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One of the nation’s leading public polytechnic universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) prepares students to be leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. The university’s multidisciplinary curriculum and computing-intensive approach to education provide the technological proficiency, business know-how, and leadership skills that future CEOs and entrepreneurs will need to succeed. With an enrollment of over 11,400 undergraduate and graduate students, NJIT offers small-campus intimacy with the resources of a major public research university.

TATWEER MISR WITH GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK BREAKE GROUND FOR THE FIRST GEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION HUB IN MENA REGION AT BLOOMFIELDS' UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Tatweer Misr signed an MOU with Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) to develop an entrepreneurship and innovation hub at Bloomfields in Mostakbal City, Tatweer Misr’s latest development in Cairo. GEN is a platform of programs and initiatives that help align a varied collection of players, programs, and information to better support entrepreneurship. Located on the 90-acre University campus, the entrepreneurship and innovation hub, expected to be operational by 2021, will host several technology labs, “state-of-the-art” work stations, co-working spaces, think tanks, gyms, lounges, boardrooms, training rooms, and an atrium which will be used for networking and events. It will be home to many partners, with offerings such as, but not limited to, Executive Education Programs, Training Programs, and Lecture Series

Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), operates a platform of projects and programs in 170 countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business. By fostering deeper cross border collaboration and initiatives between entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and entrepreneurial support organizations, GEN works to fuel healthier start and scale ecosystems that create more jobs, educate individuals, accelerate innovation and strengthen economic growth. GEN’s extensive footprint of national operations and global verticals in policy, research and programs ensures members have uncommon access to the most relevant knowledge, networks, communities and programs relative to size of economy, maturity of ecosystem, language, culture, geography and more. GEN helps celebrate, understand, support and connect entrepreneurs and those who champion them. In 2018, Tatweer Misr and GEN Egypt signed an MoU, with the objective that both parties engage in an effort to promote the flourishing of an innovative society through entrepreneurship, by the joint design and organizing of programs and events, and sharing of operational space.

Tatweer Misr is proud to have renewed its partnership for 2018-2019 with the International Council For Small Business (ICSB) to promote the growth and development of small businesses world-wide. The renewal came as a strategic move, putting emphasis on the importance of creating a world class university in Egypt, with Entrepreneurship and SME development as its main ethos. Consequently, ICSB members will become more involved in Tatweer Misr ’s Small Business advocacy efforts Both entities play a crucial role in ensuring small businesses have access to knowledge and resources that allow them to grow into successful case studies. In 2016, Tatweer Misr supported the ICSB World Conference held at the United Nations, and in 2017, the Company became an ICSB MSME Day Founding Partner.