The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) signed a protocol this week to collaborate on Egypt’s Digital Heritage Portal project.
At the signing event, AUC and MCIT also announced their innovative collaboration to provide expert electronics training for engineering students and fresh graduates in Egypt.
The ceremony, which took place at AUC’s New Cairo campus, was attended by MCIT Minister Amr Talaat and AUC President Ahmad Dallal, the University’s senior administration and Ministry officials.
MCIT and AUC Libraries will be collaborating to safeguard and make available Egypt’s rich heritage in a digital format to researchers and culture enthusiasts through Egypt’s Digital Heritage Portal project.
Through AUC and MCIT’s collaboration, engineering students and fresh graduates from all over Egypt will receive world-class expert electronics training conducted in Egypt’s seven centers for electronics development, all of which have been created in collaboration with AUC’s Center of Nanoelectronics and Devices.
The centers across Egypt include AUC, Smart Village, Alexandria, Borg El Arab, Zagazig, Ismailia, and Assiut. So far, more than 650 students, out of 7000 applicants, joined the program’s first cohort.
