The Faculty of Al-Alsun at Ain Shams University, in cooperation with ASU-iHub Center and the students of ASU-IClub, organized an introductory symposium entitled “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, under the patronage of Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty, and supervised by Prof. Nasser Abdel-Al, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Youmna Safwat, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Dr. Doaa Seif, Advisor of scientific committee at Youth Welfare, and Dr. Nahid Raheel, field training coordinator at the Faculty, where, Dr. Islam Adel, Student Activities Officer at the University’s Innovation Center, gave a lecture.

Prof. Nasser Abdel-Al, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Education and Student Affairs, opened the symposium activities, stressing that thinking in a different way and having innovative solutions to provide new services to society is the main gateway to lifting the barriers between the different sciences, integrating the study of languages and excelling in them within the Faculty of Al-Alsun, and using the various sciences to integrate them in an innovative way to provide solutions of many challenges facing the community surrounding the student after his graduation.

While Dr. Islam Adel, Student Activities Officer at the University’s Innovation Center, discussed klthe beginning of the idea of the University’s Innovation Center, which was established in 2013 and was limited to students and graduates of the Faculty of Engineering. By the year 2019, the university’s administration realized that innovation was a field open to all practical and theoretical faculties in all their specializations, and the center works Innovation aims to implant innovative methods in the minds of students, in addition to acquiring scientific material through acquiring skills that can be adapted to serve the state and the ability to implement them, unlike pre-university education.

He added that creating a culture of innovation among students includes preparing an employee graduate who works in state institutions, and another who innovates in entrepreneurship with the aim of creating an integrated community environment aimed at serving the nation effectively.

He reviewed the latest partnership between the university and the Technical University of Berlin in Germany to help qualify the university’s entrepreneurial community through various activities, the most important of which is the summer school in Germany and the winter school in Egypt. The program ended with the launch of Micro Credential MBA.

Explaining that innovation is creating a new idea outside the box that helps serve society in one way or another.​