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Futurize Your Course Competition

  1. Research at AUC
  2. Research and Creativity Convention (RCC)
  3. Futurize Your Course Competition

March 24, 2027 
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
P007 Hall

Imagine teaching your course after 20 years. What will change during that time? What will you be teaching? How will you be teaching it? How will society differ? How might higher education change? How will our learners change? How will working life be? What kind of technology will overtake the world? What kind of global challenges will young people be grappling with? How will these changes affect your discipline's purpose, meaning and practice of teaching and learning?

The world today is dynamically growing and developing. If you are interested in reimagining what your course might look like in 20 years, we invite you to join and participate in The Research and Creativity Convention 2027: Futurize Your Course Pitch Competition at The American University in Cairo. This will give you the chance to envision, design and pitch (in five minutes to a panel of judges) a course that would be taught at AUC in 20 years.

Activity Objectives

  • Provide faculty and students with the opportunity to collaborate on creating new and effective forms of teaching.

  • Demonstrate the university's commitment to innovation and fostering academic excellence.

  • Showcase the creativity and ingenuity of the research conducted by faculty and students.

Guidelines

This event encourages teams to consider:

  • The value and importance of the redesigned course for students and society

  • The creativity and innovation involved in the redesigned course

  • The realism or feasibility of the redesigned course

  • The research and preparation put into designing the new course

Who Can Participate?

  • Teams must include three members, including at least one faculty member and one student. Optional members can be faculty, staff directly involved in teaching and learning, students or teaching assistants.

  • Teams must be led by one full-time AUC faculty member.

  • All members must be affiliated with The American University in Cairo.

  • Teams can be interdisciplinary.

  • Each team gets a 15-minute slot (five minutes to pitch their course and 10 minutes to answer the judges' questions).

  • Previous winners are ineligible to compete.

Who Can Attend? 

Anyone can attend the competition as part of the audience.

Awards

  • First place: EGP 30,000
  • Second place: EGP 20,000 
  • Third place: EGP 10,000

Submission Deadline

Early submission for proposals: December 12, 2026

Submit Your Proposal