The workshop came as a result of the interest of His Excellency the Minister of Civil Aviation in cooperation with the university after his visit of the past 3 months, one of the results of which was the delivery of the "Radio Sound" device that had been previously delivered to the Meteorological Authority as a body affiliated with the ministry.

The working group were from the Faculties of Engineering, Art and Design and Computer Science and they visited the Ministry of Civil Aviation and several specialized companies, including EgyptAir, the Holding Company for Airports, Misr Ground Services and Misr for Complementary Industries. In addition to forming work teams corresponding to the university’s work group in the ministry to discuss more than 30 proposed ideas for future projects with officials in these companies and to discuss ways of cooperation as well.

This crystallized over the course of two meetings as the working groups were divided and all previous experiences with many ministries, authorities and companies were presented within the framework of the directives and recommendations of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to localize local technology.