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The agency provides many services to both

students and faculty members, with a
special focus on French departments in the
faculties of arts, translation, law, economics
and political science. We offer training

programmes for professors and scholarships
for students to study for master's and
doctoral degrees, with more to be offered
next year.
Q5: How do you assess the impact of the

visit of French President Emmanuel Macron
The agency also has expertise in the field of
on strengthening cultural and educational
digital transformation, and we offer training
cooperation between Egypt and France?
programmes in this field. In the same

context, we provide many online master's
The visit of the President of the Republic to
programmes and offer digital and logistical
Cairo University is an important and
support to help various universities convert
positive development, which has led to a
their programmes to online programmes.
revival of cooperation between Egyptian
We have also established a recruitment
and French universities, resulting in the
centre at Senghor University in Alexandria,
signing of a number of memoranda of
a Francophone university, to help students
understanding, as well as contributing to or
with employment after graduation by
accelerating the opening of the French
training them.
department at Kasr Al-Aini in September, in
addition to the partnerships that have been
I would like to point out too that although
established at the level of research centers.
we are a Francophone agency and most of

our activities are conducted in French, we
Speaking of French departments, I would
offer training programmes in Arabic or
like to point out that teaching in the French
English at our employment centers. We are
department at the faculty is not based on the
also currently working on two externally
French language alone, but that there are
funded projects, one of which is funded by
also subjects taught in English and Arabic,
the European Union to develop
which distinguishes us in Egypt because
employment centers in Egyptian, Lebanese,
relying on one language, such as French, is
Palestinian and Cypriot universities, and the
not enough.
other is funded by the French Ministry of
I realised this even more when we started
Foreign Affairs to develop artificial
our cooperation and partnership with Paris
intelligence education in Egypt, Lebanon
1 Pantheon Sorbonne University, we were
and Palestine. The agency also funds
praised for our faculty of economics and our
universities that wish to organize
professors, programmes and graduates,
conferences or prepare research papers.
especially alumni such as Dr. Chahir Zaki
and Dr. Racha Ramadan because they

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