Education City
Is being developed by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a non-profit organization established in 1995 by the Emir and is chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Misneed. Education City is a major educational and cultural development in Qatar housing some of the world’s finest academic institutions on a 7-million square-meters site and is set to position Doha as a key centre for the advancement of the people of Qatar and other Gulf states.
Scheduled for completion in 2008, Education City is already flourishing and providing excellent educational facilities from kindergarten through junior and secondary levels to internationally recognized graduate and post-graduate studies and research programmers. Education City will include world-class facilities covering business, community development, science, information technology, Islamic studies, media and communications, sports facilities, and a 350-bed teaching hospital.Education City’s universities are a striking addition to the academic assets of the Middle East. They not only teach degrees identical to those at "home", but are also setting up research centres and programs of international significance. The universities include Texas A&M University at Qatar (four streams of engineering), Carnegie Mellon Qatar (computer science and business) and Weill Cornell Medical College Qatar (medicine).
For further information on Qatar Foundation, visit www.qf.edu.qa
Qatar Foundation’s Science & Technology Park (STP)
STP is rapidly becoming the Middle East’s premier location for the development and commercialisation of technology. The park is a home for companies to develop their intellectual property and deliver it to the marketplace; for research institutes to undertake collaborative R&D; and for entrepreneurs to create and grow start-up companies. Already EADS, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Shell and Total have announced that they will join STP. Construction is underway, and its first phase of multi-user buildings will open by the end of 2005.The first phase of buildings opens in December 2005, and temporary accommodation is available until then at existing Education City buildings.
The first phase comprises: Two Innovation & Technology Transfer Centres, designed for larger tenants, which offer space in increments of 500 m2, and the Emerging Technology Centre which provides support for smaller tenants and start-up companies, with space in increments of 50 m2. In early 2006 Qatar’s National Data Centre will open in the park, providing IT services both within and beyond Education City.
STP will provide tenants with state-of-the-art operational services including high bandwidth internet connection, internet-protocol telephony and advanced security. It will also make available professional business- and technology-support services, delivered either internally or by third parties, such as human resource, legal, accounting, marketing, and intellectual-property advice.
For further information on Qatar Foundation, visit www.qf.edu.qa
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