Introduction

Research is an essential component in Qatar Foundation's strategy to make Education City a world-class center for innovative education. Qatar Foundation's Research, Science and Technology Division, with Education City's branch campuses and Research Centers, is aiming at pursuing cutting-edge research and development that helps build Qatar's innovation and technology capacity, supports the growth of Qatari society and uncovers solutions to national challenges in health, climate change, the environment, clean energy and other fields.
Qatar Foundation's research strengths will be organised around core platforms of medicine, biotechnology, information and communication technologies, environmental sciences, energy, molecular sciences and nanotechnology. Each of the university branch campuses boasts a research element, and Education City's Medical and Research Centre will be as much cutting-edge research facility as clinical care provider. And Qatar Science and Technology Park will be an incubator where private companies can partner with government agencies and academic institutions and developing research into commercial applications. Qatar National Research Funds plays a vital role in providing financial support to researchers at all levels, from students to professionals, in the private, public and academic sectors.
As part of Qatar Foundation supporting national aspirations for research and development, the Research Division implements a number of programmes that relate to achieving the development in niche areas of science that give the country competitive advantage while raising the research profile at the global stage.
Qatar Foundation envisions research as a catalyst for expanding and diversifying a country's economy; enhancing the education and well-being of its citizens and the training and development of its workforce.