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 On 7 October, JSPS executives met in a confab with Egyptian ministry officials, including Prof. Dr. Nadia Iskandar Zakhary, Minister of Scientific Research and Technology; Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Mohamed Sakr, executive director, Science and Technology Development Fund, Ministry of Scientific Research and Technology; and Dr. Galal Eldeen Hamza Elgemeie, First Under-Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs and Missions, Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education, along with Prof. Dr. Ahmad B. Khairy, president, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST). JSPS president Dr. Yuichiro Anzai thanked the Egyptian members for the close collaboration they have given in support of bilateral exchange since the memorandum of understanding was signed between JSPS and the former Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 2009, and spoke of the strong need for collaboration between the two countries. Following some introductory remarks by Dr. Zakhary, the group engaged in an exchange of views in which the Egyptian delegation requested JSPS to expand its bilateral program, support research aimed at industrialization, increase researcher exchanges, give the RONPAKU (Dissertation PhD) Program stronger linkage to the Ministry of Higher Education and E-JUST, and strengthen its support for E-JUST in fields of the humanities and social sciences. In response, Dr. Anzai explained that JSPS’s policy places emphasis on basic research, which would make it difficult to support or carry out programs closely linked to specific universities or research institutions, while strongly agreeing that it will be very important to carry out future academic exchanges in fields of the humanities and social sciences. - Asian Program Division  |
