In the frame of Benha University's "BU" policy to open up to local, regional and international universities for maximizing the partnership opportunities between them, BU International Relations Office has organized a webinar with the American University in Cairo "AUC" under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed - BU President.
The participants in the webinar from BU are: Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, BU Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs; Prof. Hala Zayed, the Dean of the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence; Prof. Mahran El Naggar, the Director of the International Relations Office; and Prof. Abdel Samiee Halawa, from the Faculty of Medicine.
The participants in the webinar from AUC are: Prof Ehab Abdel Rahaman, the AUC Vice-president; Prof. Alaa Idrees, the Deputy Assistant for Scientific Research; Prof. George Marqes, the Dean of Students' Affairs; and Prof. Ahmed Abdel Latif.
El Gizawy said that the webinar discussed the ways of cooperation between BU and AUC at the level of academic programs, scientific research, innovation and creativity, in order to maximize the use of the financial and human potentials of the both universities.
In the same context, AUC invited some professors with students from BU to visit it to identify the opportunities available in it, the nature of study and the various fields of scientific research.

Prof. Gamal El Saeed, Benha University President congratulated Prof. Ahmed Taher Saleh Azar, the Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence for selecting him among the World's Top 2% of Scientists and ranked 623 from 215,114 scientists in the field of artificial intelligence.
The ranking list has been published by Stanford University in PLOS Journal based on Scopus:https://esee.ly/vxpU2T
It is worth mentioning that Prof. Ahmed Taher Saleh Azar has got recently "Shoman Arab Researchers Award 2020" on the subject of machine learning (computers) and major analytical data.

Under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed - Benha University President "BU", the University participated in the Virtual Forum for the African Higher Education Institutions which held by the Association of African Universities "AAU" at Alazher University.
Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, BU Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs said that BU was represented by Prof. Ahmed Youssef, the Director of the International Students Unit and Prof. Mahran El Naggar, the Director of the International Relations Office.
El Gizawy added that AAU is the voice of higher education in Africa and the Forum is considered an opportunity for consultation, exchange of information and cooperation between higher education institutions in Africa. He also said that the Forum aims to provide the opportunity for African higher education institutions to communicate and acquaintance by introducing each institution to itself in order to enhance cooperation between African higher education institutions and achieve the development for the African continent.

The Stanford University has released a list that represents the top 2% of the world scientists. The exhaustive list has nearly 160.000 scientists from 149 countries based on Scopus in 176 disciplines as the following link:https://esee.ly/vxpU2T
Prof. Gamal El Saeed, Benha University "BU" President said that 14 scientists from BU have got 7 ranks in various scientific fields according to the list of Stanford University for World's Top 2% Scientists.
In this regard, El Saeed congratulated the University's scientists named in the World's Top 2% Scientists' List wishing more success for them during their careers.
Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, BU Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs said that the appearance of some BU scientists in this international report is a significant achievement for the researchers of BU, as it indicates the quality of their research outputs, referring that the report depends on the Scopus database of Elsevier, which published recently in the PLOS Biology and classified into 22 scientific disciplines and 176 sub- disciplines.

The Entrepreneurs Club - Technology Innovation Commercialization Office - Benha University (TICO) organized, with collaboration of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 3 days free training program on "How to write Smart Business Plan for Startups" under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed, the University President; Prof. Tamer Samir, the University Vice-president for Education and Students' Affairs; and Prof. Gamal Sousa, the Supervisor of the University Sector of Community Service and Environment Development.
It is worth mentioning that the training comes as a celebration on the occasion of the Global Entrepreneurship Week "GEW" to spread the culture of entrepreneurship and introduce the existence of other job opportunities available that are unfamiliarity, so that the university graduates will be part of creating a new business environment in Egypt and providing job opportunities as well as enhancing the spread of self-employment culture.

Benha University "BU" participated, under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed - BU President, in the Heritage and Silk Road Contest held on the sidelines of the University Alliance of the Silk Road "UASR" meetings at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan throughout Zoom Application.
Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, BU Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches' Affairs said that BU is the only African university participated in this Contest with a video designed by Student/ Mustafa Ayman Mustafa, from the Department of Chinese Language, Faculty of Arts.

Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, Benha University "BU" Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs participated and represented BU, on behalf of the BU President, in the 6th Executive Office meeting of the University Alliance of the Silk Road "UASR".
The meeting was held during the final events of the Annual Forum of the UASR Presidents which hosted online by Xi'an Jiaotong University - China and Politecnico di Milano - Italy in the duration from November23 to 27, 2020.

Benha University International Relations Office "IRO" organized a webinar under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed, BU President with the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA to discuss the ways of cooperation between the two parties.
Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, BU Vice-president for Post Graduate Studies and Researches' Affairs said that the webinar discussed the opportunities for cooperation between the two universities at the level of post graduate studies programs for academic degrees and professional diplomas in the artificial intelligence as well as dual master's and doctoral programs in the engineering sciences.

Dr. Nevin El-Kabbaj, the Minister of Social Solidarity and Dr. Randa Mustafa, Benha University Vice-president for Community Service and Environment Development Affairs on behalf of the University President have signed a cooperation protocol between the Ministry and the University to establish a unit for social solidarity inside the University.
In this regard, Dr. Randa Mustafa said that the unit seeks, in cooperation with the Sector of Community Service, to provide community services to students, referring that the Ministry will support the presence of a representative from Nasser Social Bank and an official from the Ministry to support small projects for students and follow-up graduates as well as support entrepreneurship.

Prof. Dr. Nasser El Gizawy, Benha University Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches' Affairs said that the University Sector of Postgraduate Studies and Researches has issued; under the patron of Prof. Dr. Gamal El Saeed, the University President; a booklet in English about the University International Relations in addition of details about studying at the University and its various faculties within a series of books that aim to highlight the position of the University on the local, regional and international levels.