Today on Tuesday 7^th June 2022, Prof. Ashraf Abdel-Basset, President of Mansoura University announced the launch of the digital platform “Maarf- Mansoura University’’, entitled “Maarf Platform is a Gate for a Better Future”. The event was held at Communications and Information Technology Center (CITC), and the attendees were: Prof. Mohamed Abdel-Azeem, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. John Fayez, Deputy Director of CITC, and a number of experts and faculty teaching staff.

 Prof. Ashraf Abdel-Basset confirmed that the platform “Maarf- Mansoura University’’ is the first platform to be launched by an Egyptian public university. Besides, it offers a distinguished content which highlights the uniqueness of Mansoura university, due to the exerted efforts by its exceptional teamwork. Further, he added that ‘’Maarf’’ platform is a gate for a better future.

Prof. Sherief Keshk, Manager of CITC center noted that “Maarf’’ platform offers a special training content that covers various fields of sciences. The fields offered by the platform care for self-learning and offer free training content via internet, under the supervision of a number of professors and experts in different fields, and in collaboration with many private language centers such as: the French Cultural Council, the German House which is accredited by its partner, Goethe Institute,  Information technology Center, Digital Training Center, English Language Center for Specific Purposes at the Faculty of Education, University Center for Career Development , Services Center for People with Disabilities, and the Center of Financial and Banking Studies at the Faculty of Commerce.

Prof. John Fayez, Deputy Director of CITC center added that “Maarf’’ platform is an educational one, offered by Mansoura university and offers training courses with high quality. The offered content was produced by a special team and was filmed inside the e-learning studio that was prepared to produce an electronic content with high quality, and serves the youths in different fields such as, literal and educational contents, information technology and digital transformation. Besides, the platform aims to enrich the Arabic content and offers it for a wide group of learners to provide them with the newest and latest information.

The platform’s fields aim to enhance the computer skills of youth and digital literacy through a variety of lectures that aimed at training in the basics of computer use, as well as teaching different foreign languages ​​for those wishing to master a variety of languages ​​in order to enrich the youth and support the labor market with a group of lectures dealing with various commercial and engineering topics. Further, the platform launches a series of medical lectures by a group of medical professors at the Faculty of Medicine and specialized centers at Mansoura University to raise awareness of some chronic diseases and how to prevent them. Besides, the platform offers some specialized lectures to deal with newborns and children and take care of their physical, psychological and educational health in their early formative years, through a set of advice and recommendations of experts with the launch of a series of lectures aimed at training in some different crafts and handicrafts such as, sewing and crochet for those wishing to start their own projects. The content of this platform is an important reference for each family member with all his/her interests.

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