ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, visited Cairo, where he met the Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and the Minister of Education Mohamed Abdel Latif, in the presence of the Agriculture Ministers, Public Enterprises and Water Resources and Irrigation.
During the meeting, protocols were signed between the Egyptian authorities, 89 Schools of Applied Technology and 5 Italian ITS Academy in the fields of mechatronics and sustainable mobility, chemistry, textiles, health and agri-food. The signature follows the path started with the Memorandum signed by Minister Valditara in March 2024 and with the Letters of Intenti signed in February 2025.
A passage that testifies to the excellent state of the relations between Italy and Egypt and imprints new impetus to the cooperation between the two countries in the field of technical training for the benefit of enterprises in the Mattei Plan.
Prime Minister Madbouly reiterated that technical education is the basis of an economy based on knowledge, underlining the excellence of the Italian model, and highlighted that this result only marks the beginning of an even wider collaboration. Minister Latif underlined how these agreements represent bridges of cultural and economic cooperation, based on the exchange of experiences, on the updating of curricles and on the qualification of technical paths according to the highest international standards that the Italian formative model guarantees.
“It is a decisive step to strengthen educational cooperation between Italy and Egypt. Investing in technical and professional education means supporting economic and social development, focusing on paths strongly integrated with the productive world, such as the ‘4+2’ model. We have also invested in Artificial Intelligence and intend to create a working group dedicated to good practices and transversal skills,” said Minister Valditara.
“The opening of ITS in Egypt will involve enterprises and form fundamental skills both for local development and to respond to Italian professional needs. The extension of Italian teaching to middle schools, and not only to high school, together with the results achieved in the formation of Egyptian teachers, shows that we are going in the right direction,” Valditara added.
All the Ministers present expressed a strong appreciation for the Italian model of 4+2, recognized as particularly effective in the integration between school and business, asking Italy to export not only the experience of the ITS Academy, but also that of technical and professional schools.
At the Salesian Institute “Don Bosco”, Minister Valditara has also handed over the certificates to thirty Egyptian teachers of Italian language who completed the training course promoted by the Ministry and awarded the most worthy students, confirming the central role of the Italian school in Cairo as a reference point capable of combining tradition and innovation.
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