Higher Education

During the closing ceremony, the director of the Hassib Sabbagh IT Center at the University, Ms. Mays Awwad, graduated the participants and handed over certificates to them. The 5-day training program dealt with creating new job opportunities for graduates and promoting economic empowerment by strengthening support for Palestinian startups and entrepreneurs as well as encouraging innovation through integration between the academic and private sectors and business incubators, and developing graduates’ skills to be productive entrepreneurs.

The program comes within the partnership of the Hassib Sabbagh IT Center of Excellence at the Arab American University to implement the project of the universities that Lead Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The program aims, as pointed out by the Director of the Hassib Sabbagh Center, Dr. Mays Awwad, to contribute to creating new job opportunities, and to enhance the economic empowerment of youth and women by strengthening the support provided for Palestinian startups and entrepreneurs.

The Arab American University submitted a project proposal to the European Erasmus Program at the beginning of this year. The project passed all stages of evaluation successfully and outperformed dozens of proposals submitted by many other Palestinian higher education institutions to finally win the funding. Al-Quds University, Birzeit University, An-Najah National University, Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie, in addition to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education, participate in the project led by the Arab American University.