{"id":12541,"date":"2021-02-23T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/23\/thrive-in-abu-dhabi-programme-launched-to-encourage-global-talent-investors-to-build-their-futures-in-the-emirate\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:00:00","slug":"thrive-in-abu-dhabi-programme-launched-to-encourage-global-talent-investors-to-build-their-futures-in-the-emirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/23\/thrive-in-abu-dhabi-programme-launched-to-encourage-global-talent-investors-to-build-their-futures-in-the-emirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrive in Abu Dhabi programme launched to encourage global talent, investors to build their futures in the emirate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Long-term visas and paths to citizenship to accelerate growth in Abu Dhabi\u2019s priority sectors                             <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 23 February 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Talented&#13;<br \/>\nprofessionals and students, and investors, in priority sectors are being&#13;<br \/>\nencouraged to set down roots with their families in Abu Dhabi as part of a new&#13;<br \/>\nprogramme that supports the emirate&#8217;s strategy to develop key areas such as&#13;<br \/>\nculture, healthcare, research and development (R&amp;D) and real estate.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Thrive in Abu Dhabi<\/b> highlights the long-term visas&#13;<br \/>\nand paths to citizenship available for expats working, creating, studying,&#13;<br \/>\nexcelling or investing in priority sectors that empower them to build their&#13;<br \/>\nfutures in a safe, welcoming and supportive environment, while contributing to&#13;<br \/>\nAbu Dhabi&#8217;s sustainable development. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Creative talent<\/b> are encouraged to be part of a global&#13;<br \/>\narts and culture hub, join the emirate&#8217;s dynamic media and entertainment&#13;<br \/>\nindustry, or support the development of our understanding of the past among&#13;<br \/>\nfellow academics, conservators and archaeologists.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The creative visa builds on Abu Dhabi&#8217;s five-year Culture Sector&#13;<br \/>\nStrategy for Abu Dhabi, unveiled in November 2019 by the Department of Culture&#13;<br \/>\nand Tourism, which covers five strategic objectives: preserve and sustain Abu&#13;<br \/>\nDhabi&#8217;s cultural heritage; increase awareness of, and engagement with, cultural&#13;<br \/>\nheritage and the arts; stimulate creativity as a driver for education and&#13;<br \/>\nsocial change; build and enable capacity in Abu Dhabi&#8217;s culture sector;&#13;<br \/>\ncontribute to economic growth and diversification.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Abu&#13;<br \/>\nDhabi has a thriving cultural and creative sector with strong global&#13;<br \/>\ncredentials, including world-class museums, arts centres, art fairs,&#13;<br \/>\nmusic concerts, and a grassroots artistic community. These include Louvre Abu&#13;<br \/>\nDhabi, Manarat Al&#13;<br \/>\nSaadiyat, Warehouse241, Abu Dhabi Art annual fair, Qasr AlHosn and Cultural&#13;<br \/>\nFoundation and the forthcoming Zayed National Museum and Guggenheim, as well as&#13;<br \/>\ninternational educational institutions supporting students to excel in creative&#13;<br \/>\nindustries: NYU Abu Dhabi, Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, Berkley College and CNN Academy.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Students with a PhD or promising scientific ability<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\nat either high school or university level can expand their horizons and ensure&#13;<br \/>\nexciting career paths by studying at one of a collection of world-class&#13;<br \/>\nacademic institutions in Abu Dhabi, including NYU Abu Dhabi, Sorbonne Abu Dhabi&#13;<br \/>\nand Khalifa University, which in January 2019 was ranked 13th out of 442&#13;<br \/>\nuniversities from 43 countries in the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity Rankings. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Students can learn the skills of the future, including in&#13;<br \/>\nspecialist areas such as AI, at the new Mohamed bin Zayed University for&#13;<br \/>\nArtificial Intelligence, or coding at the innovative coding school 42 Abu&#13;<br \/>\nDhabi. They can participate in pioneering research in areas related to Covid-19&#13;<br \/>\nand AgTech at UAE University, or focus on tolerance and coexistence at the&#13;<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s first university dedicated to human fraternity, the Mohamed bin Zayed&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity for Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Thrive in Abu Dhabi invites<b> innovators <\/b>to turn their&#13;<br \/>\nidea into reality &#8211; with access to funding and incentives &#8211; as part of a&#13;<br \/>\ndynamic R&amp;D ecosystem that is pioneering new technologies to solve the&#13;<br \/>\nglobal challenges of the future, from water security to food technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The emirate is focused on fostering a thriving R&amp;D&#13;<br \/>\necosystem that brings together all relevant players, including academic&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutions, research institutes and the private sector. In 2020, Abu Dhabi&#13;<br \/>\nlaunched the Middle East&#8217;s first research council, the Advanced Technology&#13;<br \/>\nResearch Centre (ATRC). It includes the Technology Innovation Institute, whose&#13;<br \/>\nseven pillars are quantum research, autonomous robotics, cryptography, advanced&#13;<br \/>\nmaterials, digital security, directed energy and secure systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As part of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s accelerator programme, Ghadan 21, the&#13;<br \/>\nDepartment of Education and Knowledge has launched academic research grants to&#13;<br \/>\naward AED40 million in competitive research funding to support R&amp;D. Abu&#13;<br \/>\nDhabi&#8217;s economic investment strategy is also focused on attracting&#13;<br \/>\ninnovation-led companies that are focused on R&amp;D. For example, all AgTech&#13;<br \/>\nfirm investments by Abu Dhabi last year included significant R&amp;D set-ups.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Investors, including entrepreneurs,<\/b> can tap into&#13;<br \/>\nmajor opportunities by expanding their business in key sectors including five&#13;<br \/>\n&#8216;growth sectors&#8217; identified by ADIO &#8212; financial services, ICT, health services&#13;<br \/>\nand biopharma, AgTech, and tourism &#8212; as well as real estate. Long-term visas&#13;<br \/>\nalso empower expats to invest in their &#8220;forever home&#8221; in an attractive real&#13;<br \/>\nestate market where they can plan to retire.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Start-ups&#13;<br \/>\nare receiving significant support, with Abu Dhabi emerging as a global start-up&#13;<br \/>\nhub, particularly for future technologies such as FinTech, AgTech, HealthTech&#13;<br \/>\nand EdTech. Ghadan 21 has accelerated the ecosystem&#8217;s development by supporting&#13;<br \/>\nstart-ups and SMEs through initiatives such as Hub71, a global start-up&#13;<br \/>\necosystem that is now home to more than 100 start-ups, Ventures Fund (managed&#13;<br \/>\nby ADQ) and SME Credit Guarantee and SME supply chain financing initiative. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Those who excel<\/b> <b>in areas such as sport,&#13;<br \/>\nhealthcare, science, education or engineering <\/b>are enabled to accelerate&#13;<br \/>\ntheir careers in a global trade hub with a rapidly diversifying economy and&#13;<br \/>\nfast-growing private sector that supports residents to be the best in their&#13;<br \/>\nfield, while creating a home in Abu Dhabi. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The diversity of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s support for talented expats is&#13;<br \/>\nin line with the leadership vision to diversify the economy as well as ensure a&#13;<br \/>\nwelcoming, safe and supportive environment where everyone can thrive. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For more details about Thrive in Abu Dhabi, the long-term&#13;<br \/>\nvisas and paths to citizenship and the government departments leading each&#13;<br \/>\ncategory, visit \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/are01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftamm.abudhabi%2Fen%2FGolden-Visa&amp;data=04%7C01%7CShamma.Alfarsi%40khalifafund.ae%7C45c51e1c799345dea43208d8cdac74b3%7Ccfb01e1dd57c458f9466965641750d49%7C0%7C0%7C637485487889780267%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=n2D0KKRHBVqvyg%2B20qExvmXFTM8eqQvr5JSkesVvHno%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/tamm.abudhabi\/en\/Golden-Visa<\/a> or call&#13;<br \/>\n+971 2 666 4442 (outside UAE) or 800 555 (within UAE).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/65815#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term visas and paths to citizenship to accelerate growth in Abu Dhabi\u2019s priority sectors SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 23 February 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Talented&#13; professionals and students, and investors, in priority sectors are being&#13; encouraged to set down roots with their families in Abu Dhabi as part of a new&#13; programme that supports the emirate&#8217;s strategy to develop &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}