The City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications won first place in the Alexandria region In the Egyptian Entrepreneurship League Competition

Prof. Dr. Mona Mahmoud Abdel Latif, Director of the City, announced the city’s victory in first place in the Egyptian Entrepreneurship League Competition for the year 2024 at the level of the Alexandria region in the final qualifiers of the league, under the auspices of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, where the city competed through its Entrepreneurship Club in this competition in two stages, the competition stage between research centers and universities in the Alexandria region at the Alexandria Library on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, with (6) universities, institutes and research bodies, where each of them participated with three projects, and the city qualified with one project for the league final from among (8) projects that were qualified for the final competition, which was held at Badr University on Sunday, August 25, 2024, where a total of (43) projects were arbitrated at the regional level, which are (7) regions at the republic level.

Prof. Dr. Mona Mahmoud Abdel Latif stressed that entrepreneurship is one of the most important sectors that contribute to the development of the economy, and that the city’s victory came within the framework of the city’s scientific expertise and material and human capabilities that qualify it to support entrepreneurs and embrace the creative and innovative ideas of young people in the field of scientific research and prepare the appropriate environment for the development of their projects to achieve sustainable development in accordance with the axes of the National Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation 2030, and also the axes of the National Strategy for Higher Education and Scientific Research, in addition to the efforts of a specialized and distinguished team from the Technology Innovation Commercialization Office (TICO) and the Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) in the city. It is worth noting that the winning research team from the city “Genestone” includes the principal researcher Dr. Ayat Mohamed El Maghraby, a researcher at the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, and the work team (Professor Dr. Salah Mahmoud Abdel Rahman, Engineer Menallah Mahmoud El Sherif, Engineer Sylvia Marcos Boutros, Professor John Sami Fikry). The team also won an award presented by the Egyptian-Chinese University for a project that serves the local manufacturing of materials used in the field of biotechnology and providing scientific services related to this field.