A visit from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Ain Shams University

Within the framework of implementing the Social Learning Promotion Project, the Faculty of Education organized under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Hazem Rashed, Dean of the Faculty of Education, an official visit from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the implementing agency for Japanese governmental technical cooperation, in the presence of Professor Atsushi Makino, Professor of Social and Lifelong Education, University of Tokyo, and Shinnosuke Minami, President of the 10 Thousand Meeting Association, Coordinator Project, Haruka Sokuhara, a social learning specialist at the Hantagawa Center and administrator of the online exchange courses.

This was in the presence of Dr. Ahmed Refaat, a lecturer at the Department of Comparative and International Education and a member of the project team, and Dr. Suhaib Shehta, Director of the Community Services Center at the Faculty of Education, to follow up on the work of the project to strengthen community learning centers similar to the Japanese Komenkan centers and social education in Egypt, within the framework of the cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Education at Ain University Shams and Japan International Cooperation Agency.

The delegation visited the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Ain Shams University (ASU-iHub), and Dr. Marina Habib gave a presentation on the center's activities. The Japanese delegation praised the center's activities, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Diaa Khalil, general supervisor of the activities of the center and Dr. Mohammed Al-Buhairi, Executive Director of the Center, and Dr. Weam Mohammed, deputy director of the center.

Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Maguid Saeed, a specialist in Japanese-style education programs, director of the Egyptian Komenkan Center, and project coordinator in Egypt, indicated that cooperation can be made through the project with the Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University in the field of social entrepreneurship, in order to benefit from the experience of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the university in the field of entrepreneurship and the experience of the Japanese side in social and continuous learning, with the aim of contributing to solving social, educational, and economic problems in Egypt and Japan through youth.