Today, the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry opened the door for registration for the second round of the Future Pioneers Award, which targets university and school students with creations and ideas that can be converted into projects.
"The success achieved by the previous session was reflected in achieving the goal for which the initiative was launched, which is to spread and promote a culture of entrepreneurship and inculcate concepts of creativity and innovation in society, as a basis for achieving sustainable development and quality of life," said the Chamber's deputy director general, Abdullah Ghurair Al Qubaisi. He explained, "The current session is receiving the attention of many strategic partners who share the chamber to support young people who have ideas in the field of business, as the chamber gives valuable financial rewards besides providing financing opportunities by the Khalifa Fund for Projects Financing and patenting these ideas with the Department of Mieh economic. "
Al-Qubaisi stated, "The chamber also aims to rehabilitate the young generation and enable it to enter the business world through training workshops and courses, in order to gain students, whether in schools or universities, the necessary skills and a sound understanding of private work."
Al Qubaisi added, “The award, at its first session, was able to achieve strong and qualitative contributions from the creativity and innovation of creative students and owners of distinguished ideas. The main drivers of economic growth and improving productivity worldwide, and the UAE is one of the developed countries that have attached special importance to innovation in enhancing its orientations towards building a diversified and sustainable economy, which is in line with the strategy of the Abu Dhabi Chamber.
Al Qubaisi emphasized the great success achieved in the first edition of the award, which recorded about 1,400 participants, most of whom underwent training and attended workshops in proportion to their age groups, and benefited from the amount of information, knowledge and experience they gained to be qualified and distinguished entrepreneurs in the future, based on the best International studies, practices and experiences, stressing that the Future Pioneers Award provides a real opportunity for young and young entrepreneurs to present their ideas, innovations and commercial and technological projects in an interactive platform with a special exhibition in front of the public, as well as enabling them to develop and refine their ideas, and Configured to be a viable future project idea.
He pointed out that there are three ideas for distinguished and innovative projects that were adopted from the first session of the program, and secured for the owners of the patent and its financing in the future, after it fulfills all the procedural conditions, and confirmed that there are posts from 3000 participants expected to register in the second copy of the award.
Al-Qubaisi indicated that the Future Pioneers Award for its second session will include 15 awards, divided into 3 categories, which are the category of school students from the second cycle of education, the category of school students from the third cycle of education, and the group of university students, so that the average ages of students from (8 to 25 years) ) As the prize targets students of schools, universities, government and private colleges in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
It is worth noting that the award has a website that includes all the resources and data that the participants need and in a manner that is appropriate for their age to start thinking about creating the project idea, in addition to what the award office will do in coordination with the coordinators and supervisors of the students.
The award activities will include organizing the exhibition dedicated to showcasing projects and innovations, and will include 100 projects that have the opportunity to compete through a comprehensive platform, to start the three stages of evaluating projects, on the basis of which the winners will be chosen. Each category is awarded 5 awards, which is the best investment project idea, the best investment innovation, the best product for investment, the best technical project, the best category of marketing and mobile applications.