Doha: As part of its continuous efforts to encourage creativity in various fields, the Cultural Village Foundation - Katara has launched the Katara Award for Engineering Innovation 2020.
Katara is inviting engineers from different parts of the world to participate in the award by presenting their engineering projects in different areas. The award comes in five categories including culture, sports, tourism, environment and medicine.
The award aims to enhance excellence in completed research projects with focus on human health and taking into account beauty and sustainability. It is also required in the joint project to address contemporary and future challenges in keeping with innovation and creativity.
The projects are to be submitted in both Arabic and English along with a comprehensive engineering presentation of the project. Registration for the award is through the Katara website www.katara.net and the deadline for receiving entries is July 31, 2020.
The winner in each of the five categories will receive prize of $10,000.
This award is considered one of the many and varied initiatives of Katara, through which it works to stimulate creative capabilities in various cultural, artistic and scientific fields which comes as part of its strategy to build people, achieve sustainable development and enhance the comprehensive concept of culture as a basis for enriching society with all creative energies and its constant motivation for innovation.
The outcome of this award is expected to benefit the entire society as young energies will be encouraged to innovate and be creative. It would support the creative economy which is the fourth sector of world economy, and is based on intellectual capital, where the award is directed to all engineers inside and outside Qatar. It promotes competition and contributes to producing projects with a very high degree of innovation, quality and excellence.
The Katara Prize for Engineering Innovation 2020 confirms Katara's belief on the importance of the field of engineering in developing comprehensive thinking, creativity and innovation, especially as the award includes five vital areas which are culture, sports, tourism, environment and medicine. It comes within the framework of affirming Katara’s role in disseminating the values of creativity and innovation, and that Katara is a global hub for creativity, and for everything that contributes to the development of societies and the advancement of people. It extends bridges of communication between cultures and peoples through innovation and creativity.
