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Over the last year (2021), Lebanon has been going through an unprecedented economic crisis with some issues being a lack of fuel for cars, lack of electricity, and inflation of the Lebanese pound. Even though all these problems exist in the country AUB is still able to show why it stands as one of the best in the region.
== Promoting Student I&E ==The last couple of years at AUB have shown great strides for I&E by hosting yearly events, competitions, hackathons, and incubators. The President Innovation Challenge is a yearly even event where all AUB member's are invited to apply and present their startup ideas to receive $15,000 and $30,000 cash prizes. The FYP accelerator program is a course that students where students can use their final year project idea's and turn them into successful startups. The last phase of this accelerator has a competition where the participating student's students can earn funding for their projects. The Darwazah startup accelerate competition is another startup incubator where students can enter with ideas and exit with startups. AUB also has ties with Beirut Digital District and have a facility called the Talal and Mahida Zein AUB Innovation Part, that hosts the an incubation program and hackathons for students.
Other than that AUB also has the Entrepreneurship Initiative in the engineering department and the Darwazah Center for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship in the business faculty that constantly work on expanding I&E at AUB through incubators, hackathons, etc.
Finally, the Interdisciplinary Design Practice Program at AUB works on having students and faculty take on projects to innovate and make changes spark change on campus. Moreover, the IDDP introduced a Human-centered design course to introduce students to HCDdesign thinking practices.
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