Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Chairman of the Higher Committee of the Great Arab Minds Initiative, said that the Arab world is full of promising competencies that need to be discovered and enabled to accelerate development and achieve qualitative leaps in various scientific, cultural, economic and technological sectors.
He stressed that the Initiative embodies the belief of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, in the Arab capabilities and creative minds that have always contributed to underlining the great achievements of human civilisation and were behind many important innovations and inventions.
The Great Arab Minds Initiative represents a new milestone to restore the role of Arab civilisation, celebrate the achievements of Arab minds, explore distinguished talents, nurture and empower them, develop their ideas, appreciate their efforts, and highlight their capabilities and potentials, so that the impact of this positive scientific movement will prevail on the future of the entire region, he added.
This came during the first meeting of the specialised committees of the Great Arab Minds Initiative, during which the evaluation process of the nominations received by the Initiative was reviewed, which included thousands of nominations for scientists, researchers, and those with scientific contributions, as well as from the scientific and research community, universities and institutions around the world.
The meeting also discussed the vital role that candidates can play through their excellence in their specialisations in inspiring and motivating talents and competencies to lead the paths of sustainable economic, social and human development, as well as enhance scientific, creative, intellectual and knowledge production.
The meeting was attended by Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy, Chairman of the Economics Committee of the Great Arab Minds Initiative; Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology, Chairman of the Engineering and Technology Committee of the Great Arab Minds Initiative; Essa Kazim, Governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre; Dr. Amer Ahmed Sharif, President of Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Academic Health Corporation (DAHC); and Saeed Al Nazari, Secretary-General of Great Arab Minds Initiative.
Al Marri said that this Initiative constitutes a path to accelerate economic development throughout the Arab region by benefiting from the inspiring ideas of distinguished Arab talents and minds who are able to put forward promising initiatives that create and multiply future economy opportunities and put them within the reach of younger generations.
Al Amiri stated that the importance of the Great Arab Minds Initiative, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, underscores the importance of investing in Arab minds of scientists and researchers, seizing opportunities and turning them into strategic projects to benefit from them in developing young cadres and competencies and developing solutions to the challenges of Arab societies.
The first meeting of the specialised committees of the Great Arab Minds Initiative covering the six categories of the Initiative, namely medicine, natural sciences, economics, engineering and technology, literature and arts, architecture and design, constituted an important milestone for communication between committees, exchanging ideas, comparing nominations and planning the next stages of the Initiative.
The Great Arab Minds Initiative aims to search for the most prominent Arab prodigies in six vital sectors, and to allocate the Initiative’s budget of AED100 million to sponsor and empower them and develop their ideas in cooperation with the best international partners, in order to maximise their positive impact in the region.
News Source: Emirates News Agency