Centers and Labs

The AUC V-Lab is Egypt’s first university-based startup accelerator program and a leading accelerator in Africa and the MENA region. Empowering promising startups since 2013, the AUC V-Lab supports innovation-driven and passionate entrepreneurs looking to turn their solutions and technologies into viable businesses.

A2K4D is a regional multidisciplinary research hub looking at crosscutting emerging issues as they relate to the intersection of knowledge, openness, digital economies and technologies, data and development.

CEI promotes the entrepreneurial mindset by focusing on training, awareness-raising, research and policy advocacy while celebrating individual success stories to enhance the positive impact of entrepreneurship on the national and regional economy.

KCC offers enriching educational services for students by promoting a participant-centered learning experience through the development of world-class case studies and publications, knowledge dissemination and teaching enhancement.

One of the leading providers of knowledge and resources to strengthen philanthropic and civic practice in the Arab region, the Gerhart Center promotes social change in the Arab region through building a culture of effective giving, corporate social responsibility and civic responsibility.  The center strives to build capacity for leadership among Arab youth to become more civically engaged and to impact society through social entrepreneurship, mentorship and creativity.

The center offers a state-of-the-art instructional facility that aims to integrate hands-on financial services practice with classroom financial concepts, such as securities trading, risk management and asset allocation. This first-of-its-kind center in the region to offer students, researchers and professionals access to real-time financial data, professional research tools and leading analytical software, replicating a real-life trading room environment.

The Behavioral and Economic Decision Making Laboratory (BEDMLab) is a center for studying and improving our understanding of human decision-making in economics and other disciplines through the development and application of economic experiments and behavioral economics.

Hosted at the School of Business, J-PAL MENA represents a collaboration between the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), AUC, MIT and Community Jameel. Producing pioneering research aimed at reducing poverty, the lab seeks to improve lives through evidence-informed policymaking.

Initiated by the School of Business in 2017, the observatory aims to improve the gender balance of corporate boards in Egypt and the MENA region by sensitizing male board members to gender issues, qualifying women from different sectors to be appointed to corporate boards and advocating for policy and legislative changes that institutionalize gender diversity on corporate boards.