Cairo International Conference on
"Energy & Environment "
Hurghada, Egypt - March 15-18, 2009
A Joint Conference of
Cairo 11th International Conference on
Energy & Environment
AND
8th World Conference on
Solar Electricity
The Director of ISEET, Prof. Dr. Fuad Abulfotuh Founded and organized a series of international conferences held in the Middle East.
This series is sponsored by several local government and international institutions including the US department of Energy,
UNESCO, leading universities, and industrial organizations. The main objective of this series of conferences is technology transfer,
capacity building through education (Science, Engineering, Technical support of curriculum relevance),
and promotion of renewable technologies in the region. This series of conferences, each focusing on a different issue,
continues to be a forum for information dissemination, education, and technology transfer in the field of renewable energy technologies,
water resource management, energy efficiency, and environmental protection in the Middle East. The following is a list of these conferences:
- The first conference, titled “International Conference on Solar Electricity: Photovoltaics and Wind” was held in Cairo, Egypt on October 3-6, 1994.
- The second was also held in Cairo Egypt on April. 16-19, 1996 under the same title.
- The third conference titled “International Conference on Solar Electricity: Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Technologies” was jointly organized by the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and held in Sharjah, UAE on March 21-25, 1998. This was the first conference on solar energy in the gulf region.
- The fourth in this series added an additional focus on environmental protection. It was held in Alexandria Egypt, on November 8-11, 1999.
- The fifth conference was held in Cairo on March 11-14, 2002. The organization of this conference involves four key ministries in Egypt (ministry of electricity and energy, ministry of water resources and irrigation, ministry of military production, and ministry of environmental affairs) in addition to the distinguished sponsors representing industry, academia, and businesses.
- The six conference titled “ Energy for Sustainable development: technology Advances & Environmental Issues” was held in Cairo on December 6-9, 2004. The focus of this conference was sustainable development in view of advances in energy and environmental technologies.
- The Seventh conference of the series was held at Cairo Marriott on October 29 – November 1st 2007. Material sciences and technology development for sustainable energy were the emphasizes of this conference.