The Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, witnessed the signing of the International Scientific Cooperation Agreement (MOU) between the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Department of Design and Urban Planning, the Faculty of Architecture, the research lab for acoustic space and the urban environment (The Center for Research on sound space and urban environment (CRESSON)) and the research laboratory using design Research by Design Lab (RDL), Faculty of Architecture, Grenoble, France. Prof. Dr. Ayman Ashour, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Dr. Philippe Liveneau, representing Grenoble College of Architecture, Head of the RDL Lab, and Team Leader for the French side signed the agreement.

The scientific cooperation team includes: Dr. Amal Abu Dayyah, Faculty of Architecture, Grenoble, Dr. Mohammed Al-Fayoumi and Dr. Ahmed Sami, Faculty of Engineering.

The terms of the agreement include student exchange, faculty members, administrative heads of administration in order to achieve scientific cooperation in the bachelor's stage, graduation project, master's and doctoral levels, in addition to conducting joint research and organizing international conferences and workshops between the two sides.