Tarek Elabbady , CMIC Director launched the Student Collaboration Technologies lab at the Faculty of Engineering , Ain Shams University in the presence of Prof.Hadyah El Hennawy, Dean of Faculty of Engineering. This lab is considered the first Collaboration Technologies lab in the Egyptian Universities. CMIC offered Ain Shams University this research grant as part of its mission to promote a collaborative culture of research and innovation. The research grant support graduate students working in the domain of using intelligent agents in the sphere of e-learning education with the help of collaborative learning.

Cairo Microsoft Innovation lab hosted the Tablet PC in Higher Education Workshop. The workshop consisted of two sessions ; the first was held at CMIC, and the second was held at Microsoft Natural Language Processing Lab at Cairo University with Engineering Department students. The presentations demonstrated how the Tablet PC significantly changes the way students and teachers interact.

Microsoft organized the Student Festival where more than 800 student were invited from different universities to participate in this huge event filled with activities and important sessions. Hani Helal Minister of Higher Education, Ahmed Zaki Badr Head of Ain Shams University and Karim Ramadan General Manager Microsoft Egypt attended the festival. During the student festival CMIC launched the Internship Program 2008 targeting talented undergraduates in the field of computer science and computer engineering. CMIC booth had captured that attention of many young talented researchers who were engaged in CMIC RSDEs presentations for some demos representing different types of applied research projects in CMIC.

The final presentation was held in the AUC campus presenting the project of the winning 4 team student group from the AUC after spending the summer with us. BSpark Team(Mona Mahfouz, Soha Sultan, Khaled Hafez, Tarek Hefni) during their internship period they worked on implementing the proposal by which they won the competition. Their project was a peer to peer mobile application for file sharing over BlueTooth.

The Teenovation competition, which was part of CMIC's greater internship program, for summer 2007 concluded with a final presentation by the Teenovation finalist, Ehab Ashraf. Ehab chose to explore social networks and the different features each provides in terms of graphics, privacy, and other user interface features. Ehab shared his personal view on how to make social networks part of each student's educational life.

As part of an initiative to engage with the Academic Community, CMIC signed on July 1st the University Grants Gift Letters and Agreements to fund four worthy projects to be a part of a collaboration effort between CMIC and the Universities. The four universities included in the grant programs are The American University in Cairo, Helwan University, Ain Shams University, and Cairo University. Each University research team has a CMIC Researcher as part of the collaborative research to lead them and mentor them throughout the project duration.