Valditara in Cairo: Let's train the technicians of the future with Egypt

Italy is strengthening its relations with Egypt in the training of highly specialised technicians and aims to extend its educational model to other African countries, primarily Tunisia and Algeria, in line with the Mattei Plan.

These are the first concrete results brought home by the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, who went on a visit to Cairo, where he met Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Education Minister Mohamed Abdel Latif, in the presence of the Ministers of Agriculture, Public Enterprises and Water Resources and Irrigation.

During the meeting, protocols were signed between the Egyptian authorities, 89 Applied Technology Schools and 5 Italian Its Academies in the fields of mechatronics and sustainable mobility, chemistry, textiles, health and agrifood. The signing follows the path started with the Memorandum signed by Minister Valditara in March 2024 and the Letters of Intent signed in February 2025. This step testifies to the excellent state of relations between Italy and Egypt and gives new impetus to the cooperation between the two countries in the field of technical training for the benefit of enterprises within the Mattei Plan.

Prime Minister Madbouly reiterated that technical education is the basis of a knowledge-based economy, emphasising the excellence of the Italian model, and pointed out that this result marks only the beginning of an even broader collaboration. Minister Latif emphasised that these agreements represent bridges of cultural and economic cooperation, based on the exchange of experiences, the updating of curricula and the qualification of technical courses according to the highest international standards that the Italian educational model guarantees.

"This is a decisive step to strengthen educational cooperation between Italy and Egypt. Investing in technical and vocational education means supporting economic and social development, focusing on pathways that are strongly integrated with the world of production, such as the 4+2 model,' Valditara said. 'We have also invested in Artificial Intelligence and we intend to create a working group dedicated to good practices and transversal skills.