Saturday, January 21, 2023 – 12:31 PM
DUBAI, 21st January, 2020 (WAM) — Dubai Customs launched the Intellectual Property Award for Schools and Universities 2023. The Intellectual Property Rights Protection Department allocated this year’s award to projects prepared by school and university students to design a smart application or innovation that serves as a training platform and communication tool with the community, to raise awareness and education in the field of Intellectual property, in addition to determining the content of the smart application and the standards and basics it contains.
The department indicated the conditions for participating in the award, which is the completion of a project by a team of school and university students and a supervisor who leads the team, and the submitted idea is new and has not been previously presented by any other party.
The deadline for submitting applications for participation in the award ends on January 30, and the delivery of participating projects ends on April 10, so that the winners will be announced on April 26, which coincides with World Intellectual Property Day.
Dubai Customs implements this award at the level of all schools and universities in the country in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Emirates Foundation for School Education. Since its launch in 2007, the number of students participating in the award has reached about 31,000 students distributed among 188 schools and 13 participating universities.
Youssef Uzair Mubarak, Director of the Intellectual Property Protection Department, said that the award aims to enhance awareness and education on the importance of intellectual property protection, and encourage students to be creative, develop, research and innovate. In order to raise the rank occupied by the UAE at the global level in the field of intellectual property protection, innovation and leadership in customs work, in support of the efforts to develop the national economy and keep pace with the D33 plan, which aims to double the size of Dubai’s economy during the next decade to be among the 3 best economic cities in the world.
He added that the Dubai Customs Intellectual Property Award has been launched since 2007 as part of the plan of the Department of Intellectual Property Rights Protection at Dubai Customs, which seeks to achieve the largest possible community contributions, and encourage students to know their intellectual rights and how to preserve and protect these rights.
He stressed that the projects submitted for the award are evaluated by a specialized arbitration committee that applies several criteria for evaluation in accordance with the latest technologies and tools in the field of smart applications of information technology, noting that the categories to which the award is directed are students of public and private schools and universities residing in the UAE, and students with determination, and allows participation for different generations of students at all academic levels, down to university students.
The Director of the Department of Intellectual Property Rights Protection at Dubai Customs added that the department accompanies the launch of the award by organizing events in universities and schools continuously to raise awareness of intellectual property rights and the dangers and damages of counterfeit goods.
Islama Al-Hussein / Muhammad Jabullah
