Within the framework of achieving the fifth goal of the sustainable development goals, and two years after the formation of the Alliance of Universities for Gender Equality, which includes eleven international Francophone universities, including the University of Alexandria, the University Agency for La Francophonie (AUF) issued the final booklet summarizing the achievements of the Alliance.
Dr. Ghada Abdel-Wahhab Al-Khayyat, Head of the Information Systems and Computers Department at the Faculty of Business and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Innovations and Distance Learning at the university, indicated that she participated in a workshop in the middle of last month in Paris, representing the University of Alexandria, to discuss the work of the Francophone Alliance for Gender Equality in universities, explaining that she had adopted Work on the project by developing the fourth axis of the axes adopted by the coalition, which is the axis of “education based on equality”.
“Gender egalitarian Pedagogy”, to which the university’s educational innovation system contributed.
She added that the period of work with the coalition was an opportunity to present the achievements of the Egyptian state in terms of working on the issue of women and gender equality, and to present the efforts of Alexandria University in this field and what is being accomplished through the Unit for Combating Violence against Women, as these efforts were referred to in the published booklet, She drew attention to the continuity of Alexandria University’s contribution by accepting a new group of trainees on the MOOC, on the fourth of April 2023, which was the fruit of the Open2Sustain project, in which a number of international Francophone universities participated, including the University of Alexandria. https://www.open2sustain.com/
She added that the University of Alexandria submitted a proposal to the National Council for Women to generalize the training of teachers on education based on equality as an innovative initiative from Alexandria University, and it is expected to bring many fruits at the level of university education.