AASTMT demonstrates a strong commitment to embedding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across its academic and extracurricular programs, ensuring their relevance and accessibility to all students. The university integrates SDG-focused education into its curriculum, making it applicable to diverse disciplines and mandatory for every student. This approach guarantees that all students, regardless of their field of study, are equipped with the knowledge and skills to address global challenges and contribute to sustainable development. Through a combination of interdisciplinary courses, experiential learning, and community engagement, AASTMT fosters a comprehensive understanding of the SDGs and empowers students to apply these principles in real-world contexts, cultivating socially responsible and environmentally conscious leaders.
Demonstrating Commitment to Sustainable Education through Innovative Research Projects at AASTMT
AASTMT’s commitment to integrating sustainability into education is exemplified by its innovative research initiatives, which tackle real-world challenges through advanced methodologies. As a leading institution in the Arab region, AASTMT plays a pivotal role in driving impactful research that addresses critical environmental, social, and economic issues while aligning with global and regional development agendas.
The “Innovative Photovoltaics Envelopes for Adaptive Energy and Comfort Management of Harsh Climate Areas in Upper Egypt” project exemplifies this commitment by addressing the urgent need for energy-efficient building solutions in challenging climates, contributing to the global vision of nearly zero-energy buildings. Similarly, the “Improved Recast of Climatic Changes and its Socioeconomic Implications Along the Northern Coastal Zone of Egypt” project demonstrates AASTMT’s leadership in leveraging cutting-edge technologies like satellite data and open-source modeling to map and mitigate the impacts of climate change in one of Egypt's most vital regions. These initiatives underscore AASTMT’s dedication to fostering sustainable development, advancing research excellence, and empowering communities to adapt to future challenges. By addressing both local and global sustainability priorities, AASTMT reaffirms its role as a cornerstone of innovation and education in the Arab region.
AASTMT Achieves ZEvA Accreditation in 2022: A Step Toward Sustainable Education
In 2022, AASTMT achieved ZEvA accreditation, a prestigious recognition of its commitment to academic excellence and alignment with global education standards. This accreditation reflects the academy’s dedication to integrating sustainability principles into its curriculum, fostering interdisciplinary learning that equips students to address complex global challenges.
The ZEvA process emphasized AASTMT’s efforts to embed social responsibility, critical thinking, and environmental awareness across its programs. By ensuring that sustainability concepts are integrated throughout its educational framework, AASTMT reinforces its role in preparing students to contribute effectively to sustainable development across industries and communities.
Reception of the Academy`s President to celebrate the college`s ZEvA accreditation
AI for Sustainability: Advancing Sustainability Education and Innovation for AASTMT's Commitment to the UN SDGs
Within the framework of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)'s continuous efforts to explore future prospects and its commitment to serving Arab countries in achieving their national goals as a specialized organization of the League of Arab States (LAS), AASTMT organized the fourth meeting of the Arab Artificial Intelligence Working Group from June 7 to 8, 2023, at its Alamein Campus. The event, attended by H.E. Prof. Dr. Ismail Abdel Ghafar Ismail Farag, AASTMT President, highlighted the role of artificial intelligence in addressing sustainability challenges across Arab nations. Moreover, by June 11, 2023, AASTMT students presented a graduation project focused on green hydrogen production through environmentally friendly methods, showcasing their dedication to integrating sustainable development concepts into their academic work. These efforts reflect AASTMT’s commitment to specific courses and projects that address sustainability and align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Mapping AASTMT courses with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is central to the academy’s strategy for aligning its curriculum with global sustainability objectives. This initiative ensures students across all disciplines are educated on sustainability principles, empowering them to address global challenges. AASTMT enhances its curriculum with electives such as Communication Skills, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Global Business, and Ethics and Governance of AI. These courses focus on ethical leadership, innovative thinking, and global strategies, equipping students with diverse skills to tackle sustainability challenges.
Through this integration, AASTMT embeds SDG principles across its educational framework, preparing graduates to contribute meaningfully to sustainable development on a global scale.
Mapping AASTMT courses with the UN SDGs
In 2023, AASTMT actively participated in COP 28, reaffirming its dedication to global climate action and sustainability. This engagement provided a valuable platform to incorporate practical insights from international climate discussions into AASTMT’s academic and research initiatives. By integrating these insights into its educational framework, the institution ensures that sustainability education remains relevant and applicable to all students, regardless of their discipline. Through its involvement in COP 28, AASTMT exposed students and faculty to the latest developments in sustainable development and climate resilience, fostering a deeper understanding of global challenges. By bridging theoretical learning with tangible climate action, AASTMT cultivates an environment where students and faculty are empowered to explore innovative solutions to pressing environmental challenges, reinforcing its enduring dedication to fostering impactful and forward-thinking education.
