Zayed Education Foundation | Scholarships & Leadership

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About us

We are a philanthropic initiative empowering promising young leaders to solve pressing global challenges and support prosperity for all through education, research, and innovation.

Scholarships

We support exceptional students committed to serving with purpose to deliver positive change

Innovation

We fund transformative research projects in high priority sectors at universities in the UAE

Leadership

We nurture young leaders to help them serve with integrity, empathy, and purpose

Our programs

Supporting a new generation of leaders

Ruwwad Zayed

The Ruwwad Zayed program is a merit-based university scholarship supporting a new generation of purpose-driven leaders to use their education to serve humanity.

UAE-India Leaders

Through structured learning and cultural exchange, this program seeks to build insight and relationships that will strengthen UAE-India ties in key priority sectors.

Miracle of Saadiyat

Supporting MA and PhD students to pursue studies in agriculture and food security at the University of Arizona, in recognition of the vision of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

“A country’s greatest investment lies in building generations of educated and knowledgeable youth.”— The late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Founding Father of the UAE