Attend an Open Innovation and Creative Thinking Techniques Programme in the UK.

The Centre for Continuing Professional Development (CCPD) within Imperial College London's School of Professional Development presents a diverse range of cutting edge courses for professionals working in science, technology and medicine. The majority of courses are taught at the South Kensington campus and are open to all on a fee paying basis. Modules from several Masters Programmes are made available as CPD short courses as an initiative to provide flexible education for full-time working professionals.

Open Innovation is a potential answer to tap into creativity and knowledge outside an organisation. It exploits a creative power of users, communities and customers to co-develop new products, services and processes.

The course will explore an emerging range of companies using open business models (e.g. Google, Facebook) and challenging traditional business approaches. It will cover a creative thinking process and idea development tools which will be supported by practical group exercises

Benefits of Attending?
Delegates will benefit from identifying open innovation sources and open business models to expand their knowledge of developing partnership and co-creation approaches.

Who Should Attend?
The course is specifically designed for delegates wishing to develop their creative thinking skills and techniques which can be successfully used for innovation management, entrepreneurship, new service development and decision-making.

CPD Approval & Certificate of Attendance
All participants will be awarded an Imperial College London Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course.

Duration: 1 day (July 3, 2015.)
Fees: £250

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Celebrating Africa's First Female Aviator - Lotfia El-Nadi

Lotfia El-Nadi (1907-2002)

This week, you may have come across this image on Google. It is a portrait in honor of Africa's first and world's second female aviator, Lotfia El-Nadi. Travel Army also joins Google, Africa, Egypt and the world in celebrating her.

**An image of the pilot wearing an aviator helmet appears on Google Egypt's 

homepage on Wednesday, what would be her 107th birthday**

Born in 1907, El-Nadi made news when she became the first Egyptian woman to fly a plane solo from Cairo to Alexandria in 1933 in an international race.
She's considered the second woman to fly solo, after Amelia Earhart.

After graduating from the American College in Cairo, El-Nadi's dream got started when she heard about an aviation school opening in Egypt in 1932, the country's first.

She took a job as a secretary at the school and, without her family knowing, began taking lessons in secret with a French flying instructor, with the support of Kamal Alwi, the head of EgyptAir at the time.

Alwi thought women pilots would be good publicity for both the school and the airline.

She earned her pilot's license after only 67 days of training, at the age of 26.

In 1955, El-Nady travelled to Switzerland for medical treatment and lived there for a long time. She never married.

She died in Cairo in 2002.

Source: ahramonline

Images Courtesy Google