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 in Iraqi universities.
This came 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 and climate and its impact on security, stability and development) is addressed to professors and graduate students with the aim of enabling them to contribute qualitatively to providing scientific solutions through published research or accepted for publication in the journals of the first and second quarter of Scopus and Clarivate containers for the years from 2020 to 2023.
He explained that it will be available for researchers to submit research through the electronic platform (https://cra.rdd.edu.iq) from the first of November until the first of next February of 2024, noting that the best ten participants will be honored with five awards for the winners of the humanitarian disciplines and five awards for the 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 space, intensify their qualitative efforts, increase scientific publishing areas, expand the circle of university theses and theses related to 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, its universities, educational institutions and scientific and research centers have spared no effort in including climate and environmental issues in their study programs. In addition to implementing scientific research in this field, as well as supporting research projects and its effective contributions in the fields of awareness about the risks and impact of climate change on the environment and humans.
