November 18, 2021
The Arabic version of the WIPO Academy IP4Youth&Teachers service launched on November 16, 2021. The newly launched IP4Youth&Teachers was developed and customized by the Egyptian National Intellectual Property Academy (NIPA) at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), under the guidance of the WIPO Academy. The IP4Youth&Teachers content was adapted into Arabic for the Egyptian national audience and for the benefit of the Arab Region as a whole.
WIPO Director General Daren Tang opened the launch ceremony via a recorded message.
The ceremony featured a panel of officials including His Excellency Tarek Shawki, Egyptian Minister of Education and Technical Education; Mahmoud Sakr, President of ASRT; Mona Yahia, President of Egyptian Patent Office (EGPO) and Administrative Supervisor of NIPA; Hossam El Saghir, Professor of Commercial Law and Intellectual Property at Helwan University and the Academic Supervisor of NIPA; Fatma Samir, Executive Director of NIPA; and Eman Ibrahim, Intellectual Property Trainer at NIPA.
We can create a virtuous cycle where strengthened IP education in schools raises awareness of the IP system and IP rights, which in turn boosts youth entrepreneurship and local IP ownership... The IP4Youth&Teachers service is an important tool for inspiring Egypt’s innovators and creators of the future and a welcome step in ensuring that IP works for everyone, everywhere.
Daren Tang, WIPO Director General
Our children today are able to use, produce and interact with different forms of technology, and they are also consumers and producers of many innovations and creations. Young people need to acquire basic knowledge and skills in the field of IP, which will enable them not only to understand its principles and importance, but also to use IP systems to maximize the economic value and social return of their innovations and creativity by transforming them into products and services that meet the requirements of society and solve its problems in various domains
Tarek Shawki, Egyptian Minister of Education and Technical Education
Our children and youth of today are tomorrow’s scholars, authors, thinkers, businessmen and policymakers. Building their capacity today so that they can understand intellectual property systems and their use, will enable them to maximize the positive returns of their innovations, inventions, research activities and businesses – for their own benefit and for the benefit of their society.
Mahmoud Sakr, President of ASRT
The IP4Youth&Teachers service in Arabic was inaugurated on the WIPO eLearning Center by Minister Tarek Shawki. He emphasized Egypt’s future plans to exploit the digital space with the hopes of equipping school teachers with the skills needed to bring intellectual property (IP) to life for the youth.
IP4Youth&Teachers is a service that was launched by the WIPO Academy in 2018 to provide educational resources on IP for the youth and their teachers. It consists of gamified lessons on copyright, patents, trademarks and the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) for school students (aged six to eighteen), in addition to teaching tools and lesson plans for teachers to use when integrating IP into the curriculum. The customized content of IP4Youth&Teachers features new characters and examples from the region, and is now publically available on the WIPO eLearning Center.
