Welcome to Young Innovators' Awards Program

To empower youth, develop skills and create better links between industry and research, the Young Innovators’ Awards (YIA) Program aims at stimulating the culture of Research & Development (R&D) in Egypt by providing young Egyptian scientists with multiple opportunities to engage in R&D. Over the past three years, the YIA has awarded over 700,000 EGP to over 1,000 students in universities throughout Egypt!

Here are the resources we offer. Click the links to find out more information and how to apply:

An annual competition to provide 6,000 EGP to 4^th year/graduating students’ graduation projects and 4,000 EGP to any other young Egyptians with ideas for innovative projects.
The annual Samsung Real Dreams Award Program, which provides 10,000 EGP grants to student groups who have developed innovative prototypes and want to begin manufacturing their product.
Internships with many of the top companies in Egypt, for undergraduates in the faculties of Engineering, Agriculture, or Science who want to gain professional experience.
Scholarships of up to 24,000 EGP annually for Engineering, Agriculture, and Science graduates to pursue their Masters or PhD degrees.

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A Student's Testimonial

“I have said it before but I want to say it again. Joining the YIA program was an invaluable experience to me. It isn’t only a matter of funding our project; it is me gaining a lot of experience through Nahdet El Mahrousa’s (NM) awareness lectures and excellent connections with great people as Ms. Nada El Gammal and Mr. Mohamed El Zarkani. They are extremely helpful, friendly and self motivated people. They did their best to motivate us along the year to do our best at our project and to put high goals for our career. I do believe that NM succeeded in achieving their direct and indirect goals of the YIA program. For their direct goals, three ladies in our team got hired in multi-national companies in the Communications Industry. Moreover, I got a scholarship from University of Toronto to pursue my Masters degree because of my experience I gained in my graduation project. As for their indirect goals, they built our self confidence, self-motivation and mutual trust.Finally, I’d like to thank everyone at NM for their great effort to improve our community & Keep up the great work!'' Ayman Mohamed Shalaby - Alexandria University – Faculty of Engineering

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YIA News

Timeline for Disbursement of Funds to the Winners of the YIA Annual Student Competition

The YIA is nearly finished selecting the winners of its annual competition! In mid July, 2009 winners will be receiving their grant of 6,000 EGP (for Graduation Projects) or 4,000 EGP (for other innovative projects).

Announcing the Samsung Real Dreams Awards (SRDA), the newest program from the YIA!

This exciting new initiative offers 10,000 EGP to student groups to develop their prototypes into products! Click here for more information (application deadline is July 7th ,2009). Also, sign up for one of our upcoming information sessions.

YIA Launches Internship Program in Partnership with the Industrial Modernisation Centre (IMC)

The IMC-YIA Internship Program will help connect Egypt’s best and brightest Engineering, Agriculture, and Science undergraduate students with many of Egypt’s top organizations in the fields. Click here for the application and rules (application deadline is August 1^st, 2009).

YIA Launches Scholarship Program in Partnership with the Industrial Modernisation Centre (IMC)

The program will offer graduates of Engineering, Agriculture, and Science the chance to apply for 12,000 EGP annually to pursue their Masters Degree or 24,000 EGP annually to pursue their PhD at universities throughout Egypt. Click here for more information.

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The YIA signs a partnership with the Industrial Modernization Center

Preliminary talks of cooperation and pooling of synergies with the Industrialization Modernization Center ("IMC") in June- July materialized at the end of the summer with major cooperation, a cooperation that provided the YIA program with nothing short of a "quantum leap!" The IMC provided 110 awards (EGP4000 each) for graduation projects, 5 for each of Egypt's national universities; another 110 awards (EGP2000 each) for any innovative idea related to the industry regardless of class standing; 20 scholarships for MSC students, each worth EGP15000/year up to 2 years; 15 awards for Ph.D. students, each worth EGP20000/year up to 3 years; and another 3 awards, worth EGP20000 for the best three graduation projects at the end of the year.The partnership helps the IMC to achieve one of its core mandates, which is fostering the culture of research and development in Egypt and connecting it to the industry, by pooling synergies with the NGO represented in the Nahdet El-Mahrousa’s YIA Program, the originator and developer of the idea and the project. The partnership brings the YIA to scale its project's activities up to achieve national coverage.

YIA Team Leader - Loay El Shawarby

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