His Excellency Sheikh \u201cHamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan\u201d, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, signed a memorandum of understanding to activate cooperation between UAE and \u201cGreece\u201d on (9\/2\/2014), in the field of higher education and scientific research. His EXcellency \u201cKonstantinos Arvanitopoulos\u201d, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, signed the \u201cMOU\u201d on behalf of \u201cGreece\u201d.<\/p>\n
His Excellency Sheikh \u201cHamdan Bin Mubarak\u201d stressed during his reception for the Greek Minister at his office in the \u201cMinistry of Higher Education and Scientific Research\u201d in \u201cAbu Dhabi\u201d, his keenness on the continuation of bilateral relationships between the two countries, and that signing this memorandum provides significant opportunities to expand the horizons of cultural and scientific exchange between both countries.<\/p>\n
The \u201cMOU\u201d is considered an way for strengthening the brotherly relationship between the two countries, and a furtherance of the economic, cultural, and art cooperation agreement which was signed on the (21st<\/sup>) of June, (1976).<\/p>\n The agreement aims to enhance cooperation between universities and institutions of higher education and scientific research in both countries, and cooperation in the fields of research and technology, especially in mutual research projects, as well as participating in seminars and conferences held in both countries and exchanging visits for experts, researchers, technicians, and faculty members of higher education institutions for research and educational purposes. In addition, it aims at exchanging information about academic quality, results evaluation, curriculum development, students and graduates affairs, and qualifications for higher education institutions.<\/p>\n It has been agreed within the \u201cMOU\u201d on all matters related to scientific and cultural activities of students and exchange of visits between them, and on participating in art and scientific exhibitions in both countries. The \u201cGreek\u201d government emphasized its support for the recent decision of cancelling the condition of obtaining a \u201cSchengen\u201d visa by Emirati citizens to enter \u201cEuropean Union\u201d countries, which supports the implementation of all agreed items of the \u201cMOU\u201d that connects the two countries with brotherly bonds, and embodies the meaning of scientific cooperation between them, and due to the fact that education is the backbone of the State, this agreement was signed to ensure the support of scientific research by the State under its wise leadership. On the other hand, the guest expressed his admiration of the level of development of higher education and scientific research in the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" His Excellency Sheikh \u201cHamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan\u201d, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, signed a memorandum of understanding to activate cooperation between UAE and \u201cGreece\u201d on (9\/2\/2014), in the field of higher education and scientific research. His EXcellency \u201cKonstantinos Arvanitopoulos\u201d, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, signed the \u201cMOU\u201d on behalf of \u201cGreece\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamdanmubarak.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}