15 teams successfully complete HBKU’s capacity building workshops

15 teams successfully complete HBKU’s capacity building workshops

The Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Innovation Centre has marked the halfway point in the second cycle of its Education City Innovative Entrepreneurship Programme (ECIEP) with a graduation and awards ceremony.Held at Education City’s Minaretein, the ceremony, according to a statement from HBKU, celebrated the conclusion of ECIEP’s Capacity Building Workshops. Organised in partnership with the Qatar Development Bank (QDB), participants from 15 teams undertook a range of capacity building activities designed specifically to strengthen their entrepreneurial skills. Every team also competed for a share of ECIEP’s Entrepreneurship Programme Funds, which are allocated to the five most promising business plans.In the presence of HBKU’s deans, executive directors and senior QDB staff, the Innovation Centre certified all participants in the Capacity Building Workshops and awarded Entrepreneurship Programme Funds. Several HBKU faculty and research staff were honoured. They included Dr Rashad al-Gaashani from Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Dr Kabir H Biswas from the College of Health and Life Science (CHLS), Dr Tanvir Alam from the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and Dr Jens Schneider from the College of Science and Engineering (CSE). Additionally, the Innovation Centre recognised Boshra Rasti Ghalati from the Qatar Academy for Science and Technology