42 joint projects with European universities

The Egyptian universities currently implement 33 education projects in cooperation with the European Union (EU) to support the higher education at a cost of 12,44 million Euro, and 9 supplementary structural projects at a cost of 1.1 million Euros.

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Amr Salama said that an agreement was reached with the EU to finance 150 scholarships to university professors and teaching staff to prepare for the projects.