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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013

INJAZ Qatar hosts Mubadara 2013, the 6th Annual Young Enterprise of the Year competition

INJAZ Qatar hosts Mubadara 2013, the 6th Annual Young Enterprise of the Year competition
As part of its commitment to the human development pillar of the Qatar National Vision 2030, INJAZ Qatar, a non-profit organization and member of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide, held Mubadara, the 6th Annual Young Enterprise of the Year competition awards ceremony, on Thursday 23rd May, 2013 at Katara. Mubadara 2013 is sponsored by ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. (Platinum Sponsor), Katara...

TEDxQatarUniversity event to inspire local youth to achieve

TEDxQatarUniversity event to inspire local youth to achieve
Qatar University will host its first ever TEDxQatarUniversity event on Thursday, 29th November, as it strives to inspire young people to become a success.  TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) was established to bring together extraordinary people to promote the notion, “ideas worth spreading” through a lively and open exchange of ideas. TEDx is a self-organized event where...

QSTP launches a new cycle of the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program

QSTP launches a new cycle of the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) initiated a new series of the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (TIEP). Last week, a group of 29 aspiring entrepreneurs interested in learning how to manage technology-based business attended the introductory week of the program. TIEP is an annual capacity building program run by QSTP to build innovation and entrepreneurial...

Qatari innovator wins Stars of Science title

Qatari innovator wins Stars of Science title
After a thrilling nine weeks, the waiting was over for four young Arab innovators last night as the overall winner of Stars of Science Series 4 was announced in an exciting live finale here. With a combined Jury and Public score of 30.9 percent, Khaled Abu Jassoum from Qatar claimed this year’s title as Stars of Science Series 4 overall winner, walking away with a first prize of...

SILA stages Live Demo of Business Angel Network in Action

SILA stages Live Demo of Business Angel Network in Action
SILA, Qatar’s newly launched business angel network, kicked off with a live demonstration Monday night to a packed audience at the Four Seasons Hotel. Selected entrepreneurs from Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and the USA presented their business ideas live to a group of angel investors from the region, in hopes of gaining funding, mentoring and networking contacts to help...

Exclusive access for educators to 1001 Inventions and Arabick Roots Exhibitions

Exclusive access for educators to 1001 Inventions and Arabick Roots Exhibitions
In a special effort to inspire future generations with a journey into the Golden Age of Muslim civilization, the Museum of Islamic Art is holding exclusive viewings for educators of the 1001 Inventions and the Arabick Roots Exhibitions, before they open to the general public on October 17. With this unique opportunity teachers will not only be the first visitors to the exhibition but...

Stars of Science returns to MBC4

Stars of Science returns to MBC4
The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) have announced that trailblazing science and technology docu-reality TV show ‘Stars of Science’ will return to MBC4 from 13 September 2012 for a fourth season and will be aired across the region. The one-of-a-kind show’s original format was initiated by QF in 2009, with the aim of discovering and nurturing...

Research grants awarded to researchers in Qatar and their Nile University counterparts

Research grants awarded to researchers in Qatar and their Nile University counterparts
Amongst many partnerships that have emerged from Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) to support scientific research, joint collaborations have surfaced between researchers in Qatar and their counterparts across the Arab world, including those from Nile University (NU) who won 5 research grants in July 2011 on behalf of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development...

Stars of Science Series 3 on MBC4: Top 4 winners revealed

Stars of Science Series 3 on MBC4: Top 4 winners revealed
With only one week to go until the live finale, viewers will be sitting on the edge of their seats tonight when the top four winners of pan-Arab docu reality show Stars of Science are revealed. Competing for a place in the final four and their share of the total $600,000 prize money will be five candidates who made it through an exciting round of pitches to impress the judges in last...

TEDxYouth@Doha event hailed “a great success”

TEDxYouth@Doha event hailed “a great success”
Inspiring speakers, attentive listeners, enquiring minds, an engaging audience and boundless enthusiasm – all were on show at Saturday’s TEDxYouth@Doha event at Georgetown University’s Qatar campus. Part of the worldwide celebrations to mark United Nations Universal Children’s Day, Qatar’s first ever youth-focused TEDx event, attracted around 350 mainly high-school students...

RasGas lead sponsorship list for TEDxYouth@Doha event

RasGas lead sponsorship list for TEDxYouth@Doha event
Key sponsors of this weekend’s TEDxYouth@Doha event, taking place at Georgetown University on 19th November include RasGas Company Limited (RasGas), iSpot, Stars of Science TV Program that is currently airing on MBC 4 and Georgetown University itself. The event is expected to attract a capacity crowd of 15- to 18-year-old high school students from all over Qatar, and those attending...

Stars Of Science Series 3 on MBC4: Six candidates remaining

Stars Of Science Series 3 on MBC4: Six candidates remaining
With only two more episodes to go until the live finale, the competition in season three of unique docu-reality TV show Stars of Science is becoming more and more exciting, with ten candidates battling it out in front of the jury for one of five coveted places in the crucial Design episode. Broadcast exclusively on MBC4 on Thursday 17th November at 10pm KSA, episode seven of Stars of...