“Entrepreneurship Breakthrough, Exhibition and Forum 2019”

The Royal University for Women, College of Business and Financial Sciences (CBFS) organized a collaborative event fostering entrepreneurship and employability. The “Entrepreneurship Breakthrough, Exhibition and Forum 2019” held on April 10, 2019 at the university campus, Riffa, Kingdom of Bahrain is an annual event of CBFS showcasing the essence of academic responsibility on women empowerment in partnership with the stakeholders.

The tagline, Inspiring Entrepreneurs, Empowering Women expresses CBFS RUW’s advocacy highlighting women entrepreneurs’ creativity and leadership skills. Shaping the minds of the students to become empowered individuals, students are tasked to spearhead the activity as practical training. Every task creates learning experience to serve as the path to become successful entrepreneurs and high performing employees.

In consonance to the objectives of this exhibition and forum, this event created opportunity to promote awareness of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem as a support system for startup and home-based businesses. In collaboration with the stakeholders and entities namely, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Tourism; Bahrain Chamber of Commerce & Industry and UNIDO-AICEI Bahrain. As their paramount responsibility, they will deliver the information and support for startup entrepreneurs.
It is evident that proper guidance and a balance of support and independence from academia,
industry experts, NGOs and GOs will help the startup business, grow and be sustainable.

This initiative of the CBFS Entrepreneurship course is geared towards developing a higher level of entrepreneurship innovation and creating a breakthrough. It will provide Student-to- Entrepreneurs (S2E) networking and interactive experience. This event will likewise provide opportunity for the students to conduct interviews with the entrepreneurs on the challenging but rewarding experience in starting a business. This interaction creates shared knowledge and inspiration throughout the entrepreneurial journey. Eventually, the outcome of this events’ endeavors could be the basis to propose a Business Pre-incubation Center which will be started as a future project in the university campus.

Objectives:

• To heighten the entrepreneurship and employability skills of the students.
• To establish a strong collaborative relationship with the stakeholders towards entrepreneurship and employability.
• To initiate a proposal on Business Pre-Incubation Center within the university for sustaining the students’ final project and business plan and providing workshops for business startups in the alumnae and the business community.

Target audience:
Business startups, Entrepreneurs, Students, Alumnae and the Community.