Technology, Research and Innovation Lab (TRI-Lab)

Over the past decade, Egypt has positioned science, technology and innovation as centerpieces of its Egypt Vision 2030 strategy with a focus on the production and localization of education and knowledge growth and transfer. To contribute to Egypt’s national development, AUC has made this mission a core element of its strategic vision and plans for future development of the New Cairo campus.

AUC’s Technology, Research and Innovation Lab (TRI-Lab) enables the University’s collaboration with industry market leaders and government initiatives in direct support of Egypt Vision 2030. The new paradigm of creating a technology hub within the University will not replace traditional learning and teaching methods; it will complement and enhance them to create a new economic and social value creation system that boosts innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit, leading to new industries and job creation in Egypt, Africa, and the MENA region as a whole.

AUC’s TRI-Lab will ensure the University is fully immersed and integrated into the new economic models of the 21st century, which Egypt is now embracing. The TRI-Lab will emphasize a strategy for exchanging and expanding skills and talents, springing inventiveness, development, forward-looking solutions, an entrepreneurial environment, a gender-equal spirit and commitment across all terrains, in particular advancing climate action.

The lab’s primary mission will be to bring real-world challenges into the classroom and research labs by connecting corporate research and innovative startups with AUC faculty and students. Additionally, the lab will create opportunities for students to utilize the connections they made and the campus facilities to innovate high-impact solutions. Its secondary mission will be to strengthen student understanding of the application of market-oriented economic principles, enabling them to integrate themselves —  and by extension, Egypt — into the global economy.

The 12,150-square-meter new technology, research and innovation facility creates the space for large-scale experimentation and product development, applied research labs. It will host coworking and learning spaces for students, faculty and alumni to engage and build their businesses. Today, dozens of AUC faculty are engaged in research tackling real-world problems of our time. The TRI-Lab enables partnerships with industry, NGOs and the public sector to expand the transfer of knowledge from the laboratory and classroom into real-world applications. The TRI-Lab will bring research, innovation, experimentation and commercialization under one roof, creating a space to translate research into industry partnerships and startups, particularly deep-tech ventures. The TRI-Lab will also include makerspaces for live prototyping as well as AI and digital-product facilities.
 

Committee Chair Members

Ayman Ismail, Associate Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and Founding Director, AUC Venture Lab

Lotfi Gaafar, Professor, Dean of the School of Science and Engineering

Hossam Sharara, Assistant Professor, department of computer science and engineering

Karim Seddik, Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research School of Sciences and Engineering

Dalia Abd ElGelil, Senior Director, Innovation Hub

Hala Barakat, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
 

Quick Facts

• 12,150 m2 total area

• Lab and learning factory spaces

• Massive spaces for large-scale experiments

• Home to AUC’s Venture Lab, Innovation Hub and Technology Transfer Office 

• From idea to product, all housed under one roof

• Co-working spaces for corporates and startups engaging with faculty and students