AUESRC strives to promote scientific research among undergraduate and graduate students, aiming at instilling life-long learning, reinforcing students’ future employability skills, and fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and attitudes pertinent to education, research, and innovation.

This two-day contest is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in universities in the UAE and GCC who would like to present and share their research outcomes with their peers from the region. All students who have completed a significant scholarly or creative project are encouraged to register to present their work. Examples of eligible projects include major classroom scholarly research projects, theses and dissertations, capstone projects, directed research, action research, literary analysis that reveals new connections and insights, creative works in art and design, and fellowship research.