Management of agreements and cultural exchange

Definition of the agreement: It is a set of binding clauses agreed upon between the two parties (the university, other parties) and it is similar to a contract.

Procedures of concluding mutual memoranda of understanding

- The memorandums of understanding shall be received from the faculties of the university or the competent authorities after the approval of the Cultural Relations Committee in the faculty and the faculty council, and they shall be in the form of items divided into different sections, explaining the financial transaction that will be followed regarding the implementation of each item and the duration of the memorandum of understanding.

- Then the memorandum of understanding is submitted to the Agreements Committee for study and presentation

- In the event of an amendment to the memorandum of understanding, it is sent again to the faculty to add the required amendment

- In the event of approval, it will be submitted to the Council of Graduate Studies, Research and Cultural Relations, and then to the University Council

- After the approval of the University Council, a copy of the memoranda of understanding is sent to the General Administration of Cultural Relations at the Ministry of Higher Education translated into Arabic for the memoranda of understanding (in English) to obtain security and political approvals. The memoranda of understanding and cooperation agreements are uploaded to the platform of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

- Copies of memorandums of understanding and their translation, after completing the specification form, are sent to the Supreme Council of Universities for approval.

- After receiving the security and political approvals of the memoranda of understanding, they become valid for implementation and signature.

- The agreements also include the Erasmus program, and the Erasmus + program, which are programs of the European Union and the main objective of which is to improve the quality of education through the exchange of faculty members and students and facilitating the movement of students through higher education institutions and take the same procedures of the agreements except for sending to the Supreme Council of Universities, where the letter of the Supreme Council of Universities was mentioned Including that the Cultural Relations Committee, in its meeting No. (139) on 15/9/2019, recommended the following:

- These programs are not agreements or memoranda of understanding, but rather are academic and student exchange grant programs presented to Egyptian and European universities with the support of the European Union to exchange knowledge and strengthen cultural relations between academic institutions.

- Agreeing that these programs are an internal matter for each public university, and that all necessary measures are taken to obtain the approval of the concerned authorities in the event that any of the candidates for these scholarships travels or receives, as is currently followed in accordance with the instructions in the universities, in order to ensure that there is no duplication of work in the authorities concerned and to benefit from these grants due to the limited time frame for them.

• The Supreme Council of Universities recommended on 22/4/2009:

- Not to sign any memorandum of understanding beyond seeking political and security opinion before signing it.

Informing the university by using the term memorandum of understanding instead of an agreement and not signing it before obtaining the approvals of the concerned authorities in this regard.

• As recommended on 10/2/2011: -

- That the memoranda of understanding between the university and foreign or Arab universities or any other bodies are first presented to the university council for approval and sent to the council secretariat to be presented to the Supreme Council of Universities, note that the memoranda containing the granting of a scientific degree are accompanied by the regulations and human and material resources related to it.

Its book was received on 7/5/2017, including:

The necessity of implementing the instructions of Mr. Prof. Dr. / the Minister of Higher Education not to send memoranda of understanding through the General Administration of Cultural Relations.

The decision of the Prof. Dr. / University President No. (821) was issued on 9/28/2020 approving the formation of the University’s Agreements Committee as follows:

Prof. Dr. Shahira Samir Zaki - Executive Director of the International Relations and Academic Cooperation Sector

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Refaat - Director of the International Cooperation Department

Mr. Karam Hegazy - Assistant Secretary General of the University for Graduate Studies and Research

Prof. Dr. Tamer El-Nadi - Director of Grants and Projects Department

Prof. Dr. Sherwit Al-Ahmadi - Director of Expatriates Department

Prof. Dr. Reem Al-Kabariti - Director of Alumni Association Administration

Mr. Ahmed Al-Banna - Director of the International Classification Department

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