Information Technology Academia Collaboration (ITAC)

ITIDA’s Information Technology Academic Collaboration (ITAC) aims to promote Industry/Universities collaboration through linking academic research with industry and market needs. These collaborative research programs will bring value to IT companies, universities, researchers and the technology community.

ITAC programs have been designed to link industry research with market needs. This is coupled with opportunities within IT companies for undergraduate, graduate, master students and Ph.D. students, preparing them for the global IT marketplace.

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Available Programs

There are six main programs available as part of the ITAC initiative. These include:

Research and Development 

• Product Development Projects (PDP): which start with a prototype and end with a final product. The budget ceiling is EGP 3,000,000. The presence of an ICT industrial partner is required.
  
  
• Advanced Research Projects (ARP): which start with a proof-of-concept and end with a prototype. The budget ceiling is EGP 1,000,000. The presence of an ICT industrial partner is required.
  
  
• ITIDA Fellowships (IF): which start with an idea and end in a proof-of-concept. The budget ceiling is EGP 130,000.
  

Please use the below forms in order to benifit from the above three programs:

• Financial and Procurement Guidelines.
• ITAC unit Travel Guidelines.
• Budget template.
• Budget Change Request Form.
• Project Closing Financial Report.

To learn more about the guidelines and to submit to any of the above three programs, please go to the ITAC Submission webpage

• Patent Filing Program (PFP): aims to encourage, protect and motivate creativity and innovation. ITIDA will support filing a number of patents per year with a maximum of 15 thousand dollars per patent. Refer to the PFP guideline before submitting to itac@itida.gov.eg.
  

Undergraduate

• Student Graduation Projects - IT companies provide proposed subjects for graduation projects, based on market needs. Selected student graduation projects are funded through ITAC with a maximum of 10,000 pounds per project.
  Graduation Project Template - How to Fill the proposal - Financial Guidelines
  
  
• Students Summer Training – offers the students practical on job training during the summer vacation in the largest ICT companies working in Egypt. The objective of this program is to help the students to get prepared for their future professional life as well enhancing their educational capabilities. Each student is paid 500 pounds salary per month.
  
  For applying in ITAC Summer Training 2010:
  Please send your CV to: taly@itida.gov.eg and itac@itida.gov.eg

ITAC Steering Committee

Led by ITIDA CEO Dr. Hazem Adelazim, the Steering Committee comprises of individuals from academia and the ICT industry.

ITAC Steering Committee is responsible of:

1. Strengthening the cooperation between Universities, research centers, and IT companies.

2. Laying out the mechanism for linking scientific research in universities as well as students' graduation projects to the actual needs of the IT companies.

3. Setting the rules and criteria for choosing, evaluating, and financing ITAC programs.

4. Organizing seminars for companies and universities to discuss topics of mutual interest.

5. Setting the mechanism and criteria for periodic evaluation and taking correct actions.

6. Encouraging companies to host summer training for university students' inline with a defined strategy that ensures the technical viability and benefit for students.