Duties of the Vice-Presidency for Research and Technology

Sayyed Alireza Hosseini

Vice-President for Research and Technology

General duties of the vice-president:

• 1. Administering and overseeing the proper conduct of all research affairs, libraries and databases of the university, in accordance with the relevant resolutions, rules and regulations.
• 2. Planning and policy-making to enhance and increase the level of academic and international cooperation.
• 3. Giving priority to innovation in the theoretical domain and to applied research needed by the country.
• 4. Developing, strengthening and steering approved research projects, with priority given to purposeful applied research based on the national vision document, the country's development plans and the national comprehensive scientific roadmap.
• 5. Monitoring and supervising the faculty's research processes according to the schedule set out in the proposals of approved research projects.
• 6. Conducting the studies required to evaluate research activities and to assess the university's annual research performance, for submission to the university president.
• 7. Establishing the necessary links with domestic and foreign institutions in order to cooperate in research affairs and to exchange scientific services.
• 8. Coordinating and cooperating in the provision of scientific, cultural and social services, holding academic seminars and conferences, and carrying out all matters relating to research and service contracts between the faculty and other institutions.
• 9. Cooperating in running short-term research courses for non-university institutions.
• 10. Planning for faculty members to make use of sabbatical opportunities inside and outside the country (including seminary and university research centres) in accordance with the approved rules.
• 11. Preparing the university's research plan and setting out research objectives and priorities in the form of medium- and long-term programmes, and supporting the establishment of growth centres, entrepreneurship centres and science and technology parks, for consideration by the university's Specialised Research Council.
• 12. Reviewing and evaluating the faculty's activities within the framework of the country's growth and development plans, based on the goals of the national vision, the country's development programmes and the national comprehensive scientific roadmap in the higher-education sector, for consideration by the Board of Directors.
• 13. Identifying and defining joint scientific and research topics and programmes, and planning to provide the facilities and allocate the funds needed for research interaction between the seminary and the university, and creating a suitable environment for attaining the religious sciences and the humanities appropriate to the university's field of specialisation.
• 14. Proposing the appointment of the head librarian to the university president.