Education

Egypt

Knowledge Creation and Sharing

The grants-in-aid projects include:

Vocational Training Centre for textile technology in Shoubra, Cairo, which have been completed.
An IT Centre in Al Azhar University, CEIT, is also operational since February 2019.
Government of India also offers CV Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers every year where Egyptian scholars can undertake research in science and technology in prestigious Indian Research and Development (R&D) institutions. The programme has started in the year 2010 and so far, more than 40 Egyptian scientists benefited from the programme. In the field of scientific cooperation, ICAR and the Agricultural Research Center of Egypt are working in the field of agricultural research.
‘Science & Technology’ cooperation is implemented through biennial Executive Programmes and Scientific Cooperation Programme between Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India) and National Research Centre (Egypt).

Capacity Building

The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme was launched in 1964 as a bilateral programme of assistance of the Government of India. Being essentially bilateral in nature, ITEC is about cooperation and partnership for mutual benefit. It is demand-driven and response-oriented. Over the past few years, hundreds of Egyptian government officials have benefited from this programme. There are various training programmes under ITEC and India Africa Forum Summit-III (IAFS-III). Since the year 2010, nearly 1,000 Egyptians have travelled to India under the ITEC/IAFS-III Programmes.
Technical cooperation and assistance have been a major part of our bilateral relationship. Since 2000, over 1600 Egyptian officials have benefited from ITEC and other programs like Indian Council for Cultural Relations ICCR and IAFS scholarships. We have also organized a special course for Egyptian diplomats and a special course for LAS diplomats in 2019 at FSI. In addition, Egyptian and LAS diplomats also participate in Professional Course for Foreign Diplomats, which we organize at FSI.
As far as the academic arena is concerned, a number of Egyptian students have benefited from ICCR and other scholarship schemes to study in India. The MoU for first ICCR Chair was signed with The Ain Shams University in March 2016 and accordingly, the Indian Chair on Bioinformatics was established from September 2016 and continued to 2018.