22/7/2026
Translated by: Nahed Ashraf Abdullatief
The Community Service and Environmental Development Council at Kafr El-Sheikh University held its periodic meeting chaired by Professor Dr. Amani Shaker, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, with council members and faculty vice deans' attendance, discussing topics enhancing the university's community role and developing services to the local community within the university's orientations toward achieving sustainable development and linking educational-research processes with community needs and labor market.
During the meeting, various faculties' efforts implementing community activities and events during the past period were reviewed, varying between developmental, medical, agricultural, veterinary, and awareness convoys, alongside organizing seminars, workshops, and training courses targeting different community segments, especially women, youth, students, and employees in various institutions.
Dr. Amani Shaker confirmed expanding specialized convoys serving the community directly is important, with the necessity of innovating new specialized convoys linked to different faculties' specializations, including convoys developing professional, technological, craft, and entrepreneurship skills, and convoys for environmental, health, and economic awareness, contributing to achieving maximum benefit from faculty expertise and university capabilities for community service.
The council also discussed faculties' efforts organizing applied workshops and educational seminars aimed at raising awareness about various community issues, enhancing freelance work and entrepreneurship culture, and developing students' and graduates' personal and professional skills, keeping pace with modern changes and local-regional labor market requirements.
The university vice president emphasized increasing university-labor market linkage activities' importance through expanding partnerships with public and private sector institutions, organizing employment and professional training gatherings, and involving business owners and industrial experts in training activities and workshops, contributing to preparing graduates possessing required practical and competitive skills.
Faculty vice deans for Community Service and Environmental Development were directed to prepare clear executive plans, including innovative and measurable activities, focusing activities with direct community impact, and working to invest scientific and research capabilities inside faculties, providing practical solutions for community and environmental challenges.
At the meeting's conclusion, Dr. Amani Shaker praised various faculties' efforts supporting community activities, confirming Kafr El-Sheikh University places community service and environmental development among top priorities, continuously seeking developing its developmental and awareness role, enhancing position as the leading university in the community.
