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محمد رمضان عبدالمجيد الاعصر

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Vision

Completing the scientific research apparatus in the important scientific and technological fields, promoting it to world-class, and establishing the knowledge society.

Mission

Enhance the scientific research apparatus, generate knowledge and to employ it to contribute to the national development, and to foster a distinguished generation of scientists and researchers.

Objectives

Research Chairs Program at King Saud University is geared toward achieving the following:

1-Helping promote the university and kingdom to a world-class status in research and development.

2- Disseminating the culture of research, development, innovation, and creativity in the various fields of human knowledge as well as inculcating scientific patterns of thought that would benefit the community in the long run.

3- Completing the setup of the scientific research apparatus and implementing as well as promoting it to world-class status by creating potential excellence centers at the university geared toward generating a flow of knowledge to be applied in different ways.

4- Focusing research on areas of national priority such as water desalination, nanotechnology, biotechnology, microelectronics, and information technology.
5- Promoting research and publication in Islamic and Arabic studies.

6- Optimizing investment of the university's human and advanced support resources potentials, attracting distinguished scholars in order to learn from their experiences, and investing the university foreign relations in this respect.

7- Fostering a high-caliber generation of researcher in the various scientific disciplines and giving them the opportunity for quality training at home and abroad.

8- Enriching human knowledge, stepping up the pace of research at the international level, and promoting scientific and technological productivity both qualitatively and quantitatively.

9- Adopting the experience of outstanding universities around the world with respect to enhance collaboration between the universities and the different institutions across society as well as developing partnership with them.

10- Implementing the university's role in bolstering sustainable development and national economy based on knowledge as well as scientific and technological industry in order to maximize international competitiveness.

Funding

Research Chairs are funded through one of the following:

1.Research Chairs Program budget or University endowments.

2.Financial support from the Higher Education Fund.

3.Self-funding through profits from the Chairs' activities.

4.Donations, wills, gifts and endowments (thus far the most significant funding source).

Funding Amount and Installments:

The funding amount varies among individuals and institutions (5 to 15 million Saudi Riyals). It is paid in installments as follows:

1.A fixed amount determined by the donators and covering the costs of the Chair’s activities for a specific period of time.

2.Multiple installments varying in size according to the nature of the financers:

a.Individual financers make a down-payment of two million Riyals followed by a one-million-Riyal yearly installment over a period of three years.

b.Companies, banks, and institutions make a down-payment of four million Riyals followed by a two-million-Riyal yearly installment over a period of three years.

It is worth-mentioning that the above financers are welcome to increase the size of their funding at any time.

Privileges Enjoyed by the Financers

1.The Chair shall bear the name of the financer, whether it be an individual or an institution.

2.The name of the contributor or donator shall be inscribed in:

·The University golden record

·The Chair’s workshop or laboratory

·Research published in scientific periodicals

·The Chair’s space areas and all related activities

·Patents of invention and scientific books resulting from the research activities carried out by the Chair

3.Supporters are given the University trophy in honor of their efforts.

4.Supporters may benefit from the Chair’s research findings and enjoy priority of its consultative services.

Forms of Spending
Support funds fall under diverse forms of spending, namely:

1.Supporting the Chair’s research and studies projects.

2.Purchasing and providing for all required equipment for the Chair’s research activities.

3.Financing seminars, research sessions, workshops and conferences deemed necessary for the Chair’s activities.

4.Financing other activities needed by the Chair.