GEMS Arab Innovation Centre for Education Announced Second Edition of the AICE Accelerator Programme

GEMS Education announced the second version of its Arab Innovation Centre for Education (AICE) Accelerator Program which provides students a platform that helps build an ecosystem to promote, foster and practise research, innovation and entrepreneurship. The initiative was introduced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai in 2016.

The AICE Accelerator Programme supplied choose student-led start-ups with mentorship, training, a grant fund and an opportunity to pitch and network with regional business leaders and investors.

The programme culminated in a Demonstration Day where each team got 10 minutes to present their prototype to a respected panel of courts that includes the region's leading investors, financial backing firms and entrepreneurs. Each team is paired with a mentor, that are achieved individuals from different sectors and the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem.

The demo Day occurred on April 25 in the distinguished Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA) facility in Emirates Towers, which is an effort by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to draw the future forward much faster.

Michael Gernon, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Innovation, Research and Development, GEMS Education, stated: "The AICE Accelerator Programme is a terrific chance and setting for GEMS students to be in. The programme will offer our students with a unique platform, providing them the best mix of crucial reasoning, industrial knowledge and entrepreneurial interest."

The teams previously this year participated in a two-day bootcamp held at the Blended Knowing Plaza in GEMS Wellington Silicon Sanctuary, where they participated in workshops on item development and growth, design thinking, leadership, branding, business planning and more, led by organisations such as Facebook, DTEC, TeachMeNow and Marya Leadership.

12 groups were shortlisted right into the AICE Accelerator Programme from over 70 applications. Furthermore, finalists from the Global Innovation Difficulty, run in partnership with California-based Singularity University - where pupils from around the globe have created solutions to the world's most pushing problems leveraging rapid innovations such as 3D printing and robotics, will certainly were also be inducted at into the AICE Accelerator Program.

This year, the AICE Accelerator Program remains in partnership with Generation Disrupt and TeachMeNow. TeachMeNow is an on-line tutoring platform that has actually supplied USD 50 credit per participating group and will be providing 10 free hours on its platform to the winner. Generation Disrupt runs fun innovation programs for youngsters and teenagers focused on making daily objects much better making use of innovation and design thinking and had inducted numerous of the trainees into its training course.

The finalists of the Global Innovation Challenge were shortlisted from over 160 tasks being showcased at the GIC Exposition (formerly called Manufacturer Day) in February this year.

The awards ceremony will certainly occur on May 8, 2017, throughout which the AICE winning group will be introduced and given a cash prize of AED 10,000 and Twelve Month of constant support from GEMS Education and its partners to develop their product further.