The Supreme Council of Universities, headed by Dr. Khaled Abed El-Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research; Dr. Muhammad Latif, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Universities, and the membership of universities’ presidents, agree on the research plans and executive programs presented by the vices of presidents for postgraduate affairs, which aim to serve development issues and the challenges facing each region to which the university belongs geographically, in order to activate the role of universities in serving society, and in implementation of the assignments of the President of the Republic to the Supreme Council of Universities, during his Excellency’s visit to Kafrelsheikh University on the 14th of last December.

Dr. Adel Abdel Ghaffar, media advisor and official spokesperson of the Ministry of Higher Education, states that the Egyptian universities in the central and western Delta and Matrouh regions (Damanhour - Kafrelsheikh - Menoufia - Tanta - Sadat City - Alexandria - Matrouh) present a set of executive plans with specific time programs for studies and research that serve development issues and contribute to facing the challenges facing the geographical region. The plans include various research points in various health, environmental, agricultural, and societal fields.

The official spokesman adds that Kafrelsheikh University present research plans to develop aquaculture and solve health problems and causes of fisheries diseases with the participation of the faculties of (Veterinary Medicine, Fisheries, Agriculture, Engineering, Science, the Institute of Nano Science and Technology), in addition to maximizing the use of available sources of water and raising its quality while increasing its yield in the vegetation cover in the northern delta, maximizing the utilization of agricultural production and industrial waste, developing environmentally friendly ways to recycle it, developing technological applications for artificial intelligence, climatic changes and their potential impact on the delta region, in addition to conducting research to identify modern trends in the prevention and treatment of communicable, endemic, emergency and rapidly spreading diseases.