NEWSLETTER OF THE NEO – EGYPT Issue II: May 2018

Welcome to the NEO – Egypt Newsletter. This is Issue number II of the bimonthly newsletter.

After the expiry of the deadlines for application in February 2018, the NEO Egypt have organized, in March and April, a series of Info sessions. The highlight for this period was the organization, for the first time, of a Networking event titled: ICT in Cultural Heritage.

NEO Activities (March – April 2018) 1 March 2018: Meeting of the Egyptian National Cancer Network (Alexandria) 20 March 2018: Workshop of the project “Wind Engineering Skills in Egypt and Tunisia” (Cairo) 1 – 2 April 2018: Information Day at Ibn Sina Arab Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry and its application. (Hurghada) 11 April 2018: Meeting with Vice Presidents of Universities for Post Graduate and Research (Cairo) 12 April 2018: TVET Technical meeting with DAAD & GIZ (Cairo) 12 April 218: Brain storming meeting with YMCA. (Cairo) 17 April 2018: Workshop of the project “ENEPLAN “. (Cairo)

19 April 2018: Networking seminar: ICT in Cultural Heritage Seminar. (Cairo) 22 – 23 April 2018: NAQAAE 5th International Conference “Quality Assurance of Education: Reflections – Prospects – Aspirations”. (Cairo) 24 – 25 April 2018: Follow up workshop on the HAQAA Training Course “A Common Language for QA in Africa”. (Cairo)

26 April 2018: Information Session for staff members of the Supreme Council of Universities. (Cairo)

Planned Activities (May – June 2018) 8 May 2018: Campaign on How to write proposal. (Beni Suef)

14 & 15 May 2018: TAM on “Institutional Internationalization”. (Alexandria)

National Erasmus+ Office (NEO) The National Erasmus+ Office (NEO) assists the Commission, the EACEA and the Partner Country authorities concerned in the implementation of the Erasmus+ Programme. The NEO follows closely the policy developments in the Partner Country, particularly in the field of higher education.

Contacts National ERASMUS+ Office.

96 Ahmed Orabi st. Mohandessin 11th Floor. 12411 Giza Egypt

+20 2 33457296 +20 102 3262 606 neo@erasmusplus-egypt.eu www.erasmusplus-egypt.eu nationalerasmusplusofficeegypt

ICT in Cultural Heritage: A Networking Seminar On April 19th, the NEO organized a networking seminar around the theme of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage, in cooperation with “Education for Museum Studies (EDUMUST)” ERASMUS+ project.

The Networking event was held at Ain Shams University and aimed at increasing the networking and visibility of specialists working in the field of ICT and Cultural Heritage, with an

eye on the ERASMUS+ programme and bilateral programs between Egypt and EU Member States.

The Networking event was divided into four sessions:

Session I: Employing ICT for Geophysical Exploration of Cultural Heritage Seismic, InfraRed, Radar, Cosmic Rays, etc. Session II: Cultural Heritage Documentation MultiMedia Documentation, GIS, Scanning, etc. Session III: Cultural Heritage Presentation Mobile Apps, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Virtual Museums, etc.

Session IV: Funding Opportunities, Projects and Success Stories

The networking event had sixteen presentations about current projects and potential ideas of projects in the field of Cultural Heritage (Virtual reality, Language automatic transliteration,

Mapping cultural heritage, Managing cultural heritage sites, Tangible and intangible heritage documentation, etc.) and was attended by more than sixty staff members from fourty institutions in Egypt.

During the networking event, participants were able to experience a live virtual tour inside the pyramids of Egypt, which is a bi product from two TEMPUS and ERASMUS+ project (VIRCULT &

EDUMUST).

In the last session of the netwroking event, opportunities of funding from the ERASMUS+, in addition to current bilateral funding opportunities with German and Italian institutions were presented.

The after event survey of satisfaction showed an overall satissfaction of 60% (Excellent) and 30% (Very Good), while it anonimously contributed to enhancing the networking of participants in the field of ICT and Cultural Heritage.