Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr Naim Al-Aboudi honoured the winners of the Higher Education Reading Award in its second edition for the year 2024.

In his speech during the honouring ceremony, he stressed that the award project adopted by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research for the second consecutive year opened a wide field for reviewing and strengthening the contexts of public culture, pointing out that university students participated and contributed to absorbing its scientific and cultural meanings and integrated the requirements of cultural responsibility that embodies the identity of society and its past, present and future extensions.

The Minister of Education reiterated the importance of these programmes and events in undergraduate studies and paving the way for their transition from competitions to the environment of scientific research that achieves the usefulness of the university degree, which should address the challenges and dangers faced by societies and leave a clear impact that reduces effort and time in terms of producing solutions and dismantling problems.

The organising committee’s speech was delivered by the Director General of the Research and Development Department, Dr. Lubna Khamis Mahdi, while the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Al-Aboudi, honoured the winning students with 100 million dinars and the organising committee with thanks and appreciation for their efforts in organising the procedures of the competition.