FRENCH oil giant Total has selected Qatar Foundation’s Education City as its regional hub for executive education and training in Qatar and the Middle East, a spokesman for the Foundation said.
Total and Qatar Foundation will collaborate in identifying leading French and European universities offering highly ranked post-graduate executive degrees and training programmes that can be implemented at the Education City.
Dr Mohamed Fathy Saoud, president of Qatar Foundation, hailed the deal, and said: “This important initiative demonstrates our commitment to work with Qatar’s partners in industry to build a sustainable future for Qatar’s economy, built on a rich pool of highly trained talent. We are very pleased that Total recognises the importance of such an undertaking and look forward to the fruits of this co-operation”.
President of Total E&P Middle East, Ladislas Paszkiewicz, said: “Education has always been a priority within Total. We highly value the confidence given to us by Qatar Foundation not only in the field of industrial development and research, but also in bringing our experience of talent development by highly-ranked educational institutions.”
The educational areas being targeted show the ambitions of Qatar Foundation in building a knowledge-based economy, and cover a broad range of disciplines, including finance, management, science and technology, engineering and culture.
Selected institutions will be encouraged to join North American Universities already in Education City and so enhance the campus’ global coverage and enrich the academic and cultural experience enjoyed by EC students.
Total has a long tradition of supporting educational initiatives in the territories in which it operates, and so brings with it a wealth of experience and contacts in academia and industry.
The deal, sealed with a memorandum of understanding, was signed between the two parties at a ceremony recently.
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