During the 3rd International Conference on Climate Change and its implications for security and development, His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi announced on launching of the climate research competition for faculty members and postgraduate students in Iraqi universities.

Dr. Al-Aboudi stressed that the competition entitled (Iraq and climate and its impact on security, stability and development) is directed to faculty members and postgraduate students with the goal of enabling them to make a qualitative contribution to provide scientific solutions through research published or accepted for publication in the first and second quarter journals of Scopus and Clarivate for 2020 through 2023.

His Excellency reviewed 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.

Dr. Al-Aboudi highlighted 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 prize of five million dinars for each winner.

His Excelkecy added that the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is working hard to enable universities to play effective and active roles in this field, intensify their qualitative efforts, increase scientific publishing areas and expand the circle of university dissertations and theses related to diagnose these phenomena, provide scientific treatments and solutions and enhance development opportunities that will contribute to provide solutions for sustainable climate to change problems.

Dr. Al-Aboudi demonstrated 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, as well as implementing scientific research in this field, besides their support for research projects and their effective contributions in the fields of awareness about the dangers and impact of climate change on the environment and humans.