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Dubai Future Academy: A New Milestone in the Emirates Future-Readiness Agenda

Dubai - "Launching the Dubai Future Academy is an all-natural development from the work taken on by the Dubai Future Foundation," stated His Excellency Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation, as he revealed the main launch of the Academy.

The Academy supplies integrated future-oriented education and training programs, H.E. described, allowing government officials and private-sector professionals in the UAE and the region to raise their awareness of the calculated industries of the future, which, then, improves their capabilities to make sound choices, plan, and create strategies for the future.

" His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, visualized a process and an equation for the sustainable growth of the UAE," H.E. Al Gergawi noted; "preparing for the future and proactively planning for it is the really core of this vision. H.H. called for a future-focused technique that aims to make it possible for individuals and institutions and to advertise a future expectation in the UAE."

" With H.H.'s directives in mind, the Dubai Future Structure has launched and organized a number of initiatives, including the Museum of the Future, the Office of the Future, Mostaqbal Portal, and the Dubai Future Accelerators program, among others," H.E. included. "The Academy's programs do not only focus on future-planning, but also combine them with design and modeling tools in order to train participants in tactical planning, and enable them to identify future trends and difficulties, and design remedies for them."

The Academy presents 3 "major courses", specifically, the Executive Education Program, Future Design Diploma, and Master's in Applied Future Sciences. These programs are open to greater than 500 participants from the federal government and economic sectors, from the UAE and the region. The Academy will certainly additionally supply a series of "minor courses" in topics associated to the Fourth Industrial Change, such as Blockchain, expert system, deep knowing, biotechnology, etc

H.E. Saif Al Aleeli, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Future Structure, stated that the launch of the Dubai Future Academy includes in the Structure's initiatives to prepare people and organizations for the future. The new establishment will play a key function in sealing the UAE's status as a center for education and training in this strategic area, H.E. included; it will certainly enable individuals to establish sophisticated skillsets in tracking and examining future fads, determining their effect, and suggesting options for them.

For her part, Maha Khamis Al Mazeina, Project Manager at Dubai Future Structure, noted that the programs provided are all rooted in innovative strategies, and have actually been developed in partnership with first-rate establishments and future specialists, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern technology Expert Education, the Emeritus Institute of Management, THNK School of Creative Leadership and the Changeist group, as well as faculty that show at Duke University, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, the Istituto Europeo Design in Barcelona, Columbia Business School and Stanford University, all experts in executive education.

The Executive Education Program, arranged in partnership with THNK School of Creative Leadership that runs an annual program at Stanford University, aims to spread out knowledge and raise recognition around one of the most famous global patterns in renewable energy, water, transport, education, health, modern technology, and area. These markets stand for the columns of the National Innovation Approach, which was introduced by H.H.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid in October 2014 to earn the UAE among the most innovative countries on the planet over the training course the next 7 years.

This program includes 2 kinds of training courses, the very first which is made up of brief one-day training courses provided on a regular monthly basis and concentrating on analyzing global future trends for one details sector. The training course can organize concerning 30 individuals - supervisors, executives, heads of departments, and officials from government and local governments, along with the private sector. The 2nd type contains five-day courses targeting about 50 high-level supervisors and organized 5 times a year. These courses will in a similar way focus on global future fads within particular markets and fields, in addition to on the effect of the Fourth-Industrial- Change modern technologies.

Meanwhile, the Future Design Diploma will exist in partnership with the Changeist group, and looks for to enable government leaders, bolster their ability to develop the future, assisting them boost their instinctive skills and carry them right into developing options for future difficulties. The Diploma consists of 2 courses, the first which contains short one-day sessions-- organized five times a year-- that go over a set of future-focused principles and techniques. The second course, meanwhile, will certainly be extra intensive, competing two weeks five times a year. The course needs participants to work on tasks in markets such as power, water, infrastructure, health, education, etc., where they can get academic knowledge along with practical abilities.

Throughout two years (4 terms), the Master's in Applied Future Sciences-- organized in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Expert Education and the Emeritus Institute of Management-- seeks to allow individuals to identify future possibilities and develop situations to capitalize on them. Just what is even more, participants will certainly learn how to use reverse engineering in design and to use flexible decision-making, taking into account the fast modifications going on around the world on the political, financial, and social degrees.

College graduation will certainly call for the completion of 11 training courses, consisting of: understanding and checking out technological innovation, anticipating the future and design, modeling technological remedies, and decision-making and design within altering problems. Courses will certainly incorporate virtual class with conventional ones - where students will be needed to participate in as soon as every 2 months for a period not exceeding five days.

There will additionally be lectures, discussions, case studies, and sensible training, in addition to a variety of area and study jobs. Just what is even more, a group of popular speakers and experts will certainly be welcomed to share their experiences and interact with the Future Academy's trainees. Individuals will certainly operate in groups to design solutions for the future of their designated markets. The Dubai Future Structure will supply assistance, assisting the teams carry out and provide their jobs.
Details on the registration procedure will certainly be announced shortly.

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