The Cabinet labeled it a National Project for Scientific Renaissance and named it Zewail City of Science and Technology.

[4] On May 11, 2011 the Cabinet of Ministers issued a decree to establish the National Project for Scientific Renaissance, and named it Zewail City of Science and Technology.

In March 2015, president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi decreed that the new campus be built by the Engineering Authority of the Egyptian Armed Forces and inaugurated in a one-year time frame.

[7] Zewail City’s University of Science and Technology and Research Institutes are now fully operational at the new campus as four building are completed (Helmy-Nano-Service-Academic).

Further plans include the possibility of opening another campus for the city in the New Suez Canal region during the coming years.