The ceremony was attended by Tarek Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education; Ambassador Designate of Japan to Egypt, Oka Hiroshi; Hany Helal, former Minister of Higher Education and the Secretary General of EJEP Steering Committee; Imoto Sachiko, JICA Senior Vice President; Nevine Hamouda, Advisor to the Minister for Strategic Relations; Omura Yoshifumi, Chief Representative of JICA Egypt office; and Isam Hamza, Director of Liberal Arts and Culture Centre (LACC), on behalf of Ahmed ElGohary, President of Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)