The British Council is pleased to announce the finalists for a prestigious award celebrating the outstanding achievements of the UK’s international alumni. They are selected by our panel of judges as best representatives for the impact of UK higher education in their chosen career path and the impact they have made for the development of Egypt.
We are proud of them!
Queen Margaret University
Reem became the Executive Manager of Egypt’s largest international multi-disciplinary arts festival, at the age of 22. Within one year of completing her MA in Arts and Festivals Management, she started a social initiative that aimed to make the arts accessible to all, regardless of one's socio-economic status, disability, or ethnicity, while working on international-scale projects overcoming international mobility challenges facing Arab artists.
An initiative that builds the capacities of young people in soft skills, citizenship, management skills, and planning. The volunteers established a student club to pilot this model in Alexandria and AlKosair, Red Sea governorate as remote communities with few opportunities. The initiative recovers all its costs; the volunteers succeeded in creating partnerships with training institutions that provide their services at a discounted rate. They also succeeded in getting support from universities.
Ramy, originally from Qatar, moved to Egypt after finishing high school. He studied electric power and automatic control at Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering. He was a fourth year student when he won the national competition in 2012. Ramy always had passion for physics, and the fact that it is at the core of every useful thing in our lives, including electricity, inspired him to be an electric engineer. Ramy wants to show people a new way to look at science.
As sharing different experiences between teachers locally and internationally can have a great impact on the learning process, Elvin stresses on the fact that having an effective CoP will lead to its success. He realises that his CoP allowed him to reach out to digital experts from around the world, and that this will enable him to achieve more in his community.
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Durham University
Entrepreneurial Award
Despite officially launching his new business 5 days before the Egyptian revolution in 2011 and with all the economic and political turmoil, Mohamed was able to lead his company “Adrenalin” to be the number 1 paintball venue in the Middle East in 3 years. Then he developed Adrenalin to be one of the top 3 team building companies in Egypt, where it delivers corporate objectives and employee learning through untraditional customized games.
This initiative aims to promote acceptance and dialogue among young people, breaking down barriers between polarised communities in Egyptian society. Volunteers are doing this through training workshops, competitions, and games. The initiative is implemented mainly in 15th of May City, which is in the far south of Cairo and is considered as a vulnerable area. These training activities are covering their own actual costs. (Cairo, Alexandria, and Minya)
Sami is an Egyptian cultural leader with a bachelor’s in fine arts and a master’s in cultural management from Sophia University Institute, Italy.He has managed impactful arts programs,including as programme manager at the Jesuit Cultural Centre in Alexandria. A 2019 IVLP participant on “Social Change through the Arts” he contributed to the “2030 Mediterranean Appeal.”Honoured as a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Literature (2022), Sami is now Arts Project Manager at the British Council Egypt
Coventry University
Usama founded Yadaweya, a social enterprise for heritage and crafts, that focuses on discovering Egyptian craftsmen and providing local women with access to local and international markets with fair trade policies.
Usama observes that Coventry University provided him with skills and experiences in project management, direct support from supervisors for on-the-job training and involvement in environmental projects in the UK, that have supported his career.
