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Innovation Ideathons and Hackathons

These events allow participants to engage in intensive, time-bound challenges to brainstorm and develop innovative solutions, promoting creativity and rapid problem-solving.

Innovation Sprints

The Innovation Sprint is a challenge for entrepreneurs organized by the AUC Innovation Hub, powered by OXFAM and DAPP and in partnership with Wuzzuf, Egypt's biggest online recruitment job site, and Klickit, a payment management and digital collections platform.

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Wuzzuf Challenge

The Wuzzuf Challenge “How might we grow Wuzzuf value proposition from an "employment portal" to a "career destination" by adding a "learning" component?” Teams crafted diverse solutions to covering the gap between the employee and the employer by crafting innovation guides for the employee throughout their growth journey. Solutions ranged from gamifying the educational process, to a modern and interactive screening process. 

Ideas come easily, ideas are not important. What is important is the beautiful skill of listening. The ability to apply it in a personal and professional context changes everything. I really appreciate that you could see something and build on it. It's very tempting to come up with something completely new, but glory doesn't go to everything shiny, glory goes to being grounded.

Suzan Salem
Head of Partnerships and Business Development, Wuzzuf
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Klickit Challenge

The Klickit Challenge “With a current customer base of over 25 million students in public and private schools, what are the value-added services that can be availed on the Klickit platform to drive further growth?” The teams identified very different opportunities and pain points as starting points to extend Klickit’s offerings. They then designed user-centered solutions for them that ranged from a payment card for students, to platform of services for schools and even a loyalty schema for parents.

The final presentations and ideas were very insighful. It was an eye-opening experience; how the teams perceived the problems we're facing and tackled them in our business model using our own words, without us realizing that they already exist. It was a great experience and hopefully, we come back in the future with another challenge.

Hashim Ibrahim
Partnerships Director, Klickit