PPU Business Incubator
Palestine Polytechnic University is leading the effort to create the first university business incubator in Palestine since 2007. to foster entrepreneurship, and enhance learning, internships, and job creation for 7000 potential entrepreneurs and serve start-up businesses in a facility of approximately 700 square meters.
PPU Business Incubator facility is operated by the ‘Centre of Excellence and Continuing Education’, that was launched at the beginning of the year 2007 as a technology based physical incubator facility, now moved to be a mixed use incubator meaning that offers business services to Palestinian entrepreneurs who have mature concepts for unique and innovative projects in various fields . Aiming to develop Palestinian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), as well as tackle growth model sectors in order to generate new jobs, attract foreign investment and improve the economic situation in Palestine. It offers startups: business mentoring, seed funding, office space, infrastructure and internet and is operated by a dedicated manager. Dozens of empowerment programs and thousands of training hours, mentoring and coaching have been carried out through a network of certified trainers and private sector. as well as incubation and acceleration programs and access to capitalization and financing to launch marketable businesses. Where more than 180 startups obtained pre-incubation services as well as 88 startups that were officially launched in the market, from various economic sectors with a success rate exceeding 60% of total, which provided more than 160 jobs, 68% Of them female employees. PPU Business Incubators have carried out many initiatives that support the local community in partnership with local universities, local and international non-profit organizations.
cewas Middle East
cewas is a Swiss non-profit organisation offering business incubation services for startups in the water, sanitation and resource management by building and strengthening capacities of innovations and entrepreneurs that aim to solve the world’s most pressing water, sanitation and resource challenges.
In the Middle East, cewas has been established to foster innovation and sustainability of environmental sectors through the development and implementation of entrepreneurial approaches.
Since 2016, cewas Middle East has been offering long-term entrepreneurship support programmes, including technical & business-related training, coaching and mentoring, networking support and - on a smaller scale – financial assistance to more than 80 start-ups.
cewas Middle East currently operates in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq. All regional and country programmes are firmly embedded within the local ecosystems to ensure coherence with national development goals and a strong focus on creating high-potential bottom-up solutions to social and ecological challenges that truly affect people’s life and environmental sustainability.
cewas’ start-ups focus on creating impact, while seeking financial viability, which is what is direly needed to ensure everyone’s access to natural resources, safe and efficient services as well as protection of natural ecosystems. In order to succeed in their mission and become sustainable entities at the same time, the start-ups require an innovative blend of support mechanisms that cewas Middle East attempts to consolidate with its business, finance and technical partners in the region.
