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AUC Climate Change Initiatives
November 10, AUC's Climate Change Initiative was established in response to worldwide climate change challenges and the active role academic and research institutions must play in understanding and addressing them. This initiative includes research, student activities, teaching and learning, as well as outreach activities. It draws on AUC’s extensive international network and rests on the academic and research expertise at the University’s departments and research centers.
Research Conferences and Academic Events
Innovation and Initiatives
AUC Venture Lab
AUC Venture Lab is Egypt’s first university-based startup accelerator and an award-winning accelerator in Africa and the MENA region. We support innovation-driven and passionate entrepreneurs looking to turn their solutions and technologies into viable businesses. Since 2013, we have accelerated more than 270 startups covering multiple sectors. We believe in evidence-based entrepreneurship and with the support of our expanded network, we provide you with the right business and specialized know-how, tools and resources to connect with the entrepreneurial world and reach your full potential.
Technology Transfer
The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) fosters commercial investment and licensing of inventions and discoveries flowing from the innovative research and creative endeavors conducted by the AUC community across all disciplines. By fostering campus-wide innovative intellectual, research and creative outputs, the TTO aims at supporting researchers and inventors in their research growth and societal impact.
AUC Spinoffs
A spin-off is a technology-based company formed to commercialize inventions made at the University and protected by intellectual property rights that are owned by AUC. Inventors may lead or participate in a spin-off in a variety of ways. AUC’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO) provides support for different aspects of forming a spinoff company. If you are an AUC researcher and interested in learning about how your AUC innovation can possibly be commercialized though a spin-off, reach out to the Technology Transfer Office who can offer the necessary advice.
AUC Innovation Hub
The AUC Innovation Hub (iHub) offers a platform with a supporting ecosystem for corporations, start-ups, AUC faculty members and students, to foster their collaboration in research and innovation with the aim of supporting them in co-creating and developing solutions for critical challenges facing Egypt and the region. Through the iHub, AUC aims at creating long-term partnerships for sustainable impacts nationally, regionally and globally. By offering its partners a location at the AUC New Cairo campus together with a rich set of services, facilities, tools, equipment and support, it allows them to work on strategic and cutting-edge projects benefiting from the expertise and networks of faculty members.
Bartlett Fund for Critical Challenges Research Initiative
The Bartlett Fund for Critical Challenges is an endowed fund to encourage research and other projects that address critical challenges in Egypt and more generally, the Middle East. The Fund is perpetual, intended to develop creative responses to challenges that are of significance for the future of Egypt and the region. The Fund provides support opportunities to the AUC community for creatively developing innovative solutions for these critical challenges.
AUC Knowledge Fountain
The repository is a service of AUC Libraries and Learning Technologies. Scholarly and creative works included here have been deposited by students, faculty, or the individual University departments and centers on campus.
