About us
About ASU Co-Portal
The Ain Shams University Community Observatory is a research and applied entity administratively affiliated with Ain Shams University, and its headquarters are located within it. It is concerned with monitoring and analyzing social phenomena and problems within the Egyptian environment, using the research tools and scientific expertise provided by the university, in addition to smart research tools and university, local, and international databases, in order to support sustainable development and Egypt’s Vision 2030, and other initiatives that may arise at the national level.
Vision
The Community Observatory at Ain Shams University should be a leading center in detecting, diagnosing and interpreting community problems, and proposing innovative solutions that contribute to achieving sustainable community development; to be the first house of expertise to support decision-makers.
Mission
Providing research outputs and innovative applied solutions to societal issues, through effective linking of scientific research with practical reality, enhancing communication between the university and society, utilizing university and national databases, promoting social responsibility, through spreading the culture of volunteering, and building strategic partnerships with state institutions and civil society to build a sustainable society.
ASU Co-Portal Objectives
Proactive monitoring:
Building an early warning system for emerging social phenomena to predict them before they worsen.
Data collection:
This is done through a field survey of social phenomena inside and outside the university.
Information governance:
By creating a database at the center to facilitate access to information, to benefit from it, and to link with relevant bodies and decision support centers to ensure the accuracy of the indicators used in measuring and analyzing societal phenomena.
Localization of solutions:
By transforming theoretical scientific messages into actionable initiatives that address the challenges of the local community.
Uniting individual efforts:
By transforming volunteer work from individual efforts to organized institutional work in cooperation with relevant authorities, such as the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Red Crescent.
Submit reports:
To the university administration, which has identified problems, along with proposed solutions and implementation mechanisms, to make appropriate decisions to solve these problems.
Unifying university efforts:
By transforming the efforts made by each college within the university individually, or its affiliated centers, into organized efforts that fall under the responsibility of the Community Observatory, to ensure that these efforts are focused and effective in solving community problems.
Providing consultations:
This is to address social phenomena and find solutions.
Organizing events:
Such as conferences, workshops and seminars to discuss societal phenomena and problems and present them for societal dialogue in order to find solutions and determine mechanisms for their implementation.
Holding training courses:
For students and graduates; to introduce them to ways of monitoring and analyzing societal problems and finding ways to solve them.
Preparing scientific research:
With the aim of monitoring, documenting and analyzing negative social phenomena, addressing them, and drawing the attention of decision-makers to them in order to provide urgent solutions for them.