” in terms of definition, production, models, resources and tips. It provides a detailed picture of the importance of innovation as a business driver. It explains how to transform your thinking and business direction into an innovative direction. TIEC helps program learners apply innovation mechanisms and provides various forms of support necessary to achieve success. The innovation process is then linked to new ICT technologies, through a training unit that undertakes the task of training students on how to discover, predict and use modern technology to create innovative ideas.
Ideas Design Unit : It is the foundation of the program and the base upon which the training journey for the program was built. Through it, the trainee can learn about idea design/generation as an approach based on human innovation and as a powerful creative process for solving problems, which can be applied to various industries. When design and idea generation approaches are applied in businesses, the success rate of their innovation processes improves significantly.
Entrepreneurship Unit : The model reveals the basic concepts of entrepreneurship, providing precise instructions and a set of basic tools that are of interest to entrepreneurs who are about to launch their projects in the future. This model works to develop the entrepreneurial skills that are greatly needed by local and multinational companies.
OBJECTIVES
The InnovEgypt program aims to provide a base of innovators and competent entrepreneurs from university students trained on best practices, accumulated experiences, and lessons learned. The main objectives of the program include:
Provide basic knowledge of innovation and technology management
Enabling students to generate innovative ideas that address real-world challenges using structured methods to stimulate and stimulate ideas (what is known as brainstorming).
Raising awareness of the importance of protecting innovation through intellectual property rights and related topics such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
Develop entrepreneurial skills by introducing the basic concepts of entrepreneurship
An interactive learning application that provides the basic tools needed to start startup projects
Advantages
The program is useful and effective as follows
Develop students' entrepreneurial capabilities in a range of contexts
Urging learners to establish new projects after graduation and take risks in them
Raising awareness of intellectual assets
Enhancing students’ abilities to manage and exploit these assets
Creating a base of talent and competencies for local companies
Establishing communities for entrepreneurs and networks for creatives and innovators
Contributing to local/regional economic growth
Standards Admissions
Graduates of 2013 or later.
Priority is given to final-age students from colleges related to information and communications technology and those with experience from other colleges (faculties of engineering, colleges of computers and information, computer departments in colleges of science, engineering institutes, or colleges of e-commerce and information systems) and who are knowledgeable, knowledgeable, and have experience in one of these technologies :
-Sensing and Mobility IoT
- Artificial intelligence AI
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0
Proficiency in English is preferred.
The applicant must not have attended InnovEgypt training before.
Participants’ commitment to attend the camp program for 5 days, 5 hours per day.
The following are preferred in addition to the above
Active participation in one of the university’s student organizations and/or volunteering in social support services outside the university. .
The student must have leadership skills and the ability to work as a team member .
The student must be interested in working as an entrepreneur in the field of information technology.
Requirements for obtaining InnovEgypt certification
Completion of all required activities and tasks
Attending the first and second days at one of Egypt’s digital Creativa centers
Submit all required forms (project - evaluation)
Successfully attending and passing the final pitching of the project
How to apply for the program ?
Students who meet the stated registration requirements must complete all of the following steps to register:
Register first through the InnovEgypt registration form for 2024
You will be contacted by email to confirm your acceptance.
Confirm your acceptance using the link in the email.
Please do not confirm unless you are sure and intend to participate so that we can count the actual number of attendees.
The final list for each course and group will be announced on the official InnovEgypt Facebook page.
Please arrive on time.
Deadline
January 25th - February 1st, Deadline January 15th, 2024
February 3rd - February 8th, Deadline January 25th, 2024
February 7th - February 12th, Deadline January 28th, 2024
February 17th - February 22nd, Deadline February 5th, 2024
Find application form here