First Workshop in Berlin, June 2012
As first project activity, delegates of the participating universities as well as the Ministry of Higher Education travelled to Berlin in June in order to obtain information on equal-opportunity policies at Freie Universität and to discuss their applicability to Egyptian circumstances. In the five-day workshop, the Egyptian project members discussed national equal opportunity policies with Sandra Scheres, Senator for Education, Youth, and Science, and representatives of different institutions at Freie Universität Berlin that are concerned with gender equality issues.
As a central outcome of the workshop, the project members decided to establish centers concerned with the promotion of equal opportunities and a family friendly environment at the Egyptian universities. The family support center of Freie Universität Berlin and the central and departmental gender equality officers can serve as a model for the realization of the centers.