A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University has won funding for a research project in partnership with Kingston University UK entitled “Towards Net Zero Carbon Campuses for Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience”, through joint scholarships between the United Kingdom and Egypt for higher education institutions for climate change.

The participation of the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University team came under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Omar El-Husseini, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Mostafa Refaat, Professor of Architecture and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for Education and Student Affairs. The project was selected for funding after arbitration by an international committee.

The research team includes of the Faculty of Engineering:

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Refaat - Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Waled Al-Khitam - Director of the Energy Excellence Center at the Faculty of Engineering

Dr. Fatma Fathi - Architectural teacher

Dr. Hussein Farid - Architectural Engineering teacher

Mr. Mohamed Anwar - Demonstrator in the Department of Electricity Power

The research project was presented in cooperation with Kingston University in London - United Kingdom

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In cooperation with Dr. Heba El Sharkawy, Principal Investigator from Kingston University, and Dr. Christoph Vatsar, a Professor of Architecture at Kingston University and Prof. Dr. Bayan Khazenjad, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kingston University.

It is worth mentioning that one of the outputs of the project is to present ideas through a competition, the results of which will be announced and its outputs presented during the activities of the COP27 forum, which Ain Shams University intends to present a comprehensive vision for this dimension during the forum to be organized in Sharm El Sheikh during the month of November 2022, and the outputs of the research project were as follows next one: -

Submit an Action Plan, developed by the two HEI partners, as a roadmap for achieving net zero carbon on campus by 2050.

Training of 400 faculty staff at both higher education institutions on net-carbon strategies and methods developed through partner research and consultancy.

Training of 1,500 students at each of the participating higher education institutions on strategies and methods for achieving zero carbon emissions developed through partner research and consultancy.

Disseminate the concepts that will be developed through teaching courses and research and learning materials integrated into the academic curricula across participating HEIs that will be developed through partner research and consultancy.

development of international education models; The Joint Master's Degree in Net Zero Carbon Design represented a multidisciplinary design competition where student teams enter the "Pathways to Net Zero Carbon Design" competition providing viable proposals for implementation, and the winning competition entries in COP27 are carefully considered in higher education institutions for implementation.

Involving the community in net carbon issues and the actions to be taken, thus preparing the communities and providing them with the knowledge to enable them to support governments in achieving zero carbon goals.

Partnerships with industry stakeholders to pilot innovative technologies via virtual reality and test and pilot viable strategies in the live labs of both organizations.