JEDDAH — Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC) Saturday awarded winners of “University Innovation Challenge for Sustainable Development”, which it launched in partnership with the Ministry of Education, UNDP Saudi office, and the Babson Global Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (BGCEL).
15 Saudi universities competed with the aim of developing innovative thinking at young minds through stimulating them to find innovative solutions for global challenges.
Qassim University won the first place, King Abdulaziz University won the second place and Dar Al-Hekma University took third, where each participating student will receive a participation certificate.
Students who passed the training camp will receive certificates showing they have been chosen for the final national competition under a plan that seeks to encourage universities to form teams of students with various scientific backgrounds to enhance the team spirit and collective work to develop and find unique solutions.
The college, the first of its kind in being specialized in entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia, stressed that this competition supports sustainable creativity practices and facing global sustainable challenges. The “University Innovation Challenge for Sustainable Development” was allocated for senior students, focusing on finding innovative and entrepreneur solutions, and applying their knowledge through identifying and evaluating opportunities.
The college also enables competing students who reach the final stages through innovative solutions for entrepreneurship to establish a new profit or non-profit project to be implemented in Saudi Arabia, putting the training camp held between March 24 and 26, 2022 at MBSC headquarters of finalists in an intensified program to mold their suggestions and putting them in final forms they offered to the jury.
Each winning team will be granted the opportunity to attend Babson Build program for a week at the Babson College in the US in next July.
MBSC's launching of this competition is out of its belief for what the higher education sector represents as a main element in enhancing and adopting the Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals in Saudi Arabia.
From the 50 colleges and universities in Saudi Arabia, students and future entrepreneurs can learn and share SDGs to enhance entrepreneurs solutions to face local and national development challenges. — SPA
