Activities

List of Activities for the Joint Program between
Hamburg University & FEPS (2012 – 2014)

1- Development and establishment of the Center for Institutions, Economics and Law in Egypt (CIELE) at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University in 2012.

2- Courses offered by German professors (5 professors) in FEPS:

Name of German Professor	Name of Course	Offered as	Members of the course	Date
Voigt	Constitutional Economics	A separate course (5 hours for 4 days)	FEPS Staff (professors and TAs and maybe some economic researchers from outside FEPS)	Oct 2012
Nicklisch	Experimental Economics	A separate course (5 hours for 4 days) + Running an experiment in FEPS	FEPS Staff (professors and TAs and maybe some economic researchers from outside FEPS)	Dec 2012
Gutmann	STATA course and applied case studies on Law and Economics	A supplementary course to Econometrics 2 Course (elective course) – First Semester (taught by Dr. Mona Essam and Dr. HalaAbou Ali) (10 hours: 4 lectures and 2 sections)	Undergraduate students (Fourth year)	Oct 2012
Eger	Law and Economics	A supplementary course to Industrial Economics (elective course) – First Semester (taught by Dr. Abd El Hamid Nawar) (10 hours: 4 lectures and 2 sections)	Undergraduate students (Fourth year)	Oct 2012
Dauner	Public Choice or Institutional Economics	A supplementary course to Public Finance (Dr. Ayman Mahgoub) or Economic Development (Dr. Hala Sakr and Dr. Suzanna) – First Semester (10 hours: 4 lectures and 2 sections)	Undergraduate students (Third year)	Oct 2012

3- Egyptian professors traveling to Germany, for doing research and attending courses:

Name of Egyptian Professor	Activity	Time for Travelling	Notes
Ahmed Ghoneim	Attending conference"Constitutional Choices in the Middle East"	July 2012	Done
Manal Metwally	Research, attending courses and conference"Constitutional Choices in the Middle East"	July 2012 – for two weeks (4-13 July)	Done
Heba Nassar	Research and attending courses and conference"Constitutional Choices in the Middle East"	September 2012 – for 10 days June 2014 for one week	Done
Marwa Shebl	Research	July 2012 – for one month	Done
Mostafa Kamel El-Sayed	Attending conference"Constitutional Choices in the Middle East"	July 2012	Done
Racha Ramadan	Research	October 2012 – One Month	Done
Abdel Hamid Nawar	Research	June 2013 – for one week	Done
Lobna Abdel Latif	Research, attending courses	June 2013 – for 21 days	Done
HananNazier	Research	June – July 2013 for two weeks	Done
Mona Essam	Research, attending courses	June – July 2013 for 21 days	Done
Dina Mandour	Attending advanced summer school courses	June 2014 for one week	Done

4- Egyptian PhD students traveled to Germany, for attending courses, writing their thesis and collecting data if needed:

Name	Activity	Degree	Time for Travelling	Notes
Asmaa Mohamed Ezzat	Attending courses and writing thesis (Joint Supervision)	Assistant Lecturer – Economics Department (PhD Student)	October – December 2012 October – December 2013 August – November 2014		Done
Marwa Mamdouh Sayed Mostafa	Attending courses and writing thesis (Joint Supervision)	Assistant Lecturer – Economics Department (PhD Student)	October – December 2012 October – December 2013 August – September 2014		Done
Israa Adel El-Hussieny	Attending courses and writing thesis	Assistant Lecturer – Economics Department (PhD Student)	October – December 2012		Done

5- A group of 14 German students came to Egypt for one month (mid-September to mid October 2012) and attended courses in three fields: Human rights and Shariaa, Islamic Finance and Introduction to Islamic jurisprudence in FEPS.

