- The Regulations of participating in conferences and seminars
The Regulations of participating in conferences and seminars for Saudi faculty members:
- 1.Participation should be for the faculty member with the approval of the Department board and the faculty.
- 2.The faculty member is nominated to participate in a scientific paper or attend external conferences or seminars twice during the academic year, distributed over the two semesters and summer, and the conference must have a distinguished scientific reputation.
- 3.If the faculty member can publish in a scientific journal classified in (ISI) or receive acceptance of publication.
- 4.The work during the year prior to the conference, in which they mentioned their affiliation to Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, will be given a third participation opportunity abroad even if it is without a scientific paper.
- 5.The participation of the faculty member in the conference or seminar should not result in any disruption of his assigned work.
- 6.The application for participation must be completed at least two months before the conference or seminar.
- 7.The participation of the member should not be during sabbatical unless the conference is included in their sabbatical program.
- 8.It must be approved as part of her project and within the state in which she spends her sabbatical if it is abroad -so that it is included in the route granted to her- or in any country if the sabbatical is inside, A round-trip ticket is granted (and no decision has been issued to delegate, loan