The University of Suez is a public university established following its separation from Suez Canal University by Presidential Decree No. 193 of 2012. The university comprises sixteen faculties, with a total of 15,396 undergraduate students and 3,814 postgraduate students, in addition to international students. SU aspires to be a driver of development and sustainable growth, adding value to its environment at a globally competitive level. Furthermore, its mission is to prepare graduates equipped for the labor market, conduct scientific research that addresses societal challenges, and promote sustainable development within its environment, all in alignment with fourth-generation technological standards and national criteria, while aiming for global excellence.

https://suezuni.edu.eg/ 

Founding member present at 1st General Assembly
Membership: Since 2021

Representative:

Associate Prof. Dr. Ali Maged

Ali.Maged@suezuni.edu.eg; Ali.Maged@ymail.com 

Dr. Ali Maged is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, Suez University, Egypt, where he also serves as a responsible member of the University's International Cooperation Office, contributing to the development of strategic international partnerships and collaborative research initiatives. He earned his Ph.D. through a joint scholarship program between Suez University, Egypt, and the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Dr. Maged has supervised numerous Master's and Ph.D. candidates from Egypt and abroad and is actively engaged in fostering international research cooperation and academic capacity building. He regularly contributes to the organization of international scientific conferences, workshops, and symposia and serves as a reviewer for several leading international peer-reviewed journals. His scholarly contributions include approximately 50 scientific publications, encompassing high-impact journal articles and book chapters. He has substantial experience in developing, coordinating, and managing internationally funded research projects and multidisciplinary collaborations involving academic institutions, research organizations, and industry partners. Dr. Maged's research is dedicated to advancing sustainable solutions for global environmental challenges. His current interests include advanced water treatment technologies, environmental remediation, sustainable materials and geopolymers, waste valorization and circular economy strategies, resource recovery, and climate change adaptation and mitigation

South Valley University (SVU), Qena-Egypt covers the largest area in the country since it provides direct teaching services to approximately 20% of the total area of Egypt. As compared to this geographical weight, SVU is committed to a big social service role in the region of Upper Egypt. As a matter of fact, for a complete period of 25 years as an independent university, SVU has been serving the mission of a distinguished higher education institution, to comprise its cultural, educational, and service commitment.

SVU has more than 54'000 students enrolled throughout its teaching institutions, with more than 4'000 diploma, MA, MSc and PhD graduate students. These enrolment figures are a tribute to the creative staff and their responsible dedication to their students. SVU has also initiated non-traditional distance and open learning models that add to the enrichment of the cultural and educational development of Upper Egypt. Furthermore, SVU is ranked 17 among the top 100 Universities and Colleges in Africa according to "4 International Colleges and Universities". SVU has also worked with academic institutes in China, Italy, UK, Sweden, Greece, Spain, France and Germany. Furthermore, SVU has received funding from programmes such as TEMPUS, FP7 and Erasmus plus.

In addition, SVU helping in preparing the overall teaching material, raise awareness of solar energy education and medical engineering in Upper Egypt, ensure certification of the programme and help recruit top-calibre graduate..

http://www.svu.edu.eg

Membership: Since 2022

Representative:

Prof. Prof. Dr. Youssef Gherbawy, Youssuf.gherbawy@svu.edu.eg

I am currently president of South Valley University for Community Services and Environmental Affairs. I am Professor of Mycology, faculty of Science. I have completed my master and Ph.D. degrees in Assiut university. I finished my postdoctoral (3 years) work in University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). I spent three months financed by DAAD at Institute of microbiology (Hannover Univ.), Fungal reference centre (Jena) and Botany Institute (Hohenheim Univ.) three months short term visit from the Royal Society at Rothamsted Research station, Uk. I have published or co-authored 90 journal papers, 4 book chapters and I edited with Prof. K. voiget very interested book titled Molecular identification of fungi. I have supervised and co-supervised 9 master students and 5 Ph.D. students outside and in our Department. My Total no. of Int. publications in SCOPUS are 66 and h index (SCOPUS only) is 10. I was the recipient of a scientific publication award by my institution five times (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) for being a prolific publisher of research papers in international journals. Also, the award of SVU for Scientific excellence in 2013. I finalized 25 research projects financed from different funding bodies in Saudi Arabia during my work there for 10 years.