The President of Jazan University sponsors a workshop to support research units’ projects

03 Safar 1442

His Excellency the President of Jazan University, Prof. Dr. Mar’ei bin Hussein Al-Qahtani, stressed the importance of encouraging scientific research among University faculty members and supporting scientific publishing in various academic fields and disciplines, and its presence on various documented and accredited international platforms. This came during his sponsorship of the workshop to support research units’ projects in colleges organized by the Deanship Scientific Research yesterday morning at the theater of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, in the presence of the University’s Vice Presidents and Deans of colleges.

His Excellency the University President explained that the increasing global interest in scientific research makes it imperative for universities to be represented by their faculties and research centers to pay great attention to undertake research in various departments and specializations. He called for the importance of finding an indicator to measure the volume of scientific publications among the Saudi faculty members as well as contractual employees, and he also stressed on the need to pay attention to the volume of research publications in colleges and research centers alike to keep pace with the local and international developments.

For his part, the Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research, Prof. Dr. Muhammad bin Hassan Abu Rasin, explained that the university has performed well in scientific research publishing, as the number of published work in international journals accredited from 2012 to 2020 has increased remarkably due to which the University has made immense progress in the field of research publishing.

He added that the program launched by the Deanship of Scientific Research today to support projects of research units in the faculties will contribute to supporting and increasing the research output in the future.

The Dean of Scientific Research, Dr. Ahmed AbdulHaq, praised that this program aims to encourage colleges to make use of their infrastructure, enhance the quality of research outputs at the University and increase the rate of published research for each faculty member. He indicated that this unit offers services for researchers and consists of research laboratories and centers for carrying out scientific projects in the college. These projects will be supported in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Deanship in support of scientific research. The project will be monitored and the program evaluated to consider the outputs and results.

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