Under the auspices of Dr. Mohamed Othman Elkhosht, President of Cairo University, The University participates in the Global Initiative for Education and Youth Empowerment in the field of combating corruption “Grace Initiative”, which is an initiative adopted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Chaired by Dr. Ghada Wali, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, implementing it within a number of Egyptian universities in cooperation with the Administrative Control Authority and under the guidance of the Egyptian political leadership. The initiative`s activities are scheduled to continue until July 2023.
Dr. Mohamed Al-Khosht explained that Cairo University has developed a plan to implement the activities of the Grace initiative in conjunction with the celebration of the International Anti-Corruption Day during the period from 7-15 December 2022, stressing that the culture of rejecting corruption needs further strengthening within universities, by integrating the fight against corruption in education in order for young people to become integrity leaders in the future.
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From his side, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Saeed, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science and coordinator of the Ministry of Higher Education in the initiative, said that the plan of activities set by the university to participate in the initiative includes organizing an awareness program for students about the university student charter and the national anti-corruption strategy on Wednesday, December 7, and a sports marathon for students on Friday December 9, and an awareness program for the university`s administrative staff on governance, anti-corruption and a code of professional conduct, in addition to the university organizing an art exhibition of drawings that express the state`s efforts to combat corruption on Monday, December 12, and organizing a cultural competition for students that includes questions related to combating corruption and mechanisms to confront it on Tuesday 13 December. In addition, an awareness day will be organized for faculty members and the supporting staff on governance and anti-corruption in university institutions on Wednesday, December 14, and an artistic competition will be launched to design the best anti-corruption logo and poster. .

It is worth noting that Cairo University, has significant contributions to the anti-corruption file in cooperation with the Administrative Control Authority in the last five years, most notably the signing of a cooperation protocol between Major General Amr Adel, head of the Administrative Control Authority, and Dr. Mohamed El-Khosht, President of Cairo University, to create an academic master’s program in governance and combating Corruption between the public administration departments of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science and the National Anti-Corruption Academy of the Administrative Control Authority, and Cairo University was one of the first Egyptian universities and institutions to carry out financial inclusion, which contributed to achieving transparency and reducing corruption, and prepared an ethical charter for university professions at the highest level to govern the professional rules for members, in addition to the Student Ethics Charter in cooperation with the Administrative Control Authority, which was approved by the Supreme Council of Universities and circulated to Egyptian universities. .

The university also organized a simulation model for the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, which is the first simulation model of Its kind in the Middle East simulates the reality of the conference of the states Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption.