Minia University

Minia University is rich in history, it is known with its famous faculties and University buildings. It was separated from Assuit University by virtue of Republican Decree No. (93) Of 1976. The University currently includes 19 faculties in addition to the Higher Institute of Nursing. Four of these faculties located off campus; faculties of Arts, Dentistry, Engineering and Veterinary Medicine. The other faculties located on campus; Faculties of Education, Agriculture, Science, Dar Al-Uloum, Medicine, Fine Arts, Tourism & Hotels, Physical Education, Alsun, Nursing, Pharmacy, Specific Education, Computer & IT Science and Arts of Education.

Faculty of science is seeking to graduate distinguished cadres and sophisticated scientific research in thebasic sciences and its applications to serve the community, develop the environment and keep pace with the scientific progress.Prepare specialized human cadres in the different fields of basic science and providing them with knowledge and basic skills to be able to compete in the labor market, upgrading the level of the scientific research which meets the community needs and participating in the environmental development.

The major goal of the consortia is to provide interactive information services to the Egyptian scholars and students. All the consortia services are electronically available through the EULC portal. Accessing information resources and services through one unified portal would help the Egyptian universities’ libraries to eliminate the overlap and duplication of resources and efforts, which would facilitate optimum methods for effectively and efficiently using the allocated resources.

Minia University president has assured that Minia University always keen to highlight on the current issues at the Arab and Egyptian community where the University studing and addressing this issues to provide appropriate solutions for theses problems can be applied on the reality so this conference came to improve the mental image and developing the industry of tourism at the tow regions of the ( Arab and Middle East ) and create innovative strategies to pass the tourism crisis of theses tow regions as a result for the recent events from revolutions and political and security disturbances led to significant decline in the number of tourists and the tourism development level.

The University seeks to provide the necessary elements of continuous development to keep abreast of the rapid scientific and technological developments and improve the university performance. The University works to achieve its mission through:

• Preparing specialized technical cadres in various fields that meet the needs of the society and are required by the areas of comprehensive development.
• And provide qualified personnel in the new disciplines required by the labor market.
• Conduct scientific and applied researches and studies related to the problems of society and development programs.
• Emphasizing noble human values, deepening the value of national loyalty and preserving the original principles of society.
• Cultural and scientific ties between the university and scientific institutions and Arab and international universities and their documentation.
• Continuous development of study programs and graduate programs to cope with scientific and technological progress.