Aswan University actively participates in international research networks, EU-funded consortia, and global SDG monitoring initiatives that generate, harmonize, and share data for multiple Sustainable Development Goals. These collaborations contribute to reliable, globally comparable datasets used for SDG assessment and decision-making.
- Participation in EU Horizon Research Consortia That Generate SDG-Relevant Data
- REFFECT Africa Project — Renewable Energies for Africa
Project ID: 101036900
Programme: Horizon 2020
Duration: 2021–2025
Official Website: https://www.reffect-africa.eu/#/partners
EU Project Database: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101036900
Aswan University Role
Aswan University is an official consortium partner in REFFECT Africa :a large-scale Horizon project involving 11 countries across Africa and Europe.
Project Data Outputs (SDG-relevant)
The project collects and publishes:
- Biomass composition data
- Renewable-energy performance datasets
- Environmental impact measurements
- Agri-food waste valorization metrics
- Socio-economic indicators for sustainable energy deployment
Relevant SDGs: 7, 12, 13
Partners
1.2 SOCRATES Project — Solar Open Community Instruments for All Residents
EU Horizon Project ID: 101235482
Official database: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101235482
This Horizon Europe consortium develops open tools, measurement instruments, and community-scale solar data models.
Aswan University contributes to:
- measuring solar performance in Mediterranean and African climates,
- developing open, interoperable renewable energy datasets,
- enabling global SDG 7, 11, and 13 reporting frameworks.
In collaboration with international as well as national parties, Aswan University has participated in international collaboration on gathering or measuring data for the SDGs. We are extensively involved in data gathering and measurement related to the goals, across a variety of impactful international collaborations. For example:
Start date 15-01-2021 End date 14-01-2024
Project Reference: 619017-EPP-1-2020-1-EG-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Capacity Building in higher education
Coordinator:
AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY
Partners
- AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY – Egypt
- ASWAN UNIVERSITY – Egypt
- CAIRO UNIVERSITY – Egypt
- DAMANHOUR UNIVERSITY
- ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON – Greece
- UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG – Germany
- UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE – France
The SMARTIES project website showing the partnership of Aswan University in the project “Real time smart irrigation management at multiple stakeholders’ levels”
Role and main responsibilities in the project
It is involved in WP1 for Luxor case study development, WP3 for SMARTIES irrigation strategy and water indicators, WP4 for farm level analysis, and WP5 for dissemination.
Start: 15-01-2020 – End: 14-01-2023
Project Reference: 610439-EPP-1-2019-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Capacity Building in higher education
Coordinator:
RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
Partners:
- UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
- THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
- ASWAN UNIVERSITY
- ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY
- HELIOPOLIS UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
- CITY EKPAIDEUTIKI ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS
“Knowledge exchange in sustainable Fisheries management and Aquaculture in the Mediterranean region”
Start: 15-11-2019 – End: 14-11-2022
Project Reference: 610071-EPP-1-2019-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Website: http://fishaqu.eu
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Capacity Building in higher education
Coordinator:
- UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
Partners
- MATROUH UNIVERSITY
- ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY
- ARAB ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MARITIME TRANSPORT
- ASWAN UNIVERSITY
- SVEUCILISTE U DUBROVNIKU
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
- EVRO-SREDOZEMSKA UNIVERZA
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On the 16 th Feb 2023, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, has an event of The 5th International Conference on Pain Treatment Addresses New Developments and Challenges in Pain Treatment, that was launched in Luxor over three days, where its activities began on Thursday corresponding to 16/2/202023 to 18/2/2023 in cooperation with the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, England (UK) specialized in the treatment of pain in London.
In 2019, The Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, has a collaboration with West China E-Business Company, a subsidiary of the Ningxia Center for Research in the Internet of Things Technology in Agriculture, and the China-Arab Countries Technology Transfer Center (CASTTC) in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.
The collaboration includes the implementation of the open field water-saving smart irrigation management system project. According to the development needs of Egyptian agriculture, this project provides advanced technology and equipment to provide water in the field of agriculture to Aswan University, and the project will be located in the grape field (as an open field) and in the greenhouse of the Faculty of Agriculture.
The aim of this project is to conduct research and demonstrate a water-saving smart irrigation system based on Internet of Things technology. At the same time, this project can facilitate the daily management and field experiment.
