Welcome to Ahlia Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE). Whether you are student, freelancer, investor, entrepreneur or considering to be an entrepreneur, we welcome you to our entrepreneurship center.
Ahlia Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) was established in February 2017, as an initiative to support and promote entrepreneurship at Ahlia University (AU) and the Bahraini community at large. ACE is intended to play a strategic role in promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in Bahrain and create a new breed of youth and entrepreneurs who aspire to have a positive and lasting impact on their society. Accordingly, ACE aims to support the creation of new companies that add substantial job, and bring extra incomes and revenues to the Bahraini economy. To achieve this goal, the Center provides programs and activities which enhance the entrepreneurial learning at Ahlia University and expand the students’ knowledge of business creation and opportunity recognition.
You are always welcome to join us and benefit from our activities and events at the Centre. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information about our services.
VISION
Ahlia Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) aspires to become the leading interdisciplinary entrepreneurship center in Bahrain and an outstanding incubator for local, regional and international entrepreneurs.
MISSION
Our mission is to equip students and entrepreneurs with high level of entrepreneurial knowledge, critical skills and tools necessary to identify new business opportunities and transform them into successful start-ups and to provide relevant and focused support to start and grow viable new businesses.
The main goals of Ahlia Center for Entrepreneurship are the following:
- To raise awareness and knowledge about the importance of entrepreneurship for the growth of economy, by fostering entrepreneurship at the university and community at large.
- Moodle To spread the entrepreneurial culture at the university by developing the students’ skills, providing experiential learning opportunities, conducting meaningful entrepreneurial research, and connecting students with mentors and resources that enable them to successfully start up a new business and prosper.
- To educate, coach and encourage young entrepreneurs and freelancers to pursue business opportunities and succeed in transforming them into viable start-ups.
- To provide potential entrepreneurs with the necessary tools and experiences to creatively pursue new innovative opportunities in the start-up and social and corporate venture arenas.
- To link the students’academic knowledge with the business world through training, consultation, incubation and research.
- To make of the Center for Entrepreneurship a highly visible hub which would hold all entrepreneurship activities related to Ahlia University.
- To deliver a series of credit-based workshops which would teach students how to explore the entrepreneurial career path and open up new career opportunities after their graduation.
Activities
Ahlia Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) attempts to conduct activities in order to widen the students’knowledge of entrepreneurship, inspire them to think and act entrepreneurially, educate them through new learning styles, in addition to connecting embryonic entrepreneurs with the successful fellows in this fieldwork.
Workshops
The aim of the workshops held at the center is to spread the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation among participants. Indeed, these workshops provide good opportunities for the trainees to explore their inner entrepreneurs while engaged in entrepreneurial discussions and activities.
Training
Training sessions will be conducted by the center trainers’ applying the knowledge gained from the Entrepreneurship and Leadership CIPE (Center of International Private Enterprises, UAS) Workshop’s using the CIPE-WDI curricula. http://wdi.umich.edu/entrepreneurship-development-center/people/
Best Business Idea Competitions
As part of ACE activities, several competitions of the best business idea have been organized. Groups of students compete along the semester to get the prize of the best business idea. The competition comprises 3 phases:
- 1st round: idea and opportunity recognition: pitching for the business idea.
- 2nd round: the selection of the 3 best ideas
- 3rd round: the selection of the best business plan.
Outside Visits
As part of the center’s activities, groups of students visit incubator centers and accelerators. These visits give the students a good overview about the services offered by the incubators and accelerators to novice entrepreneurs.
Connect With Us
Ahlia University
- +973 17 29 8999
- info@ahlia.edu.bh
- Bld 41, Rd 18, Al-Hoora 310 Gosi Complex, Exhibition Road
- Sunday to Thursday - 8 AM to 5 PM
