Program definition:
A program to finance joint research projects between a research team of faculty members or researchers at Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz University and faculty members or researchers from distinguished universities or international research institutions in the field of scientific research.
Objectives:
1. Develop scientific and technical research at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University through research partnership with prestigious international research centers.
2. Develop the research capabilities and skills of faculty members and researchers through the exchange of experiences and knowledge with their counterparts from international universities.
3. Support the creation of research teams of faculty, researchers and graduate students.
4. Encourage the exchange of scientific visits between Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz University and prestigious international universities.
5. Increase the rate of scientific publication of research outputs in international scientific journals with a high impact factor.
Duration:
18 months from the date of issuance of the contract, with the possibility of granting an additional period that does not exceed half of the duration of the project for completion, provided that the extension does not entail any additional financial dues.
Terms and conditions:
1. The research proposal or part of it should not have been supported by any party outside or inside the university.
2. Priority of support given to researchers who are not associated with research projects currently supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research or with previously failed projects.
3. The percentage of citation in the research proposal should not exceed 25%.
4. The research team should be composed of no less than three researchers, in addition to the following conditions:
- Two members of the research team should be faculty members at the university
- The principal researcher should be from the university faculty.
- The participation of assistants and advisors from outside the University is allowed
- The participating researcher from outside the University must be a distinguished researcher
5.The comparison is based on the research activity of the external participant researcher during the past three years within the Web of Science and Scopus Databases.
6. Each member of the research team must participate in at least half of the number of published research papers.
7. he amount of financing sum does not exceed 200,000 riyals
8. The second party undertakes to achieve 35 points for the projects according to the following table for publishing scientific papers in in scientific journals with impact factor and indexed in the Web of Science database:
9. In all advanced research, it is required that the first researcher and the only correspondent in all researches be from the research team affiliated with Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University.
10. The research team should acknowledge the Deanship’s support as follows:
“This project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University award number “……………..”
11. If the research project results in patents, inventions, discoveries, or products, the intellectual property will belong to the university and the research team of Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University employees.
Application procedure:
The research proposal is submitted in accordance with the scientific research system via the following link:
https://services.psau.edu.sa/research/Researcher/Research
