Under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Abbas
Mansour, the university president, supervision of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud
Khodary, Vice President for Postgraduate and Prof. Dr. Sayed Taha , Vice
President for Community Service , the university was held Symposium on
Programs of German Academic Exchange Service “DAAD”, as Prof. Dr. Abbas
Mansour, the university president in his speech talked about the
importance of cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service in
all fields that includes the scientific research and providing grants
for Egyptians students in order to study in German Universities, while
Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Khodary, Vice President for postgraduate stressed on
the importance of grants that provided by the Authority for the
Egyptians students in various fields , as Prof. Dr Essam Azz Al-Din
Taher, a professor of German at Ein Shams University pointed out to the
program for the cooperation with the Egyptian universities includes
South Valley University
On the other hand, Mr. Michael Harms, Director of the regional office of
the German Academic Exchange Service stressed on the importance of
cooperation with the Egyptian universities and the academic’s programs
in Egypt ,as he explained the definition of the academic , which is
considered the largest granter authority in the world as well as
supporting the international exchange for students , scientists and
researchers , beside promoting the German studies in the world and
enhancing the communication between researchers in the two countries ,
adding that the grants include long grants from one to three years and
short grants such as those that providing for participation in summer
courses in German universities, where the symposium was attended by
deans , Dr. Mahmoud Sayed Abdel Sadek coordinator of student activities
, the academic staff at the university , their assistances and a number
of students at the university