ABSTRACT
Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development opened its doors to its first group of undergraduate students, in pharmacy, engineering, and business and economics. All faculties are supported by a Social Innovation Centre with the role to promote integral development that is to enhance integration between the humanist core and specialized sciences, as well as to promote curriculum and faculty development. Sekem builds provides a practical example of Islamic values in agriculture but also in building communities, developing humans and conducting economic value creation, an all-round integral polity so to speak. Sekem managed to inform public decision makers about the advantages of its agricultural approach with remarkable results. The development model of Sekem is holistic and rooted in sustainable agriculture. The cultural realm is nurtured and cultivated by the Sekem Development Foundation (SDF). The intertwined natural and economic realms of activity within Sekem's group of companies begins on a practical level by healing the soil through the application of biodynamic farming methods.
