Higher Education Partnerships Program (HEPP)

The higher education partnership program will support 15 to 20 partnerships between universities, technical colleges, and the private sector in Egypt and the United States.

The engagement of the U.S. and Egyptian business community will be essential to identifying critical private sector and economic growth needs that are not being met by Egyptian higher education, developing prospective solutions to those shortcomings, and working together to implement, monitor and continuously improve the new approaches.

The partnerships will strengthen the institutional capacity of Egyptian higher education institutions by developing new programs that address labor market requirements, revising curricula, improving teaching methods, stimulating better applied research and publications, and providing exchanges between partner institutions, including master and doctoral scholarships to study in the U.S. for individuals that will eventually teach at the university.