Palm Hills signs MoU with Taaleem to set up university in West Cairo's Badya

Palm Hills Developments (PHD) and Taaleem Management Services Company, one of CI Capital Holding for Financial Investments’ investments, announce signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture to establish higher education campus in PHD’s flagship project Badya in West Cairo.

Subject to regulatory and corporate approvals, the partnership will establish the university’s campus over a targeted land area of 100,000 sqm in Badya, which is strategically located in the heart of West Cairo. The project will be comprised of an Egyptian private university offering life sciences faculties in collaboration with Medical University of Vienna International (MUVI) and will also include one or more international branch campuses of world-leading universities under the law No. 162 of 2018.

MUVI is a global player in international healthcare Education and Hospital management and is one of Europe’s largest and most highly respected centers of medical training and research and in the top 100 worldwide in the medicine category of leading university rankings. MUVI carries out leading-edge research and provides its students with forward-looking expertise, while patients are offered the most advanced treatments available.

This agreement is part of PHDs’ ongoing efforts to present creative, innovative, and technologically advanced projects to establish a state-of-the-art higher education campus within their flagship city, Badya. The presence of MUVI represents a new chapter in the city’s ever-growing innovative portfolio, and reinforces Badya’s unique position as a connected, fully-integrated, and mixed-use smart city.

This partnership, which is still subject to regulatory, corporate and the Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) approvals of PHD, Taaleem and CI Capital, is of strategic importance to both parties and will cement their strong track record.

Taaleem is a higher education platform in Egypt which owns and operates Nahda University in Beni Suef, the first and largest private university in Upper Egypt with approximately 5,600 enrolled students.

Meanwhile, PHD is a leading real estate developer in Egypt with a diversified project portfolio. According to the terms of the MOU, the joint venture will be managed and operated by Taaleem.

Yasseen Mansour, Chairman and Group CEO of PHD commented: “By establishing this campus alongside the Medical University of Vienna, our vision of Badya as a truly integrated, creative city will come to fruition. This project not only cements Badya as the center of innovation and technology but better serves our residents and elevates the standards of higher education in Egypt. We believe Taaleem is the right partner on the back of their proven track record and solid credentials.”.

Mohamed El Rashidi, CEO of Taaleem, also commented: “This venture comes in line with our diversification strategy, which is under implementation since the 60% stake acquisition of CI Capital and its co-investors in Taaleem in September 2019, and represents Taaleem’s next wave of growth, concretizing our position as one of the largest higher education platforms in Egypt. We are very delighted to invest in this project alongside PHD, Egypt’s pioneer real estate developer, and we are confident that partnership will enable us to achieve our ambitious growth plans.