23/10/2023
Dr. Abdel Razek Desouki, President of the University, congratulated the Enactus Egypt student team, represented by the Enactus University team at Kafrelsheikh University, for obtaining first place and winning the Enactus Cup for the best project in the world for the year 2023, which was held in the Netherlands. It is a global competition for creativity for the sake of community service, in which universities from Various countries, and this is the fifth time in a row and the seventh time that Egypt has been the champion of the Enactus Cup at the world level.
The University President expressed his great happiness with this achievement achieved by the Enactus team at Kafrelsheikh University, thanking Dr. Fatima Serry, CEO of Enactus Egypt, and Dr. Maged Ghanima, Director of Partnerships and Marketing at the Fund to Support Innovators and Geniuses at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, for their efforts with the team. University to reach the international level. He added that the university team won first place in the Enactus Egypt competition at the level of Egyptian universities and represented Egypt in the Enactus International competition in the Netherlands this October, where the Kafrelsheikh University team filtered among 58 universities and 33 universities were filtered and Kafrelsheikh University won. It ranked first among the top 10 universities for their Hermitia project, as the project mainly treats organic waste in a healthy and safe way to produce high-value protein in economical ways to confront the high prices of feed ingredients.
For his part, Dr. Mohamed Al-Al, Vice President of the University for Education and Student Affairs, congratulated the university team for obtaining first place in the world, and explained that the Hermitia Project extracts protein from the black soldier insect, which feeds on food waste, and thus solves two problems at the same time, which is the problem of food waste. The problem of feed is by using the source of animal protein extracted from the black soldier insect. They make fish feed, poultry feed, livestock feed, and ornamental fish feed. Also, in order to achieve an integrated project and exploit all parts of the insect, the students made chitosan from the remains of the insect’s scales. The students also created the first water purifier that can be used in open fish farms and achieve high efficiency for these farms.
It is worth noting that the Kafrelsheikh University team won first place in Egypt, first place in the Orange Company’s Entrepreneurship Competition, first place in the Cairo Bank’s Triple Bottom Line Competition, second place in the Egyptian Development and Export Bank’s Export Competition, and second place in the Juhayna Sustainability Company Competition. And second place in the Orascom Innovation Competition