The minister of higher education and scientific research, Dr. Naim al-Aboudi, announced the launch of the climate research competition for professors and graduate students at Iraqi universities.
This was stated in his speech during the third international conference on climate change and the implications of security and development, where he stressed that the competition tagged (Iraq, climate and its impact on security, stability and development) is addressed to professors and graduate students in order to enable them to make a qualitative contribution to providing scientific solutions through research published or accepted for publication in the journals of the first and second quarter of scopes and clarifit for the years from 2020 to 2023.
He explained that it will be available for researchers to submit research through the electronic platform from the first of November until the first of February next year of 2024, pointing out that the best ten participants will be honored with five prizes for winners from humanitarian disciplines and five prizes for winners from the field of scientific disciplines in this competition, which has a financial value of five million dinars for each winner.
He added that the Ministry of higher education and scientific research is working hard to enable universities to play effective and active roles in this area and to intensify their qualitative efforts, increase the scientific publishing spaces, expand the circle of theses and theses associated with diagnosing these phenomena, provide scientific treatments and solutions, and enhance development opportunities that would contribute to providing sustainable solutions to the problems of climate change, pointing out that the ministry and its universities, educational institutions and scientific and research centers have spared no effort to include climate and environmental issues in their university study programs, besides implementing scientific research in this field, as well as supporting research projects and their effective contributions to Areas of awareness about the risks and impact of climate change on the environment and humans.
