Academic exchanges, and scientific research, Algeria, and Libya want to share their expertise. A collaboration that will facilitate the twinning between the universities of the two countries.
The Algerian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kamel Baddari (photo, right), and his Libyan counterpart, Omran Mohamed El Kib (photo, left), signed a cooperation agreement on Monday (23 January) aimed at implementing a two-year executive program (2023-2025) in the sector of higher education and scientific research, between their two countries.
This program pursues the “strengthening of cooperation and partnership relations in the field of higher education and scientific research between the two countries, and the concretization of the partnership in the fields of scientific research, like the scientific publication and distribution of the results of scientific research,” the agreement states.
For the Algerian Minister, his country takes this agreement as an opportunity to boost the internationalization of its universities and improve their performance. The North African country has made a point of expanding its universities internationally. According to Algiers, no less than 30 twinning agreements link Algerian universities and foreign universities.
On the Libyan side, in addition to hoping to benefit from Algerian expertise in higher education, Minister Omran Mohamed El Kib wants the program to strengthen relations between the two countries.
Without waiting, a first twinning agreement was signed within the framework of this program. This concerns the universities of Algiers 1, Algerian side, and Tripoli, Libyan side. It concerns the exchange of experience and cooperation between the two establishments.
