WHAT
The Center for Sustainable Development at the
American University in Cairo (AUC) is organizing the inauguration of the
project “School of 2030: Education for Sustainable Development in Boulaq El
Dakrour – EduCamp III” .
EduCamp has started in 2010 by the efforts of national and international
institutions to introduce the concept of Education for Sustainable Development
in Egypt. With the budget of 1.4 million euros granted by the EU Tempus
program, the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, in collaboration with the
Center for Sustainable Development at AUC, has launched the Education for
Sustainable Development Beyond the Campus (EduCamp) initiative, which seeks to
introduce sustainable development concepts in Egyptian schools over a period of
three years.
The main objective of the project is to promote
and implement educational sustainability development in Egypt nationwide and
within all education levels. The consortium members of this project include
Egyptian and European universities, NGOs and international organizations. The
objective of EduCamp III is to transform the schools in Egyptian informal areas
into schools that meet the objectives of the country’s sustainable development
strategy “Egypt 2030.”
The project will develop a role model for
Mohamed Farouk Wahdan Preparatory and Gamal Abdel Nasser Primary schools in
Boulaq El Dakrour; that enables them to deliver education in line with the
Egyptian vision 2030.
The project is
managed by professor Hani Sweilam, director of the Center for Sustainable
Development at AUC and the academic director of the Department of Engineering
Hydrology at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. The project is in
collaboration with Al Mofid Foundation for Development and Human Resources and
Rowad Al Ghad for Local Society Development.
The event will be
hosted and moderated by Sweilam and will be attended by representatives from AUC,
the Ministry of Education in addition to representatives from Al Mofid
foundation for Development and Human Resources and Rowad Al Ghad for Local
Society Development and Deutche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
(GIZ) GmbH.
WHERE
Mary Cross Hall, AUC
New Cairo
WHEN
Tuesday, November
28, 2017; 10:00 am