TouMali Initiative on Sustainability in Maritime Transport
In 2022, AASTMT spearheaded the TouMali initiative, emphasizing the integration of sustainability principles into the maritime transport sector. By collaborating with local and international partners, the initiative facilitated in-depth discussions on embedding SDG-focused education into maritime logistics and transport programs. This effort highlighted AASTMT’s leadership in advancing sustainability through innovative approaches to education and its dedication to making sustainability concepts relevant and applicable across disciplines.
The initiative’s collaborative framework provided opportunities to connect academic knowledge with real-world sustainability challenges, particularly in maritime logistics. Through such efforts, AASTMT ensures that SDG principles are integrated across its curriculum, fostering a learning environment that equips all students, regardless of their specialization, with the skills and insights needed to tackle global environmental challenges. This initiative exemplifies AASTMT's unwavering commitment to meaningful education that prepares future professionals to contribute to sustainable development on both local and global scales.
In June 2023, AASTMT organized Environment Day, an event dedicated to raising awareness about environmental sustainability among both students and faculty. This initiative aimed to spark dialogue and inspire action on climate issues, focusing on fostering a deeper understanding of how individuals and institutions can contribute to environmental sustainability. Through workshops, discussions, and hands-on activities, Environment Day provided participants with practical tools and knowledge to address pressing environmental challenges. The event emphasized the importance of collective responsibility in tackling climate change, further embedding environmental consciousness into the university’s educational framework.
This initiative reflects AASTMT’s commitment to providing meaningful education that promotes sustainability awareness across the entire academic community. Depending on the scale of public participation, it may have extended its impact beyond campus, engaging the broader community in the fight for a more sustainable future.
Environmental Day
Education for SDGs commitment to meaningful education (2021-2022)
The Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) is committed to fulfilling the requirements of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17, specifically regarding education for SDGs and meaningful education. AAST integrates sustainable development principles into its curriculum, fosters innovation and critical thinking, and collaborates with stakeholders to enhance the quality and relevance of education. By doing so, AAST prepares students to become active contributors to sustainable development and equips them with the necessary knowledge and skills for addressing global challenges.
In pursuit of genuine commitment to the UN-SDGs, AASTMT has launched an initiative in 2020 that incorporates the 17 goals into all courses of all programs across all campuses. The outcome of mapping curricula to the 17 SDGs is a report that showcases the number of courses across all campuses that comply with each SDG.
Mapping AASTMT Courses with the UN SDGs on AASTMT webpage
At AASTMT Smart Village Campus Within the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) social responsibility, and as part of the National Sustainable Development Strategy "Egypt 2030", as well as AASTMT initiative to raise the environmental awareness at AASTMT Campuses under the umbrella of the Egyptian Ministry of Environment campaign to plastic use abatement, AASTMT held a workshop that entitled “Go Green” on Monday 10- 1- 2022, at AASTMT Smart Village Campus, under the patronage of H.E Prof. Dr. Ismail Abdel Ghafar Ismail Farag - AASTMT President, and with the participation of a group of AASTMT Officials, Academic Staff members and Students from different campuses.
https://aast.edu/en/news/news-details.php?language=1&view=1&unit_id=1&news_id=172931&event_type_id=1 Link on AASTMT Page
A symposium organized by the Department of Community Service and Environmental Affairs at the Institute of Productivity and Quality “Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation” presented by Colonel Dr. Mohamed Abdel Hamid Al-Bassa - Head of the Weather Conditions Branch, Marine Survey Division - Egyptian Naval Forces - on Saturday, April 9, 2022, at nine-thirty in the evening, local time. Cairo via Zoom
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation on the AASTMT webpage
Prof. Dr. Ismail Abdel Ghafar Ismail Farag – President of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) participated in the activities of the Fourth Edition of the Arab Week for Sustainable Development that was organized by the League of Arab States, the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in Egypt, the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Bank, during the period from 13 - 15 February 2022, under the theme "Together for Sustainable Recovery", as to probe ways of alleviating repercussions and negative impacts of coronavirus to help achieve sustainable development goals in Arab countries.
The Fourth Edition of the Arab Week for Sustainable Development on the AASTMT news page