Aswan University has a strong collaborative partnership with international partners in order to review comparative approaches and develop international best practice on tackling the SDGs. In 2019, Aswan University is working on boosting the international collaboration regarding the implementation of SDGs. One of these various forms of collaboration is the collaboration with USAID through the partnership in the Center of Excellence for Energy (life of project: February 2019 – February 2024).This project is in cooperation with the USAID and some other Egyptian Universities, to build the research, education, and entrepreneurial capacity of Aswan University, Ain Shams, and Mansoura Universities to address the country’s most pressing energy-related challenges.
Strategically, the primary objectives are to build local capacity for organization and pursuit of a number of market-driven applied research projects that address Egypt’s needs in the energy sector, while simultaneously promoting an inclusive educational culture that focuses on solving local and global problems.
Another partnership “The Center of Excellence for Water” (life of project: February 2019 – February 2024), that was inaugurated on September 12th, 2019 at the Faculty of Engineering – Alexandria University with the presence of the consortium representatives from US and Egyptian Universities, Egyptian private sector companies and several Ministries and Public entities in Egypt. this project is designed to be a state of the art, modern applied research center located within the premises of Alexandria University (AU), Egypt. The Center will be the hub for research and a vibrant network of Egyptian industries, research centers, and ministries.
The Consortium of the project includes several prestigious US and Egyptian universities: University of California at Santa Cruz, Utah State University, Washington State University, Temple University, Ain Shams University, Aswan University, Beni Suef University and Zagazig University.
The consortium also includes a number of US and Egyptian private sector companies and NGOs: SEKEM Group, Lotus Company, Demerdash Group, Engazaat Development, and the NGO IBSAR, as well as AECOM, Amriton LLC, Apogee Instruments, Carollo Engineers, FREDsense Technologies, Purolite Corporation and Waters Corporation.
During the 5 years duration of the project, the project consortium will be working on developing and demonstrating sustainable governance systems to boost Egyptian research capacity in the field of water, while at the same time enhancing the capacity of Egyptian students and faculty through the creation of four high quality professional degrees, developing a full M.Sc. program and enhancing at least 12 courses that are already taught at Egyptian Universities. The project consortium plans to grant at least 40 small, medium and large research projects, in addition to facilitating the exchange of 350 students to study either at U.S. partner universities or AUC, give access to disadvantaged students to study at the Center of Excellence in Alexandria, provide 100 internship opportunities at US/Egyptian industries, enable 192 Egyptian faculty to be trained in the US and, allow 150 faculty and staff to be trained at the AUC, and allow for 40 visits of US faculty to train hundreds in Egypt.
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And more other projects regarding the SDGs
- Innovative Lifelong e-Learning for Professional Engineers (Start: 15-10-2017 – End: 14-10-2021)
- Academic System Resource Planning: A Fully-Automated Smart Campus (Start: 15-11-2018 – End: 14-11-2021)
- Refugee Teaching Certification Program for Egyptian and Refugee Teachers Enabled by Blended Learning (Start: 15-01-2019 – End: 14-01-2022)
- The Green Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme (GIEP)
- Academic System Resource Planning (ASRP)
- Developing a MSc. Programme in Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Start: 15-10-2016 – End: 14-10-2019)
- Integrating Blended Entrepreneurial and Manufacturing Technology Competency into Socioeconomic Development in Egypt (Start: 15-10-2015 – End: 14-10-2018)
- Smart Grid Technology – A Master Programme (Start: 15-10-2016 – End: 14-04-2020)
- Development of higher Education teaching modules on the Socio-economic Impacts of the Renewable Energy implementation (Start: 15-10-2015 – End: 14-04-2019)
- Climate Change and Sustainability Policy “CLIMASP”
Aswan University has several international collaborations such as:-
- Approval of establishing a Research Center for New and Renewable Energy. In the same context, Prof. Ghallab said that the approval on creating the center was done after a meeting with Prof. Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Al Shafee, professor of dye-sensitized solar cells chemistry and the manager of polymer chemistry program in North Carolina State University. nature middle east, Massachusetts Institute Technology
- And also, Approval on enhancing the fields of collaboration between Aswan University and Sudan University, China in the field of scientific research. Approving on the cooperation protocol between Aswan University and the China-Arab Technology Transfer Center and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in the field of the electronic-Irrigation.
A new curriculum developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development in partnership with the Ministry of Education will help over 300 technical school students in Aswan and Hurghada specialize in Renewable energy curriculum and prepare them for employment in Egypt’s promising solar and wind power sectors