The Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority “Monsha’at” celebrated the honoring of 50 entrepreneurial projects at King Saud University in Riyadh, as part of the closing ceremony of the University Entrepreneurship Clubs Enablement Program.
The ceremony was attended by the Governor of Monsha’at, Sami bin Ibrahim Al Hussaini; the Acting President of King Saud University, Doctor Abdullah bin Salman Al-Salman; the Vice President of Majmaah University, Professor Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Shehri; and several university faculty members, experts, and specialists in entrepreneurship.
The program aimed to activate and enable university entrepreneurship clubs that help spread the culture of entrepreneurship within the university community, equip their members with the programs they need to develop their capabilities and skills in various fields, and give them the experience that qualifies them to begin their entrepreneurial journey.
The program also helped activate and enable 4 university entrepreneurship clubs and develop male and female students by holding workshops and enriching meetings led by a group of entrepreneurship experts and specialists, creating a competitive atmosphere that helps them progress through entrepreneurial competitions and training camps, and providing training and guidance sessions to follow up on the performance of the participating projects.
Through their participation in the University Entrepreneurship Clubs Enablement Program, male and female students who own startups, along with those interested, benefited from a wide range of educational, awareness, guidance, and development programs delivered by specialists and experts in various fields of entrepreneurship.
In all, 60 varied entrepreneurial events were delivered to more than 9000 male and female student beneficiaries, helping turn more than 200 initial ideas into promising entrepreneurial projects.
Through the program, Monsha’at seeks to strengthen the participation of male and female students and to spread the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in the university community in a sustainable way, supporting the building of emerging entrepreneurial projects and contributing to their growth and expansion.