Information about the partnership
Egypt offers German SMEs significant potential for collaboration in climate protection, renewable energy, engineering, Food processing, Building Materials and healthcare. Partnering in Business with Germany brings together Egyptian companies with internationalization potential and German companies seeking to enter the market. In Egypt, personal business relationships are crucial. With patience and care, German companies can gain access to a high-potential, growth-oriented market, particularly in nearshoring.
Focus Areas and Cooperation Potentials of Egypt
As the second largest economy in Africa, Egypt offers great potential for economic cooperation and investment. Its geographical location makes Egypt an important gateway to the Arab-speaking world and a bridge to the African and Arab economies. Issues with particular relevance for foreign trade and investment policy include climate action, renewable energy, waste management and healthcare. These are sectors where there is great potential for cooperation between German and Egyptian companies.
Business in Egypt – Opportunities for German Companies
Egypt is strategically positioned in global trade and, due to its market size, is well-positioned as the “Gateway to Africa” and the Arab Region according to the Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index 2022. It is gaining importance as a regional logistics hub, production, and distribution centre. Important sectors of the manufacturing industry include food, textiles, and building materials. Egyptian agriculture is vital for employment in the country. The export of several agricultural products is growing, but water scarcity requires water-efficient varieties, efficient irrigation, and the use of treated wastewater. This opens up potential for sustainable approaches in green technology, also for German companies.
Industry Focus and Participant Profiles
Partnering in Business with Germany is open to executives from all sectors. In the last few years, a large number of managers from Egypt working in the fields of mechanical engineering, construction and the food industry have taken part in the programme. Other priority issues include automation, electronics, Industrie 4.0, renewable energy (particularly hydrogen production) and healthcare. There is also demand in the fields of the textile industry, the circular economy and water management.
Egypt’s alumni organisation – the Egyptian Association for Industry and Development (EGYAID) – provides support and networking opportunities with German companies for former Egyptian participants of the programme. It is working closely with the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
‘We now have a reliable partner for orders in Africa.’
German-Egyptian business cooperation in the construction industry: Siddharth Sharma from German mechanical engineering company Loesche and Ahmed Fathelbab, managing director of Egyptian engineering company El-Fateh, which specialises in steel structures, are promoting a sustainable construction industry in Africa.
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Egypt: steering committee underlines significance of German-Egyptian cooperation – focus on new innovative sectors
Representatives of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) met in Cairo on 9 and 10 September 2025 for a networking event and a session of the steering committee of the Partnering in Business with Germany programme. The focus was on the continuation of the successful business initiation programme for SMEs and its priorities for the coming years.
Conferences on cooperation with Africa in Kiel and Hanover
In June 2025, the Wirtschaftsförderung und Technologietransfer Schleswig-Holstein (WTSH), the chambers of commerce in northern Germany and the Africa Business Network (GTAI) hosted networking events for local SMEs in Kiel and Hanover. Partnering in Business with Germany took the opportunity to make the programme better known in this region.
Meeting of Partners in the Africa Business Network: A Focus on North Africa
The 20th Meeting of Partners in the Africa Business Network took place at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action on 19 March. The network is a Federal Government initiative to support German SMEs that wish to develop and expand their business in Africa. The Partnering in Business with Germany (PG) programme is one of the network partners that promote cooperation between Germany and Africa.
Partnering in Business with Germany at BIOFACH 2025: successful networking for German SMEs
With 35,000 visitors from 140 countries and more than 2,000 exhibitors, BIOFACH is the world’s leading trade fair for organic food and sustainable agriculture. It is thus an ideal platform to present the services offered by the foreign trade and investment promotion instrument Partnering in Business with Germany (PG) to German and international companies and foster the networking with German SMEs in a targeted manner.
‘We now have a reliable partner for orders in Africa.’
German-Egyptian business cooperation in the construction industry: Siddharth Sharma from German mechanical engineering company Loesche and Ahmed Fathelbab, managing director of Egyptian engineering company El-Fateh, which specialises in steel structures, are promoting a sustainable construction industry in Africa.