6- The first conference on law and economics in the MENA Region was supposed to be conducted in Cairo University on 29-30 September 2013, but also due to security situation in Egypt this was canceled, and the workshop was held in Hamburg – Germany during the period 7-9 November 2013. (8 professors and assistant professors and assistant lecturers participated in this workshop as follows:

Name	Degree	Activity
Prof. Ahmed Ghoneim	Professor	Coordinator, Discussant, and Chairperson
Prof. Gouda Abdel-Khalek	Professor	Keynote Speaker in welcome session and Chairperson
Prof. AmrHamzawy	Associate Professor	Keynote Speaker in welcome session
Prof. HebaNassar	Professor	Discussant
Dr. Mona Essam	Assistant Professor	Discussant
Dr. MarwaShebl	Assistant Professor	Participant by presenting paper titled “Criminal Activities and Rule of Law Before and After the Egyptian Revolution”
Israa Adel	Assistant lecturer	Participant by presenting paper titled “Budgetary Institutions for a better Fiscal Performance: Evidence from Egypt”
HebaEmam	Assistant lecturer	Participant by presenting paper titled “Monetary Institutions in Egypt Post the 25^th January Revolution: An Assessment and Way Ahead”

7- 8 Egyptian undergraduate students (Economics department – English section – third year) travelled to Germany for one month (August 2012) to do their graduation projects there, and they have already submitted proposals for their research. The list of these students is as follows:

Name

1. Rana El-Talawi

2. Mustafa TarekHussien Abbas

3. Omar Khaled Ahmed

4. Aliaa Mohamed Abdel Reheem

5. Dalia Hisham El-Bieh

6. NourKhaled Elwy El-Ghamry

7. Bassant Ahmed Shawky

8. Lamia Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud

In year 2013 another group of 9 Egyptian undergraduate students (English section – third and fourth year) traveled to Germany for one month (August 2013) to do their graduation projects, and to apply for Masters Program there and to gain knowledge concerning Law and Economics. They attended courses on Economics of Terrorism, Behavioral Economics, Economics of Religion; STATA course. The list of these students is as follows:

1- Alaa Ashraf Mohammed MumdouhDarwish. (Fourth Year – Economics Department)

2- BrihanBahaaeldin Ahmed Zidan. (Fourth Year – Economics Department)

3- El-Hussein Ahmed Hanafy Mohamed. (Fourth Year – Economics Department)

4- Mariam Philip FaragRizk Khalil. (Fourth Year – Statistics Department)

5- Samar Hany Mahmoud SamyEasa. (Fourth Year – Economics Department)

6- Ahmed Sherif Kamal Abdelgalil Mohamed. (Third Year – Economics Department)

7-GhadirTarek Ibrahim Salem. (Third Year – Economics Department)

8- Sylvia ZekryNachla. (Third Year – Economics Department)

9- Mary SherifShafik.(Third Year – Economics Department)

In year 2014 another group of 9 Egyptian undergraduate students (English section – third year) traveled to Germany for one month (August 2014) to do their graduation projects, and to apply for Masters Program there and to gain knowledge concerning Law and Economics. In addition they attend summer school courses which include (Introduction to Law and Economics, Economics of the Arab Region, Economics of Corruption, Public Choice, Institutions, Religion and the Rule of Law, Economics of Organized Crime, Economics of Terrorism). The list of these students is as follows:

Name	Department
Name
1- Farida Khaled Abdel-Sattar Kotb	Economics
2- Nourhan Essam Abdel-Moniem Mahmoud	Economics
3- Nabila Ahmed Aboutaleb	Economics
4- Amira Hassan Ameen Mustafa	Economics
5- Engy Abdelwahab	Economics
6- Mariam Hussein Wagdy El- Masry	Statistics
7- Alia Ahmed Fawzy El-Sayed	Economics
8-Marlina Raafat Halaka Ewida	Economics

8- 1 Assistant Lecturer (Dalia Fadaly) went to Hamburg for three months (August- October 2014) for an academic internship, where she works as a researcher and as a teaching assistant in the Institute of Law and Economics. The aim of this internship is capacity building to prepare a new generation t lead the field of Law and Economics in FEPS.

9- The project involved Tunisia (University of Sousse) and the German University of Cairo (GUC) as members in the Partnership project.

10- Issuing the first textbook on Institutional Economics in Arabic. The first translation phase of the textbook was completed in 2012. In 2013, the second phase of translation and revision is performed. A printed edition is scheduled by end of year 2014.

11- Prof. Ahmed Ghoneim (Project Coordinator) has prepared the outline and the material for the first masters program in law and economics to be conducted in FEPS based on the material and outline of the same program available in Hamburg, and we are now in the process of having the acceptance from the university on the program.

12- Assistant Lecturer Ms. Asmaa M. Ezzat will be temporarily the coordinator of the exchange program instead of Dr. Ahmed Ghoneim due to his travel for a long period.