ACK sponsors innovation and entrepreneurship tour in UAE

The Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) recently organized and sponsored a highly successful 2020 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tour to the United Arab Emirates, with nine impressive students participating from the School of Business and the School of Engineering.

The four-day international educational tour highlighted innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability initiatives in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The program featured visits to the UAE’s leading start-up incubators and accelerators, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (the largest gathering of sustainability in the Middle East), Masdar City, 3M

Innovation Center and the forward-thinking Arbor School. The students met a number of entrepreneurs who generously shared their advice and insights, followed by an opportunity to pitch their start up ideas at Krypto Labs, where they received valuable feedback and encouragement to implement their start-up ideas.

Another highlight of the tour was visiting Expo 2020 Dubai, the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. The students received an overview of the expo, followed by presentations from the Expo 2020’s innovation and sustainability experts and a fascinating behind-the-scenes bus tour of the expo’s construction site.

Commenting on the great benefit the tour had on the participating students, ACK International Affairs Manager, Ms Johanne Flynn said, “UAE is widely known as an international hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, and this tour provides our students with opportunities to connect theory to a wide range of real-world initiatives, attend international events, meet inspiring entrepreneurs, innovators and educators, and to further develop their own entrepreneurial mindset and start-up ideas before they graduate.”