Ashraf AboArafe
Director of Global Approach & International Cooperation in R&I of the European Commission. Maria Cristina Russo, arrived in Cairo for a two-day visit. She is to meet Dr. Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research as well as Dr. Abdel Majidd Bin Amara, the Secretary General of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils. Russo will also launch, during her visit, the Mediterranean Initiative under Horizon Europe in collaboration with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) to bring together multiple research and innovation stakeholders in the Euro-Mediterranean region to learn about the new calls and cooperation opportunities; as well as seize the opportunity to network with R&I stakeholders from across the two shores of the Mediterranean.