The BA Witnesses the Announcement of “Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology” (E-JUST)
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Alexandria—
The BA and the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education co-organized the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) First Symposium, 25-27 November 2008, at the BA.
On the fringe lines of the Symposium, a press conference was held with Dr. Hani Helal, Egyptian Minister for Higher Education, and Shiba Yama, Japanese Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Japanese side stated that Egypt has huge capacities in technology and human resources and that the Egyptian Japanese partnership is a strategic one, since Egypt lies in the middle of the Arab region, Africa, and the Mediterranean. Dr. Helal announced the opening of the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) in September 2009 at Mubarak City for Scientific Research. The University will have colleges for Engineering, Administration, and Humanities. The Arabic and Japanese languages will also be studies at the E-JUST. The students will be enrolled in the University based on scholarships granted according to certain criteria including educational excellence.
Helal added that Egypt will establish the University and provide the land, infrastructure, and Egyptian professors, while Japan will incur the costs of student and research laboratories, the University library, and Japanese professors. Egypt has allocated a budget of 67 million Egyptian pounds from the Education Development Fund of the Egyptian Cabinet for the implementation of the first stage of the project.
The Symposium aimed at highlighting State-of-the-Art trends in research, technology, initiating partnership, and promoting scientific exchanges as conduit for technology transfer between Japan and the region. The Symposium addressed issues related to the establishment of E-JUST and suggested possible courses of action to enhance its activities, strengthen its relation with Japanese prominent professors, universities and institutes; endorse the potential E-JUST educational and research programs, and seek means of dual recognition of academic programs and degrees.