Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship holds graduation ceremony for QRNE and Made in Jordan competitions

The event was held in cooperation with Optimiza Academy and the King Abdullah II Fund for Development, and represented by their heads, Mr. Nidal Bitar and Mr. Tariq Awad respectively.

In the ceremony held at the Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Mr. Awad, the Director of the King Abdullah II Fund for Development, delivered a speech in which he highlighted the role of the Fund in assisting innovators in transforming their creative ideas into products and services of high economic value by supporting the Made in Jordan Competition and other national initiatives and programs in universities, research, and scientific institutions.

Mr. Nidal Bitar, the Executive Director of Optimiza Academy, referred to the company's role in the development of the business environment in Jordan and the region through specialized training programs delivered by highly competent trainers, who are accredited globally.

He also pointed that the contribution of Optimiza Academy has been revolving around supporting the companies that emerge out of the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition that need to acquire diverse skills in progressing its success.

Examples of courses that tackle that angle include writing business plans and enhance project management successfully and effectively.

From his side, His Excellency Dr. Adel Tweissi paid tribute to the efforts exerted by the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship in supporting the creation of a knowledge economy and strengthening the inception of high-value intellectual property.

"An essential ingredient to this avenue is to provide the talent in the Kingdom with soft skills that would assist them in delivering and communicating their messages more effectively."

HE commented.

Speaking on behalf of the Queen Rania Center, Mr. Basel Kilany, the Director, noted that this year's training program has grown in size and scope; more than 150 participants received training, seventy of which participated in the Made in Jordan Competition.

The majority of the participants in the Made in Jordan Competition came from Jordanian universities and the Royal Scientific Society, in addition to engineers, programmers and inventors from the community at large.

These participants presented ideas for technological inventions with market value that can be protected and marketed globally.

The training sessions included courses in property rights, product design and development, entrepreneurial skills, teamwork skills, industrial standards, project management, principles of marketing, and many more.

The Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) provides a platform to increase the interest of Jordanian university students and the public in designing a path to achieve their dreams.

The competition strives to advocate entrepreneurial skills as participants coalesce their university or work knowledge with their resources along with their competitive drive to create a business plan that is both practical and innovative.

As a complement to the center's role in supporting inventors who act as the basis of intellectual wealth creation, The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship lunched the Made in Jordan Competition.

The competition is a national one that aims at extracting innovations in Jordan by channeling research in Jordanian universities, especially those who come out of a graduation project or a thesis of graduate studies, towards developing industrial or software prototypes that solve real technological, engineering, or scientific problems in the region. The drive of this initiative would foster business-oriented results and new product development with significant market value.

Noteworthy, the competition for this year is under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Amer Al Hadidi, the Minister of Industry and Trade and sponsored by the King Abdullah II Fund for Development.

It is also vital to note that it is one of a series of national competitions in several Arab countries.

All finalists in participating counties would enter a pan Arab competition under the name of "Made in Arab World".