The University of Suez is a leading scientific education institution within the constellation of Egyptian public and private universities. Aiming to provide an educational environment that has the ability to teach and learn and keep pace with the technological developments and the challenges of the society for the graduate and scientific research in order to develop in the Egyptian society and the participation of the universities of the world in meeting human needs and satisfying them. Participate in the construction of civilization for the sake of human development.

http://suezuniv.edu.eg

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

Representative:

Prof. Dr. Elsayed ELSHARKAWY, Ph.D. Ali.Hassan@suezuniv.edu.eg ; easharkawy63@yahoo.com

Elsayed Elsharkawy s the current Suez University president (Rector) and a physical chemist. He absolved the Mansoura University (Egypt). He was as a professor at the Suez University at Suez (Egypt) a supervisor of numerous students preparing their bachelor and master thesis. He was a supervisor of 30 Ph.D. students and a long-term head of the academic and student’s senate as well as a member of numerous national committees, guarantee of several scientific disciplines at the university Ph.D. thesis. He is author 40 articles and scientific publications. He is a member of several international committees and member of many editorial boards of important scientific journals

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.