National Training Academy, KAIST Sign Historic Protocol

After two years of negotiations, a cooperation protocol was signed on Tuesday between the National Training Academy (NTA) and South Korea’s castle of science and technology KAIST Institute.

The partnership coincides with the Korean Institute’s celebration of the Golden Jubilee of its establishment, and its celebration of what it has accomplished for South Korea as one of the oldest educational institutions specializing in science and technology.

“If there were no KAIST, it would not have been South Korea,” the institute’s chairperson said about the institute’s impact on South Korea.

The South Korean ambassador in Cairo visited the National Training Academy on Monday to stress his country's support for that strategic partnership, and to work for more partnerships between the National Training Academy and the distinguished institutions in South Korea.

The agreement was signed via video conference at the headquarters of the National Training Academy, in the presence of  Rasha Ragheb, the Executive Director of the NTA, and at the Institute's headquarters in South Korea KAIST, in the presence of the Institute's president, Professor Kwang Heung Lee, and a number of officials led by Hazem Fahmy - Egypt's ambassador to South Korea, Han Jason - advisor to the Minister of Political Affairs at the South Korean embassy in Cairo.

The joint cooperation includes several axes, most importantly is the establishment of a branch of KAIST in Egypt that would serve as a gateway for its activities in Africa and the Middle East.