University Entrepreneurial Camps

About the Initiative

A series of virtual camps that rely on interactive and applied education. The initiative targets university students with ideas and ongoing projects from university students, providing the opportunities for participants to develop and transfer their ideas and projects into ready-made minimum viable products for the initial launch in the market. There are 5 different entrepreneurial camps that take place over 8 days.

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Objectives

Spurring awareness about entrepreneurship in universities.

Developing and transferring university projects into minimum viable products (MVPs).

Transforming university staff projects into start-ups.

Nurturing talents in universities, introducing them to the entrepreneurial community, and fostering a mindset of positive competitiveness.

Building systematic entrepreneurial mindset by highlighting venture building concepts, such as design thinking.

Target Groups

University students

University staff

Access Conditions

The applicant must be a university student or university staff.

Fill out the registration form and provide correct personal information.

Propose an initial idea and provide project details (explanation of the idea, its goal and the problem that it solves, the target group, the required support) in a video or audio if possible.

Adhere to the initiative schedule.

Access Steps

Access the registration form.

Fill out the information required in the registration form.

If the application is accepted, an email will be sent explaining the details of the camp in which the applicant was accepted to confirm attendance.

In the event that the application is not accepted, a notification will be sent by email.

Initiative Stages

Idea or minimum viable product development

Startup launch

Startup development

FAQs

Applicants can apply as a "team." A contact person from the team must be appointed, and all information related to team members must be provided in the application form.

Minimum Viable Product development camp:
A10-day intense evening camp, enabling participants to transform their ideas into minimum viable products.
Entrepreneurial Challenges Camp:
An 8-week integrated camp, which contributes to building an entrepreneurial community in Saudi universities by offering workshops, training courses, meetings with entrepreneurs and investors, and entrepreneurial challenges in several fields.

Upon completion of the Camp, participants’ minimum viable products will have been completed. Accordingly, participants will be allowed to present their minimum viable products to a jury consisting of individual investors and venture funds to enhance their access to project financing.

After the completion of the program, participants will be able to develop an advanced minimum viable product, and to engage in a competition with the program participants across the Kingdom. Following that, the best projects in each semester will be presented to a jury in order to give participants the opportunity to obtain investment, a seat in an incubator, or a scholarship and financial prize.

Accelerator camp and manufacturing labs:
Participants join accelerator camps for a period of 3 to 9 months, learning to transfer minimum viable products into existing companies.
Funding Camp:
Providing financing opportunities for participants by linking them to financing programs and providing meetings with investors.