Goethe-Institut Alexandria

1. The Goethe-Institute e.V. is the official cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, but an independent body. It is a registered association (in US-terms: membership corporation) and a non-profit-organisation (§ 2 of the statute of the Goethe-Institut e.V.) headquartered in Munich/Germany and with branches in 130 countries. The “Articles of Association” can be found here: http://www.goethe.de/uun/auz/rch/enindex.htm The Goethe-Institut has 128 branch offices in 79 countries and 16 branch offices in Germany. Our branch office in Cairo/Alexandria (with a dialogue point in Assyut) is based on the cultural agreement between Egypt and Germany. 2. project-related budget, varies from year to year 3. public funding, third-party funds, sponsoring, own resources 4. projects in all fields of culture representing the contemporary cultural production in Germany, co-operations with local artists in all fields; teaching of German language and improvement of German language teaching; media and information department. 5. Egyptian and foreign cultural institutions and associations