For the second year in a row, the Center of Excellence for Water at The American University in Cairo (AUC) is participating in Cairo Water Week (CWW) 2020, one o
An Egyptian team of two undergraduate students: Habiba Abdelwahed, construction engineering senior at AUC who is minoring in business, and Abdallah Mohamed from the German University in Cairo, rece
As reported by the United Nations, Egypt is facing an annual water deficit of
According to the World Bank, with rapid population growth and urbanization, annual waste generation is expected to increase to 3.4 billion tons in 2050.
AUC and Alexandria University are partnering to establish a USAI
June 3-5, The TL Symposium is a student-led conference that aims to improve students' intellectual, personal, and civic skills through high-impact experiential and hands-on learning. It aims to enhance students' awareness of the social problems in the MENA region to achieve the objective of becoming civic-minded and gender-conscious leaders who can advocate for evidence-based public policy reforms.
May 26-28, Along the same lines related to climate change and proactive, innovative actions to support incorporating sustainability, the first-of-its-kind Net Zero International Conference brought together education institutes, government representatives, the private sector, financial institutes, and civil society to explore opportunities and debate challenges and transfer knowledge to help pave the way towards a Net Zero future.
May 2 - 3, The School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) held the Urban Climate hybrid symposium titled Cities and Climate Change in Developing Countries.
March 12 - 16, This was an experiential artwork to inform people of the possible futures we face as humans if we do – or don't – change our attitudes towards the environment.