Ahlia Invention Centre
A place for visionaries and future planners to redefine their business.
About the AIC
Ahlia Invention Centre is an innovation and invention fab for anyone interested in innovation and invention from the university or outside the university.
This Centre believes that the practice of innovation brings out skills within us to compete in a global environment, leading to a more prosperous society and world economy.
The purpose of the Innovation & Invention Centre is to further develop and support the community of inventor and innovative talent at the Ahlia University staff and students, and also for any innovator in Bahrain they are welcome to join the center.
The Centre will further the knowledge, spirit, and passion of innovators while providing resources for educational, social, networking, teaching, and researching events where entrepreneurial and innovative skills can be applied. This center fosters, inspires, and supports the creation of new venture opportunities, whether in an existing firm or the launch of a new firm.
Our Vision
Creating a new culture of invention and innovation in the university that allows for the development of new and existing inventors and innovators, realizing those ideas and enabling Ahlia university students and other innovators from Bahrain of the future to flourish.
Our Mission
The Kingdom of Bahrain competes internationally harnessing invention and innovation, creating original IP leading to a new order of sustainable wealth creation.
Discover New Possibilities
Creating a new culture of invention and innovation in the university that allows for the development of new and existing inventors and innovators, realizing those ideas and enabling Ahlia university students and other innovators from Bahrain of the future to flourish.
Drive innovation
Creativity is born from a need. It is a process, not a product. The best ideas don’t emerge when you’re alone – they might start that way, but they grow and change with input from others. New experiences, themes and inputs are the things that push you to a new level. Through a cooperation with key players from research and industry.
Where future planners and decision makers come together, excite creativity and experience the whole innovation process.
Network with experts
Sometimes you don´t need to know everything or do it on your own – but you have to know whom to ask! When talking about innovation, networking is a must. As a partner of the AIC you are part of an ever-growing community of industry and research partners and have the opportunity of frequent exchange with ‘the real practitioners ‘.
Enhance your innovation skills
In our Ahlia Invention Center we train the innovators inventors from Bahrain.
- You learn how to transfer agile methods into your hardware development.
- Our workshops prepare you for the future.
- Check your own “innovation readiness level“and get answers to the questions you have in mind but don’t know whom to ask.
How to Become a Member
Application Criteria
Please send a brief description of your idea to [email protected]
- the state of the art and what makes your project unique in the field of application
- a brief description of your expectations from the program
Selection Process
Your application will be reviewed by an expert jury and upon their decision you will be notified on the status of your application and provide with the membership full details.
Events
The Events include among other activities:
- Workshops
- Conferences
- Forums
- Panel debates
- Hackathons
We Invent Hackathon (2022)
- 15/03/2022
