The British University in Egypt: Key Partner in the 12th All-Africa University Games “Cairo 2026”

The British University in Egypt today opened the African Scientific Conference on University Sports “Cairo 2026” on its school, among numerous functions it is playing in the 12th All-Africa University Games.

Under the patronage of H.E. Professor Abdelaziz Konsowa, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Acting Minister of Culture, the conference was opened by President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Mohamed Loutfi MBE and H.E. Professor Ashraf Sobhy, President of the Federation of Africa University Sports(FASU )and previous Minister of Youth and Sports. The Games go to 16 September 2026.

The opening was participated in by Mr Leonz Eder, President of the International University Sports Federation(FISU), in addition to university leaders, academics, and agents of university sports bodies from throughout Africa.

The conference includes 130 research study documents on the future of university sport, covering the healthy school, governance, special needs, anti-doping, sports marketing, expert system and e-sports, skill recognition, and sport for peace and sustainable advancement.

Teacher Loutfi stated that hosting the conference shows The British University in Egypt’s view that a university’s function extends beyond its school, which sport and clinical research study can integrate to construct more powerful organizations that serve their neighborhoods. He stated the University hosts the head office of the Federation of Africa University Sports and is FISU’s unique scholastic partner throughout Africa and the Arab area, a function that connects research study with practice and with the tactical preparation of university sport.

H.E. Professor Ashraf Sobhy stated that university sport is among the primary channels uniting youths throughout Africa, which holding the conference together with “Cairo 2026” supports the exchange of understanding and cooperation amongst African college student.

The conference is among a number of functions the University is playing throughout the Games. As host of the FASU head office, it is accommodating university presidents, senior leaders, and delegations from throughout Africa on its school, and supplying centers and organisational assistance for the occasion.

2 weeks previously, The British University in Egypt school hosted the torch relay event for the 12th All-Africa University Games, which combined university sports leaders and trainees ahead of the competitors. Throughout the Games, the organization is likewise holding a workshop on the advancement of university sport and the African University Vice-Presidents’ Forum, under the title “University Sport as a Catalyst for Institutional Excellence and African Development”.

The University stated its participation in “Cairo 2026” extends beyond hosting occasions to supporting the delegations and organizations participating, and shows its position as a centre for scholastic and sporting cooperation in between Egypt and nations throughout Africa.

About The British University in Egypt

Following a 1998 Memorandum of Cooperation in between the federal governments of Egypt and the United Kingdom, The British University in Egypt was established in 2004, and is Egypt’s leading personal British university. Acknowledged for its academic quality, robust scholastic governance, and extraordinary graduate work, it is among the couple of Egyptian Higher Education organizations to provide ‘double degrees’, where trainees carry out undergraduate and postgraduate awards verified by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Universities and among our UK collective partners, Manchester Metropolitan University, London South Bank University, and Queen Margaret University.

The University is the very first QAA-accredited university in Egypt and North Africa, showing accomplishment of the 10 European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance, and is a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum (Great Charter of Universities), supporting the concepts of scholastic liberty, institutional autonomy, social work, conservation of humankind and sustainability, and the promo of success and knowledge around the world.

With 13 professors and a trainee body surpassing 13,000, The British University in Egypt is understood for its ‘knowing by doing’ technique, dedication to local and international sustainable advancement objectives, and unequaled trainee life experience.