Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, Benha University "BU" Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs; Prof. Tamer Samir, BU Vice-president for Education and Students' Affairs; and Prof. Reda Abdel Halim, the Dean of the Faculty of Law opened the 14th Annual Scientific Conference of the Faculty under the title of "Law and Egypt's Water Security towards a Comprehensive Vision to protect our Water Resources".
In his speech, El Gizawy conveyed a message of thanks and greetings from Prof. Gamal El Saeed, BU President to the Faculty of Law on the occasion of its celebration of the Silver Jubilee and the 25th anniversary of its establishment. He said also that the Conference is in line with the National Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation as well as Egypt's Vision 2030 for sustainable development, as the state places at the forefront of its priorities the water issue, rationalization and raising the efficiency of its use through several axes.
In the same context, Samir expressed his happiness for the presence between a constellation of jurists and judicial bodies, congratulating the Faculty of Law on the occasion of its celebration of the Silver Jubilee.
Samir added that the water is one of the most important issues that concern the public opinion in Egypt, pointing out that the State is keen to find solutions and alternatives to face the water shortage through the establishment of seawater desalination plants and the development of irrigation methods as well as other matters related to water resources in Egypt.

The Sector of Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs, Benha University announced that the Science and Technology Development Fund "STDF" has opened the applying for financed grants in several fields:
1- Post Graduate Support Grant for post graduate studies researchers - Master's degree (MSc) and Doctorate degree (PhD) students. The total budget should not exceed: - 250,000 L.E for Master students
- 350,000 L.E. for Doctorate students.
2- Second COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Call, this Call is a continuation of the researches launched by STDF last March by the onset of the pandemic. The budget will be:
- 3,000,000 LE for Regular project
- 10,000,000 LE for Multi Center Project
- 30,000,000 LE for Mega project.
The University Sector of Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs invites all faculty members for applying before the announced deadlines through the following link:
http://stdf.eg:8080/web/grants/open
Deadline to apply for Post Graduate Support Grant is November25, 2020 and for Second COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Call is December01, 2020.

The E-learning Center, Benha University has launched, under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed - the University President, the platform of Distance Learning Management System "LMS" in the frame of the University's policy for digital transformation, raising and improving the technological capabilities of teaching and learning processes.
Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, the University Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs said that the LMS works on Moodle providing learning opportunity for all the University students in an appropriate educational environment which enabling all students to communicate with the teaching staff applying the hybrid education system, which depends on the combination of face-to-face and distance learning.
El Gizawy added that the students and teaching staff can visit LMS platform throughout the following link:
https://elearning.bu.edu.eg
it is worth mention that the students and teaching staff can get their accounts to enter the platform by contacting the technological services units at the faculties or the coordinators of e-learning at the scientific departments.

Major General Abdel Hamid El Hagan, Qalyoubia Governor and Prof. Gamal El Saeed, Benha University President received Prof. Ashraf Sobhy, the Minister of Youth and Sports in the presence of Prof. Osama Salah, the Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education; the Faculty Vice-deans; Mr. Refaat Nan, the University Assistant Secretary General for Administrative Affairs; and the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports at Qalyoubia.
The meeting came on the sidelines of PhD discussion presented by Researcher/ Mohamed Fawzy from the Faculty of Physical Education, Benha University under the title of " A proposed strategy for developing sports activities programs for specialized faculties at the Ministry of Youth and Sports".

The participants in "Law and Egypt's Water Security" Conference; which held under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed - Benha University "BU" President and opened by Prof. Nasser El Gizawy - BU Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs, Prof. Tamer Samir - BU Vice-president for Education and Students' Affairs, and Prof. Reda Abdel Halim - the Dean of the Faculty of Law; confirmed the Egyptian rights in Nile historically and legally.
The participants in the Conference also recommended the necessity of forming an Egyptian Supreme Council for Water Security from water and irrigation experts known for their scientific and practical competence and granting them all legal powers to manage the water file internally and externally.

In the frame of Benha University's "BU" policy to open up to local, regional and international universities for maximizing the partnership opportunities between them, BU International Relations Office has organized a webinar with the American University in Cairo "AUC" under the auspices of Prof. Gamal El Saeed - BU President.
The participants in the webinar from BU are: Prof. Nasser El Gizawy, BU Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs; Prof. Hala Zayed, the Dean of the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence; Prof. Mahran El Naggar, the Director of the International Relations Office; and Prof. Abdel Samiee Halawa, from the Faculty of Medicine.
The participants in the webinar from AUC are: Prof Ehab Abdel Rahaman, the AUC Vice-president; Prof. Alaa Idrees, the Deputy Assistant for Scientific Research; Prof. George Marqes, the Dean of Students' Affairs; and Prof. Ahmed Abdel Latif.
El Gizawy said that the webinar discussed the ways of cooperation between BU and AUC at the level of academic programs, scientific research, innovation and creativity, in order to maximize the use of the financial and human potentials of the both universities.
In the same context, AUC invited some professors with students from BU to visit it to identify the opportunities available in it, the nature of study and the various fields of scientific research

Prof. Gamal El Saeed, Benha University President congratulated Prof. Ahmed Taher Saleh Azar, the Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence for selecting him among the World's Top 2% of Scientists and ranked 623 from 215,114 scientists in the field of artificial intelligence.
The ranking list has been published by Stanford University in PLOS Journal based on Scopus:https://esee.ly/vxpU2T
It is worth mentioning that Prof. Ahmed Taher Saleh Azar has got recently "Shoman Arab Researchers Award 2020" on the subject of machine learning (computers) and major analytical data.

Prof. Dr. Nasser El Gizawy, Benha University Vice-president for Post Graduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs said that Prof. Dr. Gamal El Saeed, the University President has approved to open the applying for the new course of International Publication and Citations Rewards, July 2020 which will be started from Tuesday, August 04, 2020 for one month He added that the papers accepted in this course are those that were published during the years 2019 and 2020, and have not been submitted during the previous courses and the number of citations will be calculated based on the last 5 years, according to the declared calculations of faculty member on Google Scholar; referring that anyone who has a Google Scholar account for paper that does not belong to him or who submitted research previously paid financial rewards for it in previous courses, will be blocked from the rewards of the University 's programs for researches support.

Prof. Dr. Nasser El Gizawy, Benha University Vice-president for Post Graduate Studies and Researches' Affairs said that the University got 14 Followships and 5 scholarships in addition to one joint supervision mission within the eighth 5 years plan of missions 2017-2022 by the competitive system between the applicants, adding that the delegation countries varied between America, Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy, confirming that scholarships included faculty members and researchers from the faculties of veterinary medicine, science, agriculture, arts, engineering in Benha, and commerce.

Prof. Dr. Hussien Almaghrabi, Benha University Vice-president for Education and Students` Affairs has inspected the conduct of exams 2019/2020 at the Faculty of Specific Education and the Health Technical Institute. During his tour, Almaghrabi has reassured for the conduct of exams and the precautionary measures to limit the spread of novel Corona Virus "Covid-19