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Visit of the President of the Francophone Organization to the FEPS
On Monday, May 31, 2021, a high-level delegation from the Francophone
University Agency (AUF) headed by Dr. Salim Khalbous, President of the
Agency, visited the headquarters of the Business Incubator at the
Faculty of Economics and Political Science. This visit came on the
sidelines of their visit to Egypt, to sign framework partnership
agreements between the African Union of Francophonie and the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, and the Higher Education and Scientific Research
(Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar and Deputy Minister Ayman Ashour). The
delegation held several work and discussion meetings with the deans of
AUF member universities, such as Cairo University and Alexandria
University, the Egyptian-Japanese University, the French University in
Egypt, Senghor University in Alexandria, Al-Azhar University, Helwan
University and El Alamein University. In addition to the campus visits,
the delegation visited many cultural places, they took a guided tour to
the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and Al-Azhar Mosque.
The AUF (Union of Francophone Universities) is a global network of
French-speaking higher education and research institutions. It was
founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1961, as the Association of
Universities partly or wholly for the French language. It is a
multilateral institution that supports cooperation and solidarity
between universities and francophone institutions. It operates in
francophone and non-speaking countries in Africa, the Arab world,
Southeast Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean, and Central,
Eastern and Western Europe. In 2020, it has 1,007 members (public and
private universities, institutes of higher education, research centers
and institutions, institutional networks, networks of university
administrators) distributed throughout French-speaking countries on six
continents. The agency is active in 119 countries and is represented by
regional offices and information centers in universities and institutes.
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