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Vol.1 Issue 61 November 2023 ELITE

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Scientific Research. What steps do you aspire to achieve and
the most important challenges that you intend to face?
When talking about Cairo University, we point out that it
is the largest university in Egypt and the Middle East. It
includes more than 270,000 students, 15,000 faculty
members and supporting staff, and 15,000 employees and
workers. What we call “Mega-University” and it has a great
position in the Egypt and on a global level. the world. It is
the university that graduated 3 Nobel Prize winners:
Mohamed ElBaradei, Yasser Arafat and Naguib Mahfouz.
It is a university whose head was Ahmed Lotfy Al-Sayyed,
and Taha Hussein was the dean of the Faculty of Arts. It has
graduated distinguished figures for the Egypt and the Arab
world, and therefore I seek to preserve the value of this
university. This value is measured by the extent of scientific
research it produces, in addition to the level of education
provided. Personally, I am interested in Cairo University
maintaining its scientific level in international rankings with The second very important element in university
rankings is the innovation element. We began working
regard to scientific research, specifically because Cairo
University is first in most rankings in the field of scientific on the innovation unit and supporting innovators at
research, but such ranking should not be guaranteed because Cairo University; supporting them financially,
we always need to develop, especially with many competing technically and otherwise, because Cairo University
universities approaching over the course of the past few throughout its history, unfortunately, has only
years have ranked close to Cairo University's rankings. registered 33 patents, which is not appropriate for such
Therefore, I believe that if we do not develop, we will not be an ancient university, and therefore we intend in the
able to maintain these high positions of the university with coming period that we will work to increase the patents
regard to scientific research indicators. Naturally, I am very issued by Cairo University. It was pointed out that
interested in increasing scientific research at Cairo everyone who belongs to Cairo University and has a
University in quantity and quality, and as a result we began patent is legally obligated to register Cairo University,
establishing a unit to support researchers at Cairo but this does not happen due to the absence of this
University: the “Scientific and Linguistic Review Unit,” culture among people. Therefore, we are also interested
which is a unit that aims to review research and written in raising awareness in this regard, especially since the
dissertations linguistically and scientifically through Cairo registrant’s right to the patent will not be diminished, as
University’s specialized professors and their contractors; this it is simply an acknowledgment of his affiliation to this
aims to improve the quality of research and overthrow the edifice and his consumption of Cairo University’s
profit-making bodies outside Cairo University that work on resources, which works to support inventors and
these matters illegally, which has a very negative impact innovators with everything required to obtain a patent
because it leads to a decrease in the quality of the research or a utility model. In addition, Egypt allocates large
works submitted and the ease of submitting these works sums in its budget for research services, and some
through these offices (specifically in Bain al-Sarayat). faculties do not benefit from these sums. Therefore, I
Therefore, we are trying to fight these for-profit offices began working with these faculties, including the
through the work of the university and its improvement, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, in order to
which spoils the process of scientific research and education use these sums to support researchers in the faculty
at Cairo University, and this is one of the most important through these allocations.
axes that we are working on. Our work on Cairo University’s scientific journals,
which are 63 journals, of which only 6 are in the Scopus
and Clarivate rankings, about 10%. Therefore, we work
with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank to support scientific
journals at Cairo University, seeking to include them in
these rankings.

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