The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Al-Aboudi, launched the Ecosystem project for the University of Technology and emphasized the promotion of the university’s productive environment and the empowerment of graduates to entrepreneurship, program industry, and innovation.

During the launching ceremony of the Ecosystem project, in the presence of a number of university presidents, academics and representatives of the private sector, the Minister of Education said that this project constitutes a qualitative asset of human capital and an important pillar towards development and strengthening the university’s productive environment, program industry and project innovation.

He added that the law of the Ministry of Higher Education, which provided for quantitative and qualitative changes in the scientific, technical and cultural movement and keeping pace with indicators of modernization in the fields of knowledge, made educational institutions in continuous interaction with the needs of society and the requirements of development.

The Minister of Education continued that the Ecosystem project at the University of Technology comes in the context of enabling young graduates to ascend the platform of ambition and achieve real work steps through productive partnerships with private sector institutions that attract entrepreneurs and owners of ideas and projects.

For his part, the Undersecretary of the Ministry for Scientific Research Affairs, Haider Abd Dhahad, reviewed the stages of establishing the Ecosystem and its working mechanisms in accordance with the aspirations and strategy of the Ministry aimed at achieving the project of productive, supportive universities that meet the needs of the labor market.

In this context, the President of the University of Technology explained that it has been diligently finding solutions to address the employment of graduates and enable them to form partnerships that serve the areas of entrepreneurship, while systems and project management experts gave a presentation on the importance of the Ecosystem in consolidating cooperation with the private sector, attracting graduates and implementing projects.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research