CAIRO, Sept 21, 2018 (MENA) - Egyptian Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghaffar met Friday with the chairman of the supreme council of Italian universities, President of the University of Naples Federico II Gaetano Manfredi. The minister stressed the importance of enhancing cooperation between Egypt and Italy in the scientific and educational fields, as well as boosting the partnership between Egyptian and Italian research and scientific institutions, according to a statement by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The ministry explained that the meeting came in light of the minister's participation in the activities of the international scientific conference on innovation, which is organised by university of Naples Federico II from the period September 20-22. During the meeting, both sides discussed ways of boosting cooperation on establishing a complex for the university in Egypt, in order to help it in enhancing the quality of its university and technical education. At the end of the meeting, the two sides signed a letter of intent to boost the strategic partnership between Italy and Egypt in scientific research and technology and increase the exchange of students and teachers.
