Under the gracious patronage of the Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Baghdad, Professor Dr. Wisam Jabbar Qasim, and under the theme “From the Land of Mesopotamia, Ideas Take Flight,” the College successfully organized the 2025 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week amidst a vibrant academic atmosphere and extensive student interaction reflecting the aspirations of the new generation in building an advanced health future. From February 8 to 12, 2026, the College’s Grand Hall witnessed a distinguished intellectual movement featuring the Technology Incubator and Ecosystem Unit alongside the Rehabilitation and Employment Unit through a showcase of innovative projects that employed Artificial Intelligence and digital solutions to serve nursing practice and develop the efficiency of healthcare provided to the community.
The week’s activities included a series of panel discussions and specialized workshops aimed at instilling a culture of entrepreneurship and self-employment among students, which resulted in the formulation of a comprehensive institutional vision integrated into the Central Committee’s recommendations. These recommendations emphasized the necessity of transforming this week into a permanent annual tradition within the College’s strategy while working diligently to establish a nursing business incubator that nurtures promising projects and converts them into practical, applicable, and investable initiatives. Furthermore, the recommendations stressed the importance of modernizing academic curricula to align with digital transformations in the labor market, opening horizons for cooperation with health institutions and the private sector to provide necessary support and funding for creative students, and allocating annual incentive awards to consolidate the concept of excellence and social innovation.
In a related context, the importance of these trends emerges as a fundamental pillar for supporting sustainable development paths, as the College seeks, through the integration of technology with nursing, to achieve high efficiency in managing health resources and reducing environmental and digital waste in harmony with global sustainable development goals related to good health, well-being, and industrial innovation. The sustainability of these initiatives and their linkage to the actual needs of the local community not only contributes to the development of the profession but also establishes a primary building block for a knowledge-based economic growth that relies on the minds of youth and their ability to innovate sustainable health solutions that serve future generations and support the foundations of the modern state.
