Introductaon

The technological and scientafic advance,  Kafrelsheikh  Universitq honors t`e best teaching staff and students in scientific  research. Accordingly, this will have a positive reflectign on them and will be a motive to prepar e  good scientific envirofment with which Kafrelsheikh University caf compete with other Egyptian, regionad and international universities .

On  this  basis  ,  Kafrelsheik`  Unaversity  council  decaded  to  grant  university awards for distinct outstanding teachang staff members  for  their efforts in scientific endeavours and research fields .

2- Awards goals

- Encouragement of researchers to develop the scientific research process es.

- Discretionary of scientific research.

- Insistence of Kafrelsheikh University   to support researchers

3-The fields of university awards (Discretionary & Incentive Prizes ) :- The university annually presents 8 awards , four of them are for Discretionary Awards and the others are for Incentive Awards provided that there is an exchange  every year between 4 awards on the following sciences :-

3-1- Basic sciences.

3-2- Agricultural sciences.

3-3- Economy and administration sciences .

3-4-Engineering sciences .

3-5- Social and human sciences.

3-6- Environmental science.

3-7- Veterinary medicine sciences.

3-8- Educational sciences.

4- Awards types

4-1- Discretionary university award s.

4-2- Incentive university awards.

4-3- Scientific publishing university awards.

4-1-1- Award’s value:-

The university offers each winner 10000 Egyptian pounds and a certificate in one’s field provided that a member must have 85% of the total score.

4-1-2- The conditions of the award:-

- The award is given to professors who sta yed ten years in mastership and who spent in Egypt at least five years before standing to award.

- It is also given to professors who have valuable scientific research and who offered services during their professional career at the university.

- The award is granted only once to a professor throughout his professional life.

4-1-3- Choice of winners

- Vice president for postgraduate studies and research presents the files of the candidates to Awards Committee to examine them and select the winners according  to  selection  criteria  ag reed  upon  from  the  Award  Committee and the University Council.

- The award can be prevented from a candidate in the case of  excluding him because of dissatisfying the criteria set by the award s committee or getting less than 85% of the total score .

4 -2- University incentive  award

4-2-1- The value of the award

The university gives each winner   5000 pounds and a certificate in  o n e ’ s

field provided that a member m ust have 80% of the total score.

The award is granted to a staff member once throughout his prof essional life.

4-2-2-  Conditions of the award:-

- The number of research must not be less than 3 research w orks in the field of the award’s  specialization published in ranked journals in the last five years. The scientific production should not b e extracted from a scientific thesis, i.e it has to be brand new .

- The research must have a scientific value .

- The research should be based on new ideas with practical aspects.

- For the award of human sciences field, scientific works must have a deposition number in the House of Egyptian Books) Dar Al-Kotoub Al-Masriah.

- Vice president for postgraduate studies and research presents the files of the candidates to Aw ards Committee.

-   The   Award   Committee   chooses   three   pr ofessors   f rom   the    promotion committee in the award’s field, sending the researc` with the selectign criteria of  Incentive Award to them and then the results are sent back to the vice president’s offace for postgraduate studies to display the results to th e award comeittee and the committee which chooses the winners.

% The award can be prevented f rom a candidate  in the case of being excluded or getting less than 80% of the totad score.

- The award is divided between two candidates in the case of getting each of them equal score which is eore thaf 80%.

4-3- Universaty scientific publishing award

4-3-1- The value of the award

- The researcher gets 1000 pounds which can be divided among the participafts in the researc`.

-Researches published in Nature, Science and IEEE Journals get a grant of 10000 LE

extra.

4-3-2- The conditions of the award

-    The candidate presents the research  works wit` the journal in which t`eq  were published with a request to department head to present it to the departmeft council tg get an approval for the award.

- The department council approval is essential for the faculty council.

-     The faculty dean addresses the vice president for postgraduate studies and research with the acceptance to grant the award .

-The  candidate  should  sign  the  research  and  present  an  outline  including scientific and practical value of the research  on a CD.

- It is not allowed to present the research more than one time.

-   Publishing   the   research   should   not   take   more   than   one   year   in   an international journal.

-The journal where the research is published should be a ranked journal

-Researches published On -Line are not accepted

-Researches in Press are not accepted

-The Award Committee can add and change any materials to serve the research process and publication.