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The Ways of Benefit from Vocational Educational Experience in Germany to be applied in Egypt
10/31/2013

The letter of the supreme council of universities includes the meeting between our ambassador in Berlin with the head of German academic exchange institute to search the ways of benefit from vocational education experience in Germany to be applied in Egypt and link Egyptian universities with the needs of Labor Market including the following:

1)      Including new projects for cooperation between the two countries within the partnership for democratic transformation reaching the amounts allocated to Egypt for projects in the scientific field of 7.4 million euros, noting that Egypt enjoys the biggest share of these projects compared to the countries of the Middle East and Africa.

 

2)      The exchange of seminars between two countries as they held in the last two years seminars in Cairo to exchange academic knowledge and build small projects with Egyptian companies, so workshop is held between  German Maged Borg University for applied sciences and British University in Cairo which focused on the creation of programs to create the spirit of leadership and business among students as the university plans to support follow-up projects with German University in Cairo especially in the field of information technology, research and development in the scientific field.

 

3)      With regard to dual character of educational system in German which links applied education to labor market and the needs of environment, they are ready to apply this education system in Egypt as they have planned to coordinate with their office in Cairo to organize Egyptian mission to visit Germany for study and investigation of Knowledge in this field. This topic will be added as a priority on the agenda of the Ministry of Higher Education.

 

4)      The Authority sponsored a number of twinning programs between Egyptian universities and German counterparts with a focus on the possibility of recruiting Egyptian students in Germany for limited periods to include studies programs of teaching German and training camps in Egypt and Germany.

 

5)       The authority cooperates with the embassy to study the recruitment of Egyptian manpower in Germany bearing in mind that this jurisdiction may include other German authorities.