Tarek Elabbady , CMIC Director launched the Student Collaboration Technologies lab at the Faculty of Engineering , Ain Shams University in the presence of 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.

The lab is equipped with 25 state-of-the-art PCs and server machines including Microsoft technologies that facilitate collaboration. This includes Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Live Communication Server, Active Directory Server and Microsoft SQL Server.

The launching event started with an introduction given by Tarek Elabbady followed by a presentation by CMIC team, which included a brief description for CMIC research areas, mission and current projects. The presentation was done by Nayer Wanes (Researcher), Mostafa El Baradi ( Program Manager), Heba Ashour (Research Software Development Engineer).