The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem 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 its implications for security and development, where he stressed that the competition tagged (Iraq and climate and its impact on security, stability and development) is directed to professors and graduate students with the aim of enabling them to make a qualitative contribution to providing scientific solutions through research published or accepted for publication. In the first and second quarter magazines of Scopus and Clarivate journalfor the years 2020 through 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 prizes. For the winners from the humanities specializations and five prizes for the winners from the scientific specializations field 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, and expand the circle of university dissertations and theses related to diagnosing these phenomena, providing scientific treatments and solutions, and enhancing development opportunities that will contribute to providing solutions. Sustainable climate change problems, 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 university academic programs, in addition to implementing scientific research in this field, in addition to their support for research projects and their effective contributions in the areas of awareness about the dangers and impact of climate change on Environment and humans.

Department of Information and Government Communications

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

November 1, 2023