Scholarships
To nurture talent and channelize it to national development, Irteqa offers scholarship to bright and needy students at the school as well as university level. The students are selected , through rigorous process of screening, by the scholarship committee. The scholarship covers the fees and hostel charges. The cost for a school level scholarship is Rs 120,000/= per year and university students is 250,000/= per year. The disbursement of the scholarship is made on six monthly basis and the student’s progress is shared with the sponsoring person/organization.
Critical Industry Skills Development
Pakistani industry faces a serious shortage of skills required by the industry and the graduates available from the universities as well as vocational schools and the quality as well as standard is continuously deteriorating. This gap is further compounded by the attitude and behaviors induced through cultural social norms of the society.
Realizing the need for critical industry skills especially in high-end technology domain, Irteqa has established Asian Institute of Industrial Air (AIIA). AIIA has started its operations successfully and many industry trainings has been conducted with overwhelming response. IRTEQA would also like to invite seasoned professionals to share their technical knowledge and expertise through this platform.
University Industry Partnership Development
Meaningful university-industry partnerships play an important role in development of new products and processes, empower young graduates with skills and build network for professional Development.
Irteqa supports the partnerships beyond traditional rhetoric of discussions and talks to living examples Center of Excellence in Compressed Air (CECA) at National Textile University (NTU) Faisalabad.
Irteqa partnered with renowned European manufacturers of compressed air technology equipment from Germany (Gardner Denver), France (Parker Transair) and (VP Instruments) Netherlands, to establish a state of the art, industry standard, fully functional, Centre of Excellence at National Textile University, Faisalabad.
Complete curriculum to be taught as one semester course at Undergraduate level and short duration courses for industry professionals have also been developed.
Beside skills development, CECA at NTU Faisalabad will also spearhead research in real life problems faced by the industry as well as explore future developments.
Irteqa plan to establish four CECA
Technology Cluster Development
Technology Clusters play an important role in national development. Unfortunately, technology foresight and scientific research input have been seriously missing in the future development of these clusters. These clusters can hugely benefit by developing stakeholder eco-system of academia, research institutions, and the industry as well as business development support organizations.
Irteqa plans to bring stakeholders and strategists together to help various clusters gain their full potential as players in the global economy.
Irteqa will organize stakeholder meeting to identify value threads, value chain interventions for products which are high value-added and acceptable to global markets.
Irteqa inputs can lead to policy advocacy, new product development and help the government to identify areas of support for the particular cluster.
Some clusters develop naturally to the eco-system existing in the region while others are initiated by the government development strategy.
Irteqa works with Trade Associations and Business Support Organisations for crafting foresights and strategy maps to grow clusters.
Pakistan is blessed with naturally development clusters in the following regions, which have need for technology foresight assistance.
- High Tech Cluster– Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi (Pakistan Aerospace Council)
- Surgical Instruments
- Sports Goods
- Camping Equipment
- Packaging Machinery
- Cutlery in Wazirabad
- Household Goods
- Sewing Machines
- Glass and Bangles & Glass Processing
- Fruit & Vegetable
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Mentoring & Supporting Startups
The startup phenomenon is new but has very powerfully demonstrated that technology and innovation-led startup can play a revolutionary role in the national economy. Irteqa team has been involved in nurturing the startup ecosystem since 2010 and has actively played a role in mentoring and guiding the startup right from idea to real business. Now the startup culture is much more matured and some of the startups have demonstrated successful business ventures. Irteqa has a pool of mentors who are well connected to the manufacturing, markets and financial circles within Pakistan and globally. Such mentors can open doors for promising startups.
Irteqa will continue to support mentoring and guidance and seek support from avid volunteers interested in contributing their time, energy and financial resources in supporting the startup culture and help open doors for young entrepreneurs!
Irteqa also organizes National/Regional innovation competition to stir ideas and further develop for possible business opportunities.
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Mentoring & Coaching For Export Growth
Growth in export markets creates employment, utilization of indigenous resources leading greater economic growth of a nation.
Irteqa has pool of experts who specialize in export coaching for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for entering into global business value chain. Following are the programs:
- Export Coaching to make SME ready for export market
- Technical support in process value chain development
- Developing market information of potential customers
- Influence Policy makers
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