Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) is a research university with the ambition to cultivate an academic environment and become a benchmark for the Egyptian and African countries in education. It was first established as a bilateral agreement project between the Egyptian and Japanese governments in May 2009, and later in 2010, it was ready to accept its first batch of students and make the dream a reality.
Both governments have a healthy relationship where they both divide the cooperation cohesively to ensure positive results. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) fully supports EJUST by sending their administrative and academic experts for assisting and guiding in the technical and management system of the university, as well as sending academic experts from the Japanese Supporting University Consortium (JSUC) to support in teaching, conduct join research and co-supervising the graduate students. In addition to providing high-level technology of machines, equipment, and tools for research purposes. The Egyptian government runs the university financially and is administered by Egyptian members for both the academic and administrative staff.
All decisions that govern the university are made through its Board of Trustees (BOT) members, composed of 15 prominent figures from Egypt and Japan. They represent stakeholders from the government, academic, and industrial field from both countries.
Vision:
- Status of national and international recognition.
- A first-class international academic institution is known worldwide for its educational system's high standards, the high standard of its graduates, and its research centers' achievements.
- A world-class center of excellence for higher education and research with regional and global reach.
- One of the top 500 international universities within ten years.
- A success story and living proof of the Egyptian and Japanese cooperation promote human development in the region and the world.
Our Mission is to become a role model for graduate education and research institutions in Egypt by fostering the Japanese educational standards, policies, and systems. In this regard, EJUST will foster links of collaboration between the Egyptian and Japanese academic institutions. To promote and support establishing healthy business, technical and commercial ties between Japanese industries and organizations and their counterparts in countries and regions served by EJUST.
Objectives:
- To implement a state of the art educational system based on the Japanese academic concepts and founded on laboratory-based, project-based, and problem-based learning system.
- To introduce modern and advanced interdisciplinary academic programs.
- To establish Centers of Excellence for basic and applied research related to communities, industries, and the environment.
- To promote multidisciplinary teamwork skills.
- To build partnerships with critical Japanese academic and research institutions and industrial companies for conducting applied research that would expose the students and faculty members to the real-life research activities and get them acquainted with the Japanese systems' know-how and advanced technologies.
- To build robust interaction mechanisms with the local and regional industries.
