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GERSS-German Egyption Short Long-Term Scholarship

The Egyption Ministry of Higer Education and Scientific Research (MHESR) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) are Jointly announcing the German Egyption Short-Term Scholarship Program (GERSS) for the academic year 2018/2019

The target group of the program are researchers enrolled in MSc, PhD programs and young Post-Doctoral candidates. The Scholarship may be awarded for a period from three to six months.

The scholarship shall enable advanced graduate students and young scientists to pursue part of their master's, doctoral or post-doctoral research in a specific research project at German universities, archives, libraries or research institutes.

Note, the deadline for application is 15^th May 2017. The application should be submitted online through the DAAD portal. You can find detailed information about GERSS under the following link:

www.daad.eg/GERSS

International Student Seminar

International Student Seminar 2017

The National Competition to select best M.Sc and Ph.D thesis granted from Egyption universities

The engineering sector committee at the Supreme Council of Universities (SCU) is announcing and dministering a national competition among all engineering institutions granting postgraduate degrees, to compete for the best Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses granted during the period (1^st September-31^st August) of the last three academic years (2014/2015-2015/2016-2016/2017).

The criteria for selection of the best thesis will be based primarily on the Sum of Impact Factors (SCOPUS) of International Journals in which papers extracted from the thesis are published. Factors such as patents registered out of the thesis, relevance of research results to the national development plans, number of citations, etc will be taken into account.

This email is an early warning to all concerned deans of engineering to start preparation and implementation of their own selection process of a maximum of 3 M.Sc. theses and 3 Ph.D. theses to represent their college in this competition.

The official invitation will be announced during the forthcoming sector committee meeting due to be held on Saturday 18^th November 2017. The deadline for applications will be the end of November 2017, and the results will be announced by the end of December 2017; during the 18th sector committee meeting.

All state-owned and private universities are included in this invitation: AUC, GUC, BUE, MTC, AASRT, Nile university, Zewail University, EJUST University, Future University, MIU University, Al-Azhar University.

Please do not forward your nominations now, as we will send a template application after the forthcoming sector committee meeting (18th November 2017).

Do not hesitate to call me for any clarifications (0122-7394958)

The 7th international conference on :ICT IN OUR LIVES

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in our Seventh Annual Conference (ICT in our Lives-2017- ISSN: 2314-8942) under the theme “Information Systems For Sustainability”.

The conference is held within the celebrations of the Alexandria University Diamond Jubilee

and under the auspices of

His Excellency Engineer/ Yasser El Kady - Minister of Communications and Information Technology

His Excellency Professor/ Khaled Abdel Ghaffar – Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research

His Excellency Professor/ Essam Elkordi - President of Alexandria University

This year the conference is taking place from the 16th to 18th of December 2017 in collaboration with the department of computer and systems engineering, faculty of engineering, Alexandria University. We cordially invite you to participate in this year conference.

The conference call for papers and all details are available through
ictinourlives.alexu.edu.eg

Information Systems and Computer Department launched this conference series in 2011 under the name "ICT in our lives". Coverage of our previous conferences is accessible through

http://www.facebook.com/ICTinOurLives.

This year the conference is taking place from the 16^th to 18^thof December 2017. We cordially invite you to participate in this year conference.

Your participation is necessarily an added value to the conference. We also appreciate that you disseminate the news of this event in your network of academic and professional contacts.

Submissions are possible in (but limited to) the following tracks:

Algorithms and Applications
Big Data in a Connected World
Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing Security Issues
Collaborative Web-Based Working Environments
Connected Health
Data Base Systems
Decision Support Systems
E-Government Solutions
E-Learning Solutions
ICT-Based Creativity and Innovation
Internet of Things
Geographic Information Systems
Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and Management
Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Open-Source Software and Legacy Software
Pervasive and Adaptive Systems
Social Networks Analytics
Software Engineering
Solutions and Architectures
Systems Engineering
Systems Modeling
Ubiquitous Computing
Web Tools and Technologies

Sponsorship call is still open for companies and institutions willing to join as sponsors. Please email us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details.

Kindly confirm your attendance through email; Please do not hesitate to contact us for any inquiries.

Kindly find the following files attached:

Call attachment
1- Event description.
2- Registration form.

3- A file that describes the login and submission steps on the website.

Registration can be done by bank deposit. Banking details will be communicated through the conference website. Do not forget to email us a scan of the receipt.