An introductory seminar on the activities of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center “I-HUB” for students of the Faculty of Arts

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit at the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University organized a symposium to introduce students to the I-hub Center and its activities, under the auspices of Prof. Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Hanan Kamel, Dean of the Faculty, and under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Ibrahim, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Hatem Rabie, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Muhammad Al-Behairi, Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Dr. Hazem Farrag, Director of the ihub unit at the Faculty, who in turn confirmed that the unit constantly seeks to hold these introductory seminars every year to encourage new students to join its various activities and benefit from its services, with the aim of preparing the student to be armed with the skills required for entrepreneurship by benefiting from its services, which are represented in helping students on how to establish companies, and supporting them financially by financing the project after its launch and conducting a feasibility study for it, it also embraces students since joining the university to develop innovation skills.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center also competes with the Greek Campus at the American University to support innovation. And partnership with some international universities. He also stressed the diligent work to increase the activities provided year after year. He also called on students to form groups and work teams that present out-of-the-box and creative ideas aimed at profit. The developers at the center develop these different ideas and work to implement them on the ground. Reality and competition around the centers determines the priority in implementation. He also called on students to invest in this opportunity provided by the university to advance student projects and put them into practice, and not to waste their time just watching the work of others, but rather in planning and implementing innovative projects inspired by the need for invention.

For her part, Mrs. Engy Ali, the iclub project coordinator at the university’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, posted an explanatory video to introduce the center’s establishment and activities, and shows a tour of its halls, as well as its role in linking college students with the center, and forming members from each college through the iclub, the goal of which is to graduate 40 startup companies from different sectors. The colleges also introduced the location of the building located in the city to students of Ain Shams University, and also reviewed the partnership with a university in Germany. They also confirmed that these activities aim to break the obsession with failure among students to penetrate the field of entrepreneurship at an early age during their education at the university.

She emphasized that there are three foundations for establishing any company, which are: (leader ship - team work - communications), while emphasizing that creativity does not come by nature only, but can be acquired, and that any creativity or production cannot be individual, explaining

The basis of entrepreneurship is passion, and she explained the difference between an employee in an organization and an entrepreneur, and the value of exploiting and seizing the appropriate time in completing projects and penetrating the market. She also emphasized the importance of learning languages and computer proficiency, and the importance of competitions, camps, and workshops, as well as the importance of knowing the mechanisms of digital and direct marketing and she emphasized that business is team work and is not difficult.

She also directed the students to break the barrier between them and their dream. She said that Edison failed 99 times before completing the invention of electricity. She also stressed that a person’s development comes through determination to acquire new abilities and skills on a daily basis.

She also shed light on the “Ain Shams Innovates” project, which is that everyone has an innovative idea

This idea is presented to an investor who supports and develops it; There are 160 startup companies and the Entrepreneurship Club is the link between the college and “I-HUB”.

She called for the rapid formation of an ethics team and the rapid submission of innovative ideas for applications and companies in order to strive to implement them as soon as possible. For her part, Mrs. Hadeer Yahya, a business development specialist at Banque Misr initiative, which provides Entrepreneurship Club students with a training opportunity, feasibility study, design a business model, calculate everything and convert it into numbers and money to develop and finance projects.

It also reviewed financing opportunities, not only for Banque Misr, in addition to contributing to establishing a credit and tax file, facilitating obtaining financing loans, and also providing training opportunities through the initiative. It offered a training link and added that the bank enables students to obtain a Meeza card for free to facilitate electronic payment and financial transactions.