The HEEPF aims at assuring the competitive potentiality of higher education institutions and supporting decentralization and administrative autonomy in order to achieve progress in quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in higher education systems and institutions.

The Objectives of the Project

• Creating a competitive atmosphere that helps in the development of higher education institutions (departments/ faculties / universities).
• Encouraging decentralization and autonomy of educational institutions and the continuous self development of the educational process.
• Enhancing the potentials of academic institutions for the development and establishment of modern scientific specializations.
• Strengthening the cooperation and integration between industry and higher education institutions.
• Developing Management Information Systems (MIS).
• Increasing the sources of information, preparing laboratories, and organizing their usage.

The Achievements of the Project

• Financing 158 projects in 90 Egyptian universities with a total amount of US$ 13,884,096.00 Million equivalent to about 82,145,489.00 Million Egyptian pounds.
• Establishing and originating 5 educational programs for the bachelor degree.
• Establishing and originating 35 educational programs for post graduate studies.
• Developing the curricula of 10 educational programs for the bachelor degree.
• Developing the curricula of 44 educational programs for post graduate studies.
• Developing and updating 509 courses.
• Developing and upgrading 122 laboratories.
• Establishing and Developing 71 lab experiment using simulation and virtual laboratories.
• Transforming 519 courses into e-format.
• Financing 23 projects for Information Technology (IT) and Management Information Systems (MIS).
• Financing 15 projects for quality assurance