Higher Education Minister Ashraf Shihi is planned to visit on Saturday the City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications in Borg El-Arab of Alexandria to inspect the investment zone.

The minister is expected to lay the foundation of a number of new establishments.

He will also preside over the meeting of the city’s board of directors in which a number of experts, researchers and heads of research centers and institutes will attend the meeting.

Earlier, 135 feddans were allocated to establish the first phase of the investment zone at a cost of 14 million pounds.

Source: MENA