Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and the Ministry of Business and Superior Expertise have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed toward coordinating joint initiatives and tasks of mutual curiosity between the UAE’s industrial ecosystem and Dubai’s transport and infrastructure ecosystem. The MoU helps the targets of the Make it within the Emirates initiative, significantly within the fields of electrical mobility and autonomous transport, whereas creating high quality funding alternatives by means of the adoption of the Ministry’s Nationwide In-Nation Worth (ICV) Programme.
Beneath the MoU, the 2 events will collaborate to reinforce technological capabilities by offering RTA with entry to the Ministry’s specialised coaching programmes in synthetic intelligence and superior applied sciences. This cooperation helps RTA’s efforts to develop the transport and logistics sector and strengthens the readiness of its workforce to undertake future-oriented options.
The MoU was signed by His Excellency Osama Amir Fadhel, Assistant Undersecretary for the Industrial Accelerators Sector on the Ministry of Business and Superior Expertise, and Mohammed Al Mudharreb, CEO of the Company Expertise Assist Companies Sector at RTA, throughout RTA’s participation in GITEX International 2025, held on the Dubai World Commerce Centre from 13 to 17 October.
Each events agreed to coordinate initiatives and tasks of mutual curiosity, discover alternatives to empower the nationwide industrial sector by means of the event of requirements and technical rules in sensible mobility, and spotlight the Ministry’s programmes — significantly the Make it within the Emirates initiative.
Nationwide In-Nation Worth
His Excellency Osama Amir Fadhel affirmed that the partnership with RTA displays the Ministry’s dedication to its pivotal function in driving sustainable industrial improvement in assist of the Nationwide Technique for Business and Superior Expertise (Operation 300bn) and the Make it within the Emirates initiative.
He said: “This partnership will assist assist nationwide merchandise within the transport sector and advance technological transformation by incentivising firms by means of the Ministry’s initiatives, such because the UAE and International Begin-up Problem and the International Begin-up Trade Programme, providing alternatives for growing and deploying their applied sciences within the UAE in collaboration with industrial companions.”
“The partnership, by means of collaboration on the Expertise Transformation Programme and Business 4.0 initiatives, will improve the change of experience in rising applied sciences equivalent to robotics, automation, drones, and digital twin purposes — supporting the event and adoption of superior applied sciences within the industrial sector.”
Unifying efforts
Mohammed Al Mudharreb, CEO of Company Expertise Assist Companies Sector at RTA, said: “This partnership with the Ministry of Business and Superior Expertise displays the shared dedication of each entities to allow and advance the nationwide industrial sector by unifying efforts between Dubai’s transport and infrastructure ecosystem and the UAE’s industrial ecosystem. This cooperation contributes to enhancing operational effectivity, reinforcing security and high quality requirements, and supporting the expansion and empowerment of nationwide industries.”
“The MoU helps RTA’s imaginative and prescient and mission to attain The World Chief in Seamless and Sustainable Mobility, whereas advancing nationwide targets centered on constructing a powerful knowledge-based financial system and empowering Emirati expertise to drive sustainable industrial development.”
The MoU additionally supplies for the event of incentive packages inside RTA’s providers to allow stakeholders — together with factories and industrial institutions — to function with better effectivity and adaptability. It additional promotes native content material by adopting the Nationwide ICV Programme and attracting industrial investments that contribute to strengthening and rising nationwide industries.
The MoU additionally emphasises cooperation in growing technological capabilities by means of the Ministry’s specialised coaching programmes in synthetic intelligence and superior applied sciences. It helps sustainability and the round financial system by means of sensible tasks and initiatives equivalent to recycling electrical automobile batteries, remanufacturing spare components, adopting inexperienced procurement insurance policies, and lowering emissions.