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The international conference on water and energy and food
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ismail Abdo, AU Vice-President for Matroh branch affairs raised the importance of finding a solution for the problems of water, energy and food shortage facing Egypt during the coming years through scientific research.
That came during a speech at the international conference on water, energy and food, organized by the Faculty of Engineering on 8th of February 2017 at Alexandria Bibliotheca. This conference is one of the conferences of Tempus project funded by the European Union under title "TriNex" with 9 universities and international bodies and Alexandria Bibliotheca.
Dr. Ismail added that Egypt suffers from water shortage due to the misuse of water because of irrigation with traditional methods. In the area of energy,he indicated that Egypt gets ready to be natural gas producer, but we must concentrate on renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy what are known as clean energy because of eliminating emissions and climatic changes.
In regard to the problem of food shortage and food security, Dr. Ismail said that it represents one of the economic challenges that increased recently because of the large increase in population and reduction of cultivated land area as a result of desertification, salinization and climatic changes. He also emphasizedAU full support to the Conference through plans, research projects and researchers in this vitally important area.
The 34th art gallery of AU Scout teams
Prof. Dr. Essam El-Kurdi, the President of Alexandria University emphasized the importance of student activities in building and development of youth personality. He explained that the university puts the diversity of student activities at highest priorities to provide suitable activities programs for the students.
Dr. Essam opened the 34th art gallery of scout teams in the university on Sunday, 12 February 2017 where he expressed his concern for the participation of the largest number of students in various activities which is an essential part of the university life.
Prof. Dr. Hisham Gaber, AU Vice President for education and students Affairs indicated that the opening ceremony started with standing a minute of silence for the souls Noweiba bus victims. He said that Scout teams from 15 faculties are participating in the gallery in addition to a delegation from Matroh branch.
The gallery is held in the Faculty of Science for 7 days in which four artistic workshops and exhibitions of competing faculties will be held.
Dr. Gaber indicated that participating works in the gallery will be judged the results will be announced.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Deans, Deputies, faculty members, and supervisors of student activities in the university.
The First Tourism Conference of the faculty of Hotels Management Alexandria University Matrouh Branch
The First Tourism Conference of the faculty of Hotels Management Alexandria University Matrouh Branch
Alexandria University studies steps to establish center for detecting scientific plagiarism
The Council of Graduate Studies and Research at Alexandria University during its session held recently headed by Dr. Hisham Gabr; AU Vice President revised the study submitted by Dr. Mustafa El-Naggar; the Deputy of the Faculty of Science. The study is discussing ways of plagiarism detection in researches and theses and establishing AU center for scientific plagiarism detection.
The renewal of the memorandum of understanding between Alexandria and shanghai Universities
The Council of Graduate Studies and Research at Alexandria University during its session held recently headed by Dr. Hisham Gabr, AU Vice President approved the renewal of the memorandum of understanding between Alexandria University and shanghai University for International Studies in China.