FAQs

Before submitting your question, please check the below frequently asked questions and if you don’t find your question be addressed, we will be happy to answer your inquiry via this form.

 

1- I am Studying in Faculty of Engineering, am I still eligible to apply?
If you are in a department related to electronics fabrications, waves propagations, and communications, plasma school might be useful for you otherwise we felt sorry for not considering your application.

2-  I am still in 1st or 2nd-year student in Faculty of science am I still eligible?
Plasma requires a background in electricity, magnetism, calculus, and intro to differential equations and statistical physics. These aren’t being taught in all universities on the 1st and 2nd level. So the school content might be hard to follow but we welcome your application if you show a strong motivation.

3- I had attended the Plas@Port-Said summer school before, am I eligible?
Unfortunately,  you can’t receive two scholarships for attendance to give other students the opportunity. But, if you are highly motivated you can apply and in case of acceptance, you can come as a self-pay student.

4- I had submitted my application but didn’t receive the confirmation email?
Please check your email spam, the confirmation email subject is 4thPSSP2019-Application Notification  so you can use it to search your inbox. If it doesn’t exist, this means you have wrote a wrong email address or you haven’t submitted the application and kindly report the problem via the form at the top.

5- My university doesn’t offer an online transcript, what should I do?
You can issue it from the student’s affairs office in your faculty, scan it and send it.

6- What should I write in the motivation letter?
You can try to answer this questions briefly:
What are your scientific backgrounds related to the pre-request for the school and the school content?
Why you are interested in this school content on both scientific and network creation manners?
What is the direct and indirect influence on your future career?

7- Who should write for me the recommendation letter?
Any staff member in your faculty who was your lecturer in a course or a supervisor can recommend you. He/she can be a demonstrator, lecturer, assistant professor or full professor. The letter should contains affiliation, phone number and the email of the reference.

8- What is the evaluation criteria?
Motivation letter:  50%
Recommendation letter: 30%
You grade – GPA:  20%

9- Will all applicants receive emails for acceptance and rejections?
Yes, all applicants will receive notifications email whether they accepted or rejected.

10- How can I confirm my attendance in case of acceptance?
You will receive an email asking you to transfer 200 EGP via Vodafone cash or Egyptian Post within 7 days after receiving the acceptance email. If you don’t attend without prior notification before 08.02.2019 you won’t be refunded.

11- When can I cancel my attendance and refund the confirmation money amount? 
If you cancel your confirmation two weeks before the starting day you can be fully refunded – the transfer fees.

12- Can I pay and attend the school without passing the evaluation criteria?  
Unfortunately no, we are selecting 50 students who will score the highest based on the evaluation criteria, the first 30 will receive a full scholarship and the others will be in a waiting list for self-pay attendance and in case of one of the selected student can’t attend.

13- I am interested only in the last day conference, what should I do?
Just go directly to fill out the application and you will have questions regarding this and answer them depend on your needs.