During its meeting number (602) held on 19/1/2014 the Faculty of Pharmacy Council approved granting Pharmacist Shaheer Maher Gerges, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University a joint supervision mission to Australia for one year subject to renewal upon the nomination of Missions Department, Ministry of Higher Education.  The mission is part of the fifth year plan (2011/2012) of the sixth five-year plan (2007-2012). Currently, Pharmacist Shaheer  has a personal scholarship offered by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology to study in Belgium until July 13, 2014.