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Japanese University of Science and Technology in Borg El Arab in Alexandria launched a professional diploma in food quality
and safety.

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management to enable you to work in this competitive market.

The food and beverage industries are considered to be one of the most promising and fastest growing industries in the world.
The Egyptian market annually consumes processed food products worth of $ 45 billion, and the number of companies
operating in the food industries sector is estimated to be about 5,200 companies. The estimates indicate that the food sector
industry in Egypt represents %4.7 of the GDP, and is growing at a compound annual rate of about %15.

Therefore, the Government has established the National Food Safety Authority to be responsible for ensuring that the food
produced, processed, distributed or traded in the local market or the international export market achieves the highest Safety
and health standards. That’s why, companies and factories began to develop and create qualified human cadres to work

Learning Outcomes
within the operations and activities of the food chain, manufacturing and handling, and for this purpose the Egyptian
Japanese University of Science and Technology in Borg El Arab in Alexandria launched a professional diploma in food quality
and safety.
• Demonstrate how to conduct food composition and analysis tests

Overview
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 About E-JUST
About
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) is a research-oriented university with the
determination to improve the academic environment and become a benchmark for Egyptian and African
countries in higher education. The university was established in May of 2009 based on a bilateral agree-

E-JUST
ment between the Egyptian and Japanese governments. In 2010, it accepted the first batch of graduate
students and started the excellence journey.

In September 2017, E-JUST reached another milestone when it inaugurated the Faculty of International
Business and Humanities (FIBH). It was also in that year that the university began accepting high school
students inUniversity
Egypt-Japan both theofFaculty
Scienceof
andEngineering and theisFaculty
Technology (E-JUST) of International Business.
a research
university with an ambition to develop an academic environment and become
aThe partnership
benchmark for the between
Egyptian andboth governments
African is extremely
countries in education. strong
E-JUST was to ensure the ease of the educational
first established as a bilateral agreement project between the Egyptian and
journey of students. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) fully supports E-JUST by sending
Japanese governments
their experts in May
to assist and2009 and in
guide later
thein 2010 it was ready
technical to accept
transfer and its
management of the university. JICA also
first batch of students and make the dream a reality.
sends academic experts from the Japanese Cooperating Universities (JCU) to support in teaching, joint

Career
research and co-supervising the graduate students. In addition, JICA provides state-of-the-art equipment
Health
and Precautions
tools for educational and research purposes. As for the Egyptian government, it fully supports the

Career
university’s needs from capital to operating expenses.

Opportunities
The Japanese University is committed to providing a high-quality experience

Opportunities
All all
for decisions thatworking
students and governdiligently
the university
to reduceare done through
the impact its of
of the spread Board of Trustees (BoT) members, which is
comprised
Covid-19 of 20(Covid-19),
infection prominent figures
as the fromguarantees
university Egypt and thatJapan.
all its The Egyptian side includes a representative of
the Ministry
employees, of Foreign
whether Affairs,
academic a representative
or administrative, of the Ministry
and its students follow allof International Cooperation, and a repre-
necessary precautionary measures recommended by the World Health
sentative of the Ministry of Higher Education. Whereas the Japanese side includes the Senior Vice Presi-
Organization
dent of JICA, and the Egyptian Ministry
a representative of Health.
of the The diploma
Ministry gives students
of Education, instruction
Culture, andScience
Sports, training focused on the quality
and Technology, and a
and safety of food to develop food technology skills and be able to find an
representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and
The the presidents of five leading
trainingJapanese
focused onuniversities.
entrydiploma
level jobgives students
in the instruction
food processing and
sector. the quality
and safety of food to develop food technology skills and be able to find an
Careers are available in the sectors of research & development, production,
entry level job in the food processing sector.
quality control, quality assurance, technical services, and plant sanitation,
Careers are available in the sectors of research & development, production,
among others.
quality control, quality assurance, technical services, and plant sanitation,
among others.

Instructors
Instructors
The instructors of this diploma will be both academics and industry expertise:
Program Director: Prof. Ahmed Abd Elmawgood
The instructors
-E-JUST of this
professors fromdiploma will be
the Faculty ofboth academics
Engineering andand industry
Basic expertise:
and Applied
ahmed.mawgood@ejust.edu.eg
Sciences Institute,
-E-JUST professors
- Alexandria from the
Univ. (Faculty of Faculty of Engineering
Agriculture and Basic
and High Institute and Applied
of Public Health).
Sciences Institute,
- Industry expertise who will present case studies (real experience).
-- Alexandria Univ.Egyptian
Expertise from (FacultyFood
of Agriculture and High Institute of Public Health).
safety Authority.
- Industry expertise who will present case studies (real experience).
- Expertise from Egyptian Food safety Authority.

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P.O Box 179, New Borg El-Arab City
Alexandria
Postal CodeSecondary CampusEgypt
21934, Alexandria,
P.O. Box 179, New Borg El-Arab City
Postal Code 21934, Alexandria, Egypt
E-JUST Cairo Center

E-JUST Cairo
Concordia Center2111, 3rd Floor
Building
Concordia Building
Smart Village, 2111, 3rd Floor,
Giza, Egypt
Smart Village, Giza, Egypt

16448
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