The 40 student teams which represent 25 public and private universities continue their participation in activities of the "Smart Cities Hackathon", which is held at Benha University.
Students are working on implementing prototypes of their innovative solutions for the ten tracks identified within the Hackathon events which includes; Smart buildings, smart facilities, smart parks, smart transportation-traffics, smart hospitals, smart recycling, smart monitoring, smart energy, smart management, smart schools and universities. It is noteworthy that the Hackathon activities are going to be held in cooperation between the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Amazon Web Services and under the auspices of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the period from 2432022 to 2632022. It is worth mentioning that the winning teams in the Hackathon are going to receive financial prizes totaling 100,000 Egyptian pounds that provided by Benha University. In addition to getting valuable prizes

Benha University is pleased to announce that ElSewedy Digital is now a sponsor of the Smart Cities Hackathon and is giving away £100k EGP of cash prizes for the winners (in addition to the £100k EGP from Benha University) distributed as follows:

ElSewedy Digital, a subsidiary of ElSewedy Electric, ElSewedy Digital offers end-to-end solutions to customers through an array of companies and business units with a proven track record in delivering turnkey projects in a multitude of sectors including oil & gas, telecom, government, utility, financial institutions, and enterprises. We offer fully integrated solutions that enable digital transformation and ensure optimized business performance.
ElSewedy Digital portfolio encompasses a wide range of integrated solutions that include: telecom infrastructure, ICT infrastructure, Data centers, IOT and smart solutions, light current systems, government and enterprise software development, industrial and utility automation.

Prof. Dr.Gamal Sosa, Benha University President inspected Benha University hostels at Moshtohor to be sure from standard of submitted services for students, so he checked out the hostel= 's restaurants and food stores.
During his tour, Prof. Gamal Sosa was accompanied by Dr. Sayed Abd El Wanis, the general Supervisor of Benha University hostels, Dr. Awad Allah Soliman, the general manager of Benha University Hostels= '. For his part, Dr. Gamal Sosa stressed that Benha University housing sector is keen to work on the comfort of students, by providing a distinguished service of high quality to expatriate students residing in university cities, whether in food, housing, medical and social care