OVERVIEW
King Abdul Aziz University in collaboration with Ministry of Education are currently in pursuit of achieving Saudi Arabic Vision 2030 in terms of international cooperation on R & D of the following:
A. Great Challenges Scholarship
It refers to the support provided to relevant R & D activities concerned with confronting and furnishing viable solutions to the following challenges:
- To increase the total capacity of desalinated water by 50%, desalination or recycled water
- To maximize dependency on transfer and storage of renewable energy by 4 % of the total use of renewable energy
- To minimize the threats posed by emerging infectious diseases through prediction, identification of its outbreak, and development of vaccination in Genetics and Bio-Nano technology
- To develop a present simulation mechanism of crown management and control with forewarning abilities
B. Research Capabilities Scholarship
It is mainly concerned with supporting basic and applied R & D in the following secondary disciplines:
- Bio-Genetics
- Bio-Nano Technology
- Polymers and Stimulation
- Red Sea and Marine Studies
- Water Desalination and Sewage Water Recycling
- Renewable Energy
- Oil and Gas
- Pollution Management
- Crowd Management
- Climate Change
- AI
- Cyber Security