‘Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Forum’ Participates in Kanz Club 2021 Closing Ceremony
18-Jan-2022
AMMAN – Talal
Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Forum (TAG-KF), a member of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global
(TAG.Global), participated in the closing ceremony of Kanz Club 2021 activities
which was digitally held in conjunction with the Global Entrepreneurship Week,
jointly organized by the ArabNoor Group and the Queen Rania Center for
Entrepreneurship under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of
Youth Dr. Hussein Al Jbour.
The purpose of the event
was to empower the youth in all Jordan’s governorates through innovative
entrepreneurship programs to transform their ideas into real projects that
serve sustainable development goals, and to help solving community problems,
mainly unemployment.
During the four-day
event, a number of training courses in the fields of Entrepreneurship,
Companies Law, Digital Marketing and Financial Management were digitally
presented for the participants by experts and specialists.
The closing ceremony was
inaugurated by Mr. Fadi Daoud, executive director of TAG-KF, who affirmed the
importance of the Global Entrepreneurship Week which is considered a great
opportunity for all Jordanian entrepreneurs to demonstrate their creativity and
innovations.
HE Dr. Hussein Al Jbour
expressed the Ministry’s keenness and commitment to supporting the youth and
entrepreneurs through various programs conducted by the Ministry, announcing
the establishment of three-new business incubators in cooperation with UNICEF
and the Jordan River Foundation to empower the underprivileged youth.
During the session Acting
Director of Initiatives& Knowledge Stations at the Ministry of Digital
Economy & Entrepreneurship, Ms. Liza Habashneh, pointed out that the
general policy for entrepreneurship and the national strategic plan for the
years 2021-2025 aims to create a friendly and stimulating environment for
entrepreneurship in the Kingdom to overcome obstacles and to maximize the
economic potential of the Jordanian entrepreneurship system and its growth.
For his part, Director of
Media and Public Relations at the Crown Prince Foundation, Mr. Bashar Husban,
stated that the Foundation seeks to implement HRH the Crown Prince initiatives,
in accordance with specific work areas including Work Readiness, Leadership and
Citizenship which aim at sharpening the youth skills, motivating them to
innovate by promoting concepts of sustainable community service.
From the ArabNoor Group
Advisory Board, Eng. Hani Khlaifat praised the achievements and the leading
role of the youth in various sectors at the national level, referring to
the role the ArabNoor played in launching several initiatives, most notably,
‘Irbid Pact to Support Entrepreneurship’ which came in line with the Royal
vision and support to the entrepreneurship sector in Jordan.
Meanwhile, Director of
Community Projects at ArabNoor Group, Mr. Majdi Suleiman presented a brief
summary on the Kanz Club achievements, announcing winners of the
entrepreneurship contest selected by the Committee; in which 5 projects out of
1700 were selected from different governorates throughout the Kingdom in the
fields of health, tourism, agriculture and education.
It is worth mentioning
that ‘Sofe’ project has received first place which designs and implements
agricultural systems tailored to available areas in order to increase green
spaces and achieve domestic self-sufficiency. The second place went to
“Makaseb” project – an electronic platform connected to a wireless device
installed near wastewater tanks that enables unserved individuals and
organizations by sewage a system to manage wastewater safely, while the third
place was for the ‘Mushroom House’ project which advocates the use of natural
materials in agriculture, packaging, and other related processes, seeking to
grow oyster mushroom, and to produce organic fertilizers from agricultural
waste of mushrooms in Ajlun region.
The fourth place was
received by ‘Hawas’ movie dubbing project, that enables visually impaired
people to imagine the movie scenes more accurately while watching films in
Arabic and English. ‘Taibat’ project came in the fifth place – the project uses
two techniques; the first aims to cover a farm with a special agricultural
fence, and the second uses Aquaponics technology in agriculture which
eliminates the use of chemical pesticides.
To watch the recording of the closing
ceremony,
please click here.