Dr.Hisham Abdel Salam, the President National Egyptian E-Learning University, participated in the activities of the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, organized by the International Entrepreneurship Network. (GEN Egypt).
Dr. Hisham Abdel Salam, the president of The National Egyptian E-Learning University, explained that the activities of Entrepreneurship Week are a center for the care of innovators and creators, and a great opportunity for those wishing to enter the world of entrepreneurship to learn all the modern concepts related to this field. By participating in workshops and events that include a group of prominent entrepreneurs, economic experts and investors from around the world, the events also aimed to attract the attention of leaders and government officials; Urging them to provide the necessary support to budding entrepreneurs and startups in their countries.
He added that The National Egyptian E-Learning University has participated in these activities as the leading and unique university that offers a different educational model in Egypt that is characterized by flexibility, and the blended education system is applied, which many universities around the world are trying to implement now, after the turbulent educational atmosphere in which most countries live. Due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
In more than 200 countries. Abd al-Salam explained that the virus forced countries to implement non-traditional educational systems, foremost of which is distance education, which the university has applied since its inception, so the university contributed to enriching dialogue within the conference sessions to present its pioneering experience, and also offered to contribute to providing all the experiences that the electronic university possesses for the rest Universities, to get out of the Corona crisis, to provide educational systems that are in line with modern technology and digital transformation to counter the effects of the new Corona virus on the educational process inside universities.
He pointed out that the university has established, in partnership with the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, a club for entrepreneurship to be a center for spreading the idea of entrepreneurship and embracing entrepreneurs from university students, and to help them develop their innovative and creative skills and link them to investors and developments in the labor market, and that is our belief from the university in the role of entrepreneurship in pushing The growth wheel of the Egyptian economy, reducing the problems of unemployment and poverty, diversifying the sources of national income, and finding some radical solutions to most of the economic problems that Egypt suffers from.
Abdel Salam noted that the entrepreneurship sector in universities would not have achieved the successes that we are currently witnessing without the continuous support provided by the political leadership and the Egyptian government, especially the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, who attaches utmost importance to entrepreneurship in higher education institutions and prominence.