Composition of the Specialist Research Council:
1. Vice-President for Research (chair of the council)
2. Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies
3. Heads of the research offices at the centres
4. One researcher from each of the research units affiliated to the faculty, nominated by the President of the University (where the unit is independent) and nominated by the head of the centres and the college (where the unit belongs to the centres and the college), with the approval and decree of the President of the University
5. Two out of four academic staff members with valuable research activities and works, proposed by the Vice-President for Research, with the approval and decree of the President of the University
Duties and powers of the Specialist Research Council
1. Cooperating with the Vice-President for Research to create the conditions for implementing the resolutions and decisions of the presiding board
2. Submitting proposals in various research fields to the University Council, including:
3. Improving conditions for research at the University and removing obstacles to it
4. Harmonising teaching and research time at the University
5. Partnering with the private sector in implementing research projects, and determining the manner of cooperation with research centres inside and outside the University
6. Examining how research services are provided to various organisations in order to meet the needs of the country, the region and the province, and how the University and the other centres cooperate
7. Cooperating in drawing up the University’s comprehensive research plan
8. Drawing up and proposing the University’s research policies, objectives and guidelines for submission to the University Council
9. Creating the conditions for the development of technology in the faculty and supporting the development of the activity of the University’s incubators, entrepreneurship centres and science and technology parks
10.Preparing, drawing up and proposing researcher-training schemes
11.Examining, drawing up and proposing research programmes with a view to gaining ever greater knowledge of the world of learning and using the latest research methods
12. Proposing how academic staff may use research findings to improve the quality of teaching
13.Preparing and drawing up various research regulations for submission to the relevant authorities
14.Examining and giving an opinion on matters referred to the council by the University Council or the Vice-President for Research
15.Approving the University’s research projects, giving priority to applied research projects
16.Creating material and moral incentives to encourage academic staff and other teachers to write and translate books and to write research articles, and providing the facilities necessary to expedite the printing and publication of scholarly works
17. Proposing to the University Council the regulations on how scholarly and research books are to be compiled, on the basis of the approved criteria
18.Assessing the level of academic capability and measuring the fitness of the University’s graduates for work in society, through the implementation of special research schemes
19.Determining and proposing the general policy for applying research findings to advance the scientific and technical aspects of the country
Planning for the appropriate distribution of sabbatical opportunities among eligible academic staff