LINKING INDUSTRIES TO UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION ANDYOUTH
Scientific research and innovation, when channeled to meet the needs of the industrial
sector, play an essential role in the progress of societies in various fields.Together they
constitute a driving force that leads the society to step up the economic growth rates.
The initiative of linking industries to university education and youth aims to create a nucleus for applied scientific research since it plays an effective role in increasing the compet itiveness of Egypt's industrial sector worldwide.This is done through launching a program that is directed to the students of the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Agriculture at Egyptian Universities.
The program aims to channel the efforts of research, development, and innovation to
tackling the technical challenges facing Egyptian industry, i.e. factories' technical problems
that need unconventional solutions.This can be achieved by supporting ingenious
graduation projects in different departments of the faculties of engineering, science and
agriculture nationwide.
560 Graduation Projects
56 Faculties
1,500 Students
50 Specialists from Teaching Staff Members and Industrial Sector
Programme Goals:
Channel the efforts of research, development, and innovation to tackling the challenges
facing Egyptian industry
Encourage cooperation at the national and regional levels among the research and
industrial institutions, in collaboration with the civil society
Enhance the idea of research and innovation as an effective tool that is necessary
to increase the competitiveness of the Egyptian industrial stablishments
Enhance the idea of research and innovation as an effective tool to help the graduates
of scientific faculties seek good work opportunities
The Programme' idea is based on providing financial support in the form of awards for:
Innovative graduation projects proposed by final academic year students of the
faculties of engineering, science and agriculture at Egyptian universities
Ingenious ideas of non-graduation projects
In addition to 20 grants for M.A. students and 5 grants for Ph.D. students
Support is provided in the form of financial grants presented through a competition to select the most innovative graduation projects.The competition is announced at the beginning of the academic year. Each grant (award) amounts to 6000 EGP
Another competition to select innovative ideas that are not graduation-related projects is also announced. Each grant (award) amounts to 4000 EGR Additionally, 20 grants are presented to M.A. students and 15 grants are presented to Ph.D. students, i.e.
I 0 grants for each faculty, 5 for innovative graduation projects, and 5 for non-graduation
projects. At the end of the academic year a ceremony is held to honor the best three projects where an award of 20,000 EGP will be granted to each project.
Innovative Ideas Competition
This competition, which is announced at the beginning of the academic year, aims to
enable faculty students to develop their research capabilities in theory and in practice
and urge them to adopt innovative thinking that is not just limited to the graduation
projects that they have to come up with to obtain their B.Sc. from the Faculties of
Engineering. The awards amount of 4000 EGP each. IMC organizes a ceremony at the
end of the academic year to demonstrate the winner projects, honor the winning
groups, select the best three winner projects, and grant a financial award of 20,000 EGP
to each winner.
