The Industry-Academia Collaboration Hub will be launched during the 41st edition of GITEX Technology Week. With the new strategic partnership between Global Innovation & Entrepreneurship Company (GIE) and Gitex Youthx Unipreunre organizers during Gitex Future Stars events, which attaches particular importance to Emirati and Arab youth participation and discussing their role in shaping the future.
The Industry-Academic Collaboration Hub is a new project that fosters the activation of cooperation between government agencies, academic institutions, and industry institutions as part of an Arab regional strategy. After qualifying them in centres of creativity and invention and working to spread the culture of entrepreneurship, this step will be reflected in the involvement of young people in future development plans. In collaboration with the corporate sector and under the canopy of governmental ambitions, the hub will also work to improve education quality and the efficiency of young cadres in meeting the demands of the digital economy system.
Commenting on this statement, Eng. Mohammed Abboud, Chairman of GIE, said: “We are pleased to announce this partnership, which resulted in the launch of the Industry-Academia Collaboration Hub, explaining that the initiative will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between the young Arab cadres’ skills and the successive requirements of international businesses and companies, especially after the negative effects of the global pandemic of Covid-19 which put us today in a race against time to maximize the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in various key sectors that are on track to digital transformation, such as e-learning, smart transportation and digital services needed by Arab and regional communities.
It’s worth mentioning that the Industry Academia Collaboration Hub is launched in partnership with a number of concerned bodies from various Arab countries: UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Lebanon.
