Essential Coordination Between Economic and Academic Actors to Build an Effective Startup Ecosystem

CONSTANTINE - The President of the National Committee for the Coordination of Innovation and Business Incubators within the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Professor Ahmed Mir, called on Tuesday in Constantine for coordination between economic and academic actors to build an effective startup ecosystem.

Speaking during the graduation ceremony of the 10th cohort of state engineers at the National Polytechnic School, part of Salah Boubnider University (Constantine 3), the official, who also serves as an advisor to the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, specified that the involvement of major economic and industrial groups is "necessary for startups to test their innovative solutions and integrate into the national industrial fabric."

A total of 160 state engineers graduated on Tuesday from the Malek Bennabi National Polytechnic School at the end of the 2025–2026 academic year, the director of the school, Mr. Djamel Hamana, told APS.

This graduating class, the director detailed, consists of 25 new graduates specializing in energy engineering, 23 in electronics, 22 in automation, 21 in environmental engineering, 20 in mechanical manufacturing, 17 in materials engineering, photovoltaics, and solar energy, and 16 in pharmaceutical engineering.

In an address delivered on this occasion, Professor Hamana highlighted the major pillars of training and scientific instruction provided by the school's highly qualified faculty. He then called on the graduates to meet the challenges of modernization with determination and professionalism, to keep pace with technological development, and to update their scientific knowledge to serve the demands of the job market.

This cohort embodies "the forward-looking vision of the higher authorities aimed at training skilled professionals capable of keeping pace with technological and scientific changes and building a knowledge economy," added the director, who stressed the need to consolidate the relationship between scientific and academic research and the economic sector in order to transform knowledge into added value and stimulate innovation.

The Malek Bennabi National Polytechnic School, which opened in 2014 under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, has seen the graduation of 10 cohorts totaling 940 graduates between 2017 and 2026.