The Rally Societies is a concept to create an entrepreneurship society in each university. This is society is a chance for students to participate in entrepreneurship activities, all led and organized by students, to serve them and all other students within their university in different faculties and in neighboring universities that do not yet have a Rally society of their own.
Aside from changing the mindset of youth all around the nation in hope for a future where citizens understand and promote entrepreneurship and the importance of it even for non-business graduates. Rally Society also has a vision to create an ecosystem of founders, entrepreneurs and investors in each university and connect them to one another. Moreover, another main pillar of the Rally Societies program is to enhance youth and equip them with different skills to create new opportunities for them especially in rural governments. Through this program youth are empowered, equipped with skills and exposed to different sectors and activities that prepare them for the market. These talents are then invited to different initiatives such as job fairs and matched to internships or given opportunities to work and learn from start-ups. These students around the nation are well trained through AAST-EC in different functions not just limited to entrepreneurship. These include operations, capacity building, PR and fundraising, talent and acquisition management, marketing, finance and leadership.
Rally Societies Concept
Have a further impact to exert effort to interconnect the societies through the AAST EC’s events and through trained manpower of each society. Also offer further support to each society by covering logistics/ travel, assisting with promotion tools, connecting to mentors and judges, in addition to providing the youth with opportunities to attend events, internships and work opportunities for the most qualified of them.
Through the Rally Societies Program, AAST-EC complies to 3 of its strategic objectives:
The Rally competition is open for all universities across Egypt and students are provided with access an online ideation training regardless of them qualifying to compete or not. Through Rally Egypt entrepreneurs have opportunities to receive mentorship, and to attend events where they are exposed to investors, industry experts, corporates and entrepreneurs in the same phase as they are as well as.
The Rally Societies Program links each university society to AAST-EC and also links most societies to each other. Through Rally Societies, the entrepreneurial mindset is spread more swiftly and efficiently to all governates in Egypt. AAST provides training programs for these societies and supports with the programs each one provides, hence it is the main hub for all other societies.
The system of Rally Societies is sustainable due to the way it is created. The society boards hand over to each other year after year, they have marketing plans for the competition, and thrive not only prepare sufficiently to have winning teams from their own university at the Rally competition but to also win Society of the Year. This ensures the continuity of Rally Egypt where applicants grow year after year without increasing recruitment efforts by AAST-EC.
