Sarah Djekreif - Algeria
A group of young Algerian researchers and innovators has established a national academy of creativity and innovation to bring together creators in all fields to support innovation and invention in Algeria.
The Academy seeks to introduce the basic tools of innovation and invention and to open up new horizons for creative young people in collaboration with specialists, researchers and experts, and to clarify and develop the features of research, invention and innovation at the national level.
The Academy came in response to the need of Algerian youth and innovators who are heading towards this field. In 2017, Algeria recorded more than 145 patents, according to statistics provided by the Director General of the Algerian Industrial Property Institute, Abdelhafiz Ben Mehdi.
The Academy works to preserve the intellectual production of Algerians both legally and through the registration of patents or in economic and commercial terms by accompanying them to introduce their inventions and innovations and to open investment opportunities.
| " Algeria registered more than 145 patents in 2017 " |
Academy, headed by a young inventor
The Academy is headed by the Algerian young man Faouzi Ben Rahma, an innovator who has three technological titles in Britain. The first is the title of the best inventor and the best patent in London in 2015 and 2016, respectively, after his invention of a solar phone charger. In Britain in the Market Maker competition.
Founded in Algiers since its establishment in 2018, the Academy has created a suitable environment to benefit from the innovations and inventions of Algerians. Its main objective is to create the right environment by bringing together creators and inventors in various fields, introducing various creative and innovative tools and opening new horizons. They have. The Academy relies on three main aspects: economy, invention and innovation.
| Fawzi bin Rahma combines the specialization of trade and marketing and the specialty of automated media (Al Jazeera) |
Various activities to serve innovators
In the framework of stimulating and serving young innovators, the Academy organizes monthly forum seminars at the Academy and invites interested people to attend and create a bridge of communication between specialists and youth, in addition to recording and interviewing Algerian inventors and innovators inside or outside the country.
It also works to produce specialized scientific journals, organize scientific and intellectual seminars, encourage scientific research for invention, and develop children's innovation skills by teaching them the basics of electronics and electricity and putting them in touch with young innovators and researchers in exchange of experiences.
| " The research and development unit, a specialized unit in scientific research, promotes scientific research for invention and develops the skills of innovation in children by teaching them the basics of electronics and electricity and putting them in contact with young people. Innovators and researchers in an exchange of experiences " |
The Academy also seeks to establish an electronic library of specialists and researchers, in view of its belief in the importance of references in any scientific research.
In addition, the Academy, through scientific events interested in this area, strengthen the role of educational institutions and research centers in Algeria and engage in this endeavor.
To achieve these goals, the Academy receives the support and sponsorship of Algerian researchers abroad, private and public economic institutions, as well as the contributions of citizens and young people interested in innovation and invention.
A recognition of the inventor who has resisted ignorance
The Academy, through its accompanying member, the Algerian inventor Souké Abdel Halim, contributed to the exploitation of the public energy economy system that Abdel Halim had developed over the years.
The inventor Abdul Halim in collaboration with the Academy presented his invention to the Minister of Interior and Local Communities and Urbanization Mr. Noureddine Badawi, who oversaw the signing of joint financing agreements to replace the mercury lamps with lamps of economic lighting, invented by Abdel Halim, for the benefit of 33 Algerian municipalities distributed across different regions of Algeria , In order to rationalize the consumption of electricity.
Al-Jazeera.net was published in 2016, an article entitled "Abdel Halim Soukie, an Algerian inventor who has resisted ignorance since 1993." The new inventor himself, in cooperation with the Academy, has imposed on officials to rely on his apparatus for the use of electric energy in public lighting lamps and face Energy challenges.