Research and Creativity Convention (RCC) 2025
February 23 - 27, 2025 — AUC New Cairo
The RCC provides a platform for researchers, both AUC faculty and students, to promote their work and communicate with their peers. The event enhances knowledge-sharing, encourages interdisciplinary research collaboration, and supports projects that help local communities or generate economic value.
The RCC highlights AUC’s strategic priorities, strengthens the University’s research capacity, invigorates campus creativity, and explores critical issues across the region and the globe. By highlighting the original research and creativity projects from the AUC community in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, and the arts, this event demonstrates the breadth and depth of the institution’s research mission.
Research and Creativity Convention
The RCC provides a platform for researchers, both AUC faculty and students, to promote their work and communicate with their peers.
Highlights and Winners
Undergraduate Students Activities
EURECA in RCC
Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Entrepreneurship, and Creative Achievement (EURECA) contribution in RCC includes presentations from various activities.
Science Slam
The Science Slam invites young researchers to show their innovative ideas in a creative and concise presentation to a non-specialized audience.
Graduate Student Activities
Science Slam
The Science Slam invites young researchers to show their innovative ideas in a creative and concise presentation to a non-specialized audience.
Graduate Poster Competition
This activity invites graduate students to present their research using posters and engage a "walking" audience through text and attractive visuals.
Liberal Arts Symposium
The Liberal Arts Symposium is a multidisciplinary platform that invites faculty and graduate students from across disciplines to share their current research and teaching innovations and engage in critical discussions about their professional practices.
MA Capstone Screening Session
This screening will feature capstone projects produced by graduate students which have won awards at the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts 2024 and 2025.
Faculty Activities
Liberal Arts Symposium
The Liberal Arts Symposium is a multidisciplinary platform that invites faculty and graduate students from across disciplines to share their current research and teaching innovations and engage in critical discussions about their professional practices.
Faculty Research Pitch Competition
Present your research in a three-minute pitch, and compete before a panel of judges and an audience for competition awards.
Futurize Your Course Competition
The world is changing rapidly. If you are interested in reimagining what your course might look like in 20 years, then we invite you to join with others at AUC and participate in the RCC 2024: Futurize Your Course Competition.
Community Activities and Beyond
Design Thinking Day Long Sprint
This hands-on design thinking event is designed to introduce you to this creative approach to problem-solving, where you will learn the tools, mindsets and frameworks of design thinking.