Thursday, September 14, 2023 – 6:34 pm
Dubai, September 14 / WAM / The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme, hosted a group of students over the course of a full day in interactive sessions and workshops held under the title “Advancing Data as an Entrepreneur’s Guide” as part of the activities of the intensive training program organized by the Company. Huawei and Purpose in Motion; To support university students within the framework of a development program designed for young entrepreneurs.
This program aims to empower young entrepreneurs in the world within the framework of the vision of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, which aims to support and empower young university students around the world, enhance their spirit of technological entrepreneurship, and provide them with the skills and tools to transform their ideas into successful projects.
The program will be held over the course of a week from September 11 to 15 in Dubai, and provides intensive training in technological entrepreneurship for 40 of the best university students from the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, who were nominated from an initial group of 120 students.
His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, Executive Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, stressed the Foundation’s keenness to empower young people with knowledge and lay the foundations of knowledge societies and economies by continuing to support the younger generation and providing them with educational and training content to develop their skills, enhance their prospects for success, and expand the scope of their involvement as they are the driving force for transforming ambitions. And development aspirations into reality.
Bin Huwaireb pointed out that the Young Entrepreneurs Program will contribute to building the capabilities of university students from various parts of the world, through intensive training in technological entrepreneurship, stressing the importance of cooperation with world-leading institutions in implementing this program, which will have a positive impact in empowering and motivating a new generation. One of the pioneers of technology entrepreneurs in the Arab world.
He said that cooperation with leading technology companies such as “Huawei” in implementing this program provides a unique entry into the technology industry and contributes to enhancing awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship in the field of technology, noting that such cooperation also confirms the institution’s commitment to promoting innovation, education and entrepreneurship.
He stated that the entities with which the Foundation has cooperated are pioneers in their fields of work, as Huawei is a prominent global company in the field of providing information and communications technology infrastructure and smart devices, while its “Seed for the Future” program is a global program in corporate social responsibility aimed at developing talents. Young women and encourage participation in building digital societies, while “Purpose in Motion” represents a prestigious organization that works to empower young people to become leaders and owners of a vision and mission.
For his part, Dr. Hani Al Turki, Chief Technical Advisor and Director of the Knowledge Project at the United Nations Development Programme, said that the role of the program goes beyond the issue of entrepreneurship among young people and enhancing their creative abilities in this field, and extends to focusing on the importance of building knowledge societies. He added: “Our cooperation with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, Huawei, Purpose in Motion, and Seed for the Future in this initiative comes within the framework of concerted efforts to support and nurture innovation and entrepreneurship among the youth segment and enable them to develop ideas that can Transforming them into successful projects and providing them with the skills and knowledge necessary to develop and manage these projects, enabling them to carry out their own work, achieve success and prosperity in their professional and personal lives, and contribute to achieving economic and social development.”
As part of the programme, on September 12, a full-day event was held in Dubai, which included a lecture by Anthony Isay, co-founder and COO of Podeo, and was organized by the UNDP Knowledge Project and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, as well as the granting of exclusive free licenses. For participants in the skills program of the program and the institution.
Munira Al-Sumaiti / Ibrahim Nuseirat
2023-09-14 14:37:05
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