Annual SDG Report — 2023/24

Overview

In the 2023/24 academic year, Future University in Egypt advanced the Sustainable Development Goals across its six faculties, its campus and the communities around it. This general report brings together the University’s work on all seventeen goals for the year: the activities it held, the research its academics published, and the policies that underpin its commitments. A separate, detailed report for each goal is linked below.

Highlights across the goals

• Goal 1 — No Poverty: FUE continued its decade-long partnership with the Hayah Foundation for Sustainable Development, whose programmes — micro-credit for young entrepreneurs, adult-literacy classes, and medical and winter convoys — reached low-income communities across Greater Cairo, with University students and staff taking part in the convoys and outreach.
• Goal 3 — Good Health and Well-being: The FUE Dental Hospital, a full teaching hospital open to the public, continued to treat several hundred dental cases free of charge each day across its undergraduate and postgraduate clinics, giving the surrounding population access to diagnosis, fillings, extractions, prosthetics and oral-surgery care at no cost.
• Goal 4 — Quality Education: FUE took part in the international EduGate 2024 higher-education exhibition, presenting its faculties and programmes to prospective students and the public and advising school-leavers on university study and career pathways.
• Goal 5 — Gender Equality: Women continued to hold the University’s most senior academic posts during the year, including a Vice-President for Postgraduate Studies and Research and two faculty deanships, alongside a female-majority student body in several faculties.
• Goal 6 — Clean Water and Sanitation: The University ran its annual water-conservation awareness campaigns for students and staff, promoting careful water use across the campus and residences through signage, talks and student-led activities.
• Goal 7 — Affordable and Clean Energy: An energy-conservation programme covering air-conditioning, lighting and office equipment continued to reduce consumption across University buildings, supported by staff awareness and routine monitoring.
• Goal 8 — Decent Work and Economic Growth: In June 2023 the University concluded a cooperation protocol with the Syndicate of Commercial Professions covering postgraduate study, professional training and student internships, widening graduates’ routes into accredited commercial careers.
• Goal 9 — Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: The Faculty of Engineering & Technology maintained research and teaching collaborations with the University of Cincinnati and Missouri University of Science & Technology, and operated an Engineering Consultancy & Development centre that links academic expertise to real industrial projects.
• Goal 10 — Reduced Inequalities: The University’s Disability Services continued to provide ramps and lifts, reserved front-row seating, a disability-buddy companion scheme, extra examination time and assistive software, ensuring students with disabilities can study on an equal footing.
• Goal 11 — Sustainable Cities and Communities: FUE hosted the ROGE 2024 international conference on restructuring the global economy and promoting sustainability, convening academics and practitioners to debate sustainable economic development.
• Goal 12 — Responsible Consumption and Production: The University maintained sustainable-procurement practices that favour ethical and responsible suppliers, applying environmental and social criteria to its purchasing alongside cost.
• Goal 13 — Climate Action: The University continued its carbon-footprint improvement programme, mapping greenhouse-gas emissions from campus and residence electricity and gas use and from its transport fleet as the basis for targeted reductions.
• Goal 16 — Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: The University hosted its “Regional Challenges and Future Prospects” seminar with speakers from government and academia, providing an open, non-partisan forum for informed public debate on regional affairs.
• Goal 17 — Partnerships for the Goals: In 2024 FUE signed a memorandum of understanding with the Institute of Diplomatic Studies for joint training courses and workshops, combining academic and diplomatic expertise.

Research published in 2023/24

Across its six faculties and its Research Centre, Future University in Egypt published 399 Scopus-indexed research outputs in 2023/24 that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, attracting 10,200 citations. The strongest research contributions were to Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (215); Affordable and Clean Energy (182); Good Health and Well-being (70); Sustainable Cities and Communities (35); Quality Education (34). Among the most-cited works that year:

• Advancements in low-carbon concrete as a construction material for the sustainable built environment. Althoey, F. and 3 more (2023). Developments in the Built Environment · cited 282 times.
• A review of water electrolysis for green hydrogen generation considering PV/wind/hybrid/hydropower/geothermal/tidal and wave/biogas energy systems, economic analysis, and its application. Awad, M. and 9 more (2024). Alexandria Engineering Journal · cited 248 times.
• Optimizing energy Dynamics: A comprehensive analysis of hybrid energy storage systems integrating battery banks and supercapacitors. Fatih Guven, A. and 3 more (2024). Energy Conversion and Management · cited 215 times.
• Mitigating Uncertainty Problems of Renewable Energy Resources Through Efficient Integration of Hybrid Solar PV/Wind Systems Into Power Networks. Ahmed, M.M.R. and 9 more (2024). IEEE Access · cited 199 times.
• Effects of activation energy and chemical reaction on unsteady MHD dissipative Darcy–Forchheimer squeezed flow of Casson fluid over horizontal channel. Li, S. and 7 more (2023). Scientific Reports · cited 195 times.

Reports by goal

Open any goal for its full report for 2023/24 — its commitment, how the University delivers it, the year’s activities and research, and the supporting policies.

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