* Vision of the center 

Achieving global academic standards of excellence in training and human development for staff, employees, leaderships, and students at the local and regional levels while designing and implementing targeted training programs for FLDC that effectively contribute to the University's vision and the dissemination of a culture of university training. 

* Mission of the center 

The University FLDC seeks to achieve the mission of the University through creating integrated human development for staff, leaderships, and students and by applying the concepts and practices of continuous self-development of the professional capacities of the human resources of Suez University. This will be through training programs that meet the needs of local, regional, and international labor markets in a distinct manner and the needs of the beneficiaries to achieve quality standards of university education output, consistent with contemporary challenges at a highly competitive level. 

Objectives of the center

1- Permanent training to develop the academic and managerial skills of SU staff, their assistants, leaders, students, and local and regional universities. Moreover, qualifying human cadres capable of transmitting their experience to society members and preparing professional trainers in all training programs to achieve leadership and increase belonging to university, region, and homeland. 

2-Improving the quality of programs and training courses to get the international accreditation of the Unit. 

3-Developing trainees’ thinking skills (scientific, logical, creative...) and self-development of capacities to support the continuous development of university activities to achieve the strategic objectives of the University. 

4- Promoting a culture of lifelong self-learning and self-development, the importance of the training process, and contributing to consolidation the concept of investment in training. 

5-Developing students' capacities to meet the needs of labor markets and upgrading the managerial capacities and skills of university academic and management leaders to enable them to successfully implement the targeted change. 

Training fields and target groups

SU Faculty and Leadership Development Center (FLDC) Unit organizes a set of outstanding training programs which are developed regularly targeting the following groups:

1. 1. 1. Staff and associated staff
      2. SU Leadership
      3. Students (undergraduate - postgraduate)
      4. Other civil society groups

This will be through 5 different main pathways containing the following:

First: Academic training:

The unit presents five training meritocracies aimed at developing teaching abilities and leadership skills for staff, associated staff, and post-graduate students. It includes the following fields

• 1. The main training fields include two training meritocracies. They are:
• Teaching & Education Systems
• Scientific Research.
  
  This field is targeting the staff members of higher education institutions, who are interested in the education quality, as well as academic and administrative leaders of these institutions. Thus, obtaining three basic training courses (from a total of six courses) is a prerequisite for the promotion of staff and their associates to a higher level.

1. 2. Optional training fields include two training meritocracies. They are:

• • Management & Leadership
  • Group Communication &Interaction

This field is targeting the academic leaders: heads of scientific departments, deans of faculties, their under-secretaries, university presidents and vices, as well as administrative leaders: directors of administration, directors of general, secretaries of the faculties, secretaries of general and assistants, as well as managers and under-secretaries of technological faculties and higher institutes, beside the staff of institutions of higher education, who are interested in the quality of education. So, obtaining up to three optional training courses (out of a total of six courses) is a prerequisite for the promotion of faculty members and their associates.

1. 3. Post-graduate students’ training fields include just one training meritocraciesThis field is targeting university postgraduate students. Therefore, three postgraduate courses are a prerequisite for the award of a doctoral degree. Two postgraduate courses are a prerequisite for the award of a master's degree.

Second: Skills development:
This course includes a targeted set of training programs aimed at developing skills for different groups to prepare for the labor market. These programs target all university and civil society groups.
Third: qualifying a staff member:
The unit also organizes a course for the preparation of university staff on general and specific teaching assets by article 59 of the Executive Regulation of the Law on the Organization of Universities, which targets teaching assistants and assistant lecturers at the level of SU and the Egyptian universities.
Fourth: Training of Trainers (TOT)
This course includes a targeted set of training programs that aims to qualify several professional trainers and these programs target all different categories.
Fifth: other programs according to the need of the trainees
This course includes a targeted set of training programs according to the need of the trainees.

http://updc.suezuni.edu.eg/