Qatar Foundation
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Headquarters | Education City, Doha, Qatar[1] |
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Website | qf.org.qa |
Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (
According to the Qatar Foundation, its initiatives are oriented towards education, science and research, and community development. It has solicited a number of international universities to establish campuses in Qatar.[4] It has also made commercial investments.[5] The Qatar Foundation's activities have been characterized by critics as influence peddling or lobbying.[6]
Education and research
The Qatar Foundation has established five Qatar Academy branches,[7] the Awsaj Academy for children with learning difficulties,[8] and the Academic Bridge Program, a post-secondary school program.[9] From 2003 to 2013, the Qatar Foundation ran the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute in a partnership with the RAND Corporation.[10]
In higher education, Qatar Foundation established branch campuses of eight international universities and one home-grown university at the main campus just outside Doha:
- 1998 – Virginia Commonwealth University.[11][12]
- 2002 – Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar opened.[13][12]
- 2003 – Texas A&M University at Qatar opened.[14][12] In 2018, Qatar Foundation lawyers filed a lawsuit to block Texas A&M from releasing records about the foundation's donations.[12]
- 2004 – Carnegie Mellon University Qatar opened.[15][12]
- 2005 –
- 2008 – Northwestern University in Qatar opened.[18][12]
- 2010 – Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) opened.[19]
- 2011 –
- 2011 – 2020 University College London Qatar was in operation until October 2020.[21][22]
The US Education department has investigated Georgetown University, Texas A&M, Cornell and Rutgers over their funding from Qatar.[12]
The foundation sponsors the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), which has been held in Doha since 2009.[23]
The majority of the universities on Qatar Foundation's campus run their own research programs, often collaborating with QF's own applied research bodies.
Stars of Science, a
The Qatar Foundation has organized the
Culture and arts
The Qatar Foundation has opened the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007,[46][47] and the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in 2010. The museum holds one of the largest collections of sculptures and paintings by Arab artists in the world,[48] and has published an online encyclopedia of Arab artists.[49]
Msheireb Properties (a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation) initiated a $5.5 billion commercial development project in Doha in January 2010.[50] Originally called "Heart of Doha", the project was renamed "Msheireb Downtown Doha" in reference to the historical name of the area.[51] The foundation established the Social Development Center in 1996,[52] Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) in 2005,[53][54] The Doha International Family Institute (DIFI) in 2006,[55] the QatarDebate Center in 2007[56][57] and the Qatar National Convention Centre in 2011.[58][59]
Joint ventures
Joint ventures in the fields of science and research, education and social development are deemed essential to Qatar's transition from an oil-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, as outlined in the Qatar National Vision 2030.[60] Thus, the foundation has set up a number of commercial joint ventures with global partners. Profits generated are shared by both parties, with Qatar Foundation's portion being distributed into its core nonprofit activities.[61]
Vodafone entered in a partnership with QF to launch Vodafone Qatar in 2009.[62] It was granted a fixed telecommunications in September 2008, thereby becoming the second mobile network operator to be licensed in the country.[63]
QF launched
In December 2011, QSTec announced that it would be constructing a
Sponsorship
On 10 December 2010,
In October 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a plan to work with the Qatar Foundation to support the growth of the Arabic Wikipedia.[75] Later, the media reported that the Wikipedia page for the Qatar Foundation was allegedly edited by a public relations associate of the foundation, for which there was "strong, if circumstantial evidence".[76] It was claimed by Qatar Foundation in November 2015 that the partnership had culminated in the creation of over 6,000 articles on the Arabic Wikipedia.[77]
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