CERT Group of Companies

The Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training  (CERT)
Company typeEstablishment owned by The Higher Colleges of Technology
IndustryEducation
FoundedAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (1996)
FounderNahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan
HeadquartersAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Number of locations
16 separate campuses across the United Arab Emirates 
Key people
  •  Abdulrahman Al Awar, Chairman
  • Mohamed Baka, CEO
Products
  • Consultancy 
  • Education & training 
  • Technology solutions 
  • Real estate 
Number of employees
300+ FTE (Post March 2021)
SubsidiariesCERT Foundations 
Websitewww.cert.ae

The CERT (Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training) Group of Companies began as the commercial arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates, and has grown to be the largest private education provider in the Middle East. CERT is also the largest MENA (Middle East North Africa) investor in the discovery and commercialization of technology, investing US$35 million in 2006.

In 2005, CERT signed Telematics with IBM, that has led to the development of Telematics technology in the United Arab Emirates. CERT provides the only super computing center in the South Asia, Middle East, North Africa region. The CERT Blue Gene supercomputer[1] offers 5.7 teraflops calculating speed to corporate clients for use in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and genetics research as well as oil and gas simulation.

CERT Technology Park in the UAE is home to international companies such as Intel, Honeywell and Lucent Technologies.

  1. ^ CERT Blue Gene supercomputer Archived 2006-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, CERT.