The Chancellor Innovation Award at the United Arab ‎Emirates University is the main platform to engage ‎students, faculty, and employees that support ‎innovative thinking, scaling, and research that ‎deepens both existing and new innovations to provide ‎creative and cutting-edge solutions to counter ‎challenges in UAE. The competition aims at raising ‎awareness of innovation and its potential to foster ‎growth, entrepreneurship and provide solutions for ‎challenges in the United Arab Emirates in the ‎following areas: renewable energy, transportation, ‎education, health, water resources, space, technology, ‎social innovation, and administrative innovation.‎

Prof. Ahmed Murad, Associate Provost for Research, ‎said that the award comes in response to the national ‎strategy to promote innovation and scientific research, ‎which aims primarily to enhance the culture of ‎institutional and scientific innovation in all fields. He ‎added, "The current award has received 106 ‎nominations in the fields of the national strategy-‎adopted innovation, for categories of faculty members, ‎students, and staff, with a total of up to 235 ‎participants, including 128 students. After the ‎screening process, 91 applications were approved for ‎final evaluation by the arbitration panel. ‎

The evaluation resulted in selecting 13 out of 27 of the ‎approved Chancellor Innovation Awards.  7 student ‎projects won in the fields of water, renewable energy, ‎transportation, technology, administrative innovation, ‎and health. This is equivalent to 54 percent of the total ‎winning awards, while 4 faculty projects won, in the ‎fields of health, technology, water resources, and ‎renewable energy, and 2 staff projects won in the ‎fields of health and technology. ‎

The Associate Provost for Research emphasized that ‎the university administration, through the direct ‎support of His Excellency Zaki Nusseibeh - Cultural ‎Advisor to His Highness the President of the UAE, ‎Chancellor of the UAEU - and the university’s senior ‎management, had a great impact to promote this award ‎and expand the participation that provided the ‎opportunity for researchers from faculty members, ‎students, and staff to release their ideas and scientific ‎innovations towards future foresight.‎

This year the winners were: ‎

• Sabeera Haris, Prof. Ali Hassan Al Marzouqi, “Water ‎Resources”‎
• Mohsin Raza, Prof. Basim Abu-Jdayil “Renewable ‎Energy”‎
• Asna Madathodika, Prasanthi Achikkulath, ‎‎“Transportation”‎
• Hanan Fekri Kharbash, Jawaher Saif AlGhfeli, Aisha ‎Fahad Alraeesi,Shamma Sultan Al Saedi ‎‎“Technology”‎
• Balqis Al Breiki, Tetiana Habuza, Dr. Fekri Kharbash, ‎‎“Administrative Innovation” ‎
• Mohammad Zishan Akhtar, Waqas Baba “Health”‎
• Mohamed Osman Abdel Ghany, “Health”‎
• Labeeb Ali, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, and Dr. ‎Mohammednoor Al Tarawneh, “Renewable Energy”‎
• Prof. Abdulla  Mahboob, “Health”‎
• Prof. Amr Amin, “Technology” ‎
• Prof. Hakim Saibi,” Water Resources”‎
• Hassan Mohamed Hassan Abdalla, “Health”‎
• Eng. Muthanna Ahmed Aziz and Dr. Waleed Khalil ‎Ahmed “Technology”.‎