On March 15, 2023, the minister of higher education and scientific research Mr. Kamel Baddari, received the USA Ambassador in Algeria, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Aubin, at the ministry headquarters.
The meeting discussed ways of strengthening and developing cooperation between higher education and scientific research, and technological development.
Mr. Baddari expressed Algeria’s willingness to strengthen the cooperation, by establishing a branch for the American University in Algeria, and intensifying relations and fruitful cooperation between the two parties. The minister also called for speeding up the signature of twinning agreements between Algerian and American University institutions, and encouraging the mobility and exchange of instructors, researchers and PHD students from both countries.
The USA ambassador affirmed that the American spaces which are available in some Algerian Universities are dedicated for English learning, in this regard, the minister called for expanding the activities of these spaces so that it covers the highest number of Algerian instructors.
The meeting also addressed setting up common programmes and research projects, and organizing high level scientific meetings between academics from both countries. Mr. Baddari stressed the need for broad participation in the upcoming seminar which will be organized at the University City of Oran next April.
In the context of the positive practices of the American expertise in the field of startups, the minister of higher education and scientific research expressed Algeria’s willingness to send missions of Algerian students to the American universities, in order to learn from the American Experience in the field of startups.