Zewail City’s Board of Trustees approved the establishment of seven institutes representing the following research frontiers:
- Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences (HIMS)
- Institute for Nanoscience and Informatics (INI)
- Institute for Imaging and Visualization (IIV)
- Institute for Energy, Environment and Space (IEES)
- Institute for Economics and Global Affairs (IEGA)
- Institute for Virtual Education (IVE)
- Institute of Basic Sciences (IBS)
This structure represents the planned initiatives at Zewail City of Science and Technology, which will evolve to include additional institutes as further progress is made and as dictated by changes in the scientific landscape worldwide. The most significant criteria for selecting new institutes will be the quality of researchers involved and the availability of sustainable funding for research in an intellectually free environment.
Graduate studies research will be conducted in Zewail City’s research institutes. Research will be conducted at the highest level, with the aim of ultimately reaching the level of institutes such as the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. These institutes will be dedicated to broad but interrelated scientific and technological disciplines. Some fields of research will be particularly relevant to the needs of Egypt and the region. These include R&D in energy, information technology, medicine, and other areas relating to water resources and global climate change.
In the initial phase, there will be up to twelve research institutes. With the passage of time and beyond its first decade, there may appear the need to create new research institutes, but the uniqueness and distinction of the institution must be strictly maintained. Zewail University and the research institutes must also be engaged with and evaluated at the international level, accepting participation of students and researchers independent of ethnicity, race or religion. However, priority will be given to Egyptian students and scholars.
