Cultural and Technical Relations
Tuesday، 24 November 2015 12:00 AM
The bilateral cultural relations are organized by a biennially renewed Executive Program for Cultural, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, which includes several fields of cooperation:
- Offering Egyptian scholarships to the Nepalese side in the field of higher education and exchanging professors.
- The Egyptian International Agriculture Centre annually offers five scholarships to Nepal to train the Nepalese agronomists.
- Al-Azhar Al-Sharif offers 12 scholarships to the Muslim Nepalese students, in addition to five scholarships to the Nepalese Imams who participate in the Imams and preachers course at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif. The Egyptian Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) also offers financial assistances to a number of Islamic schools, mosques and centres to serve the Muslim Community in Nepal.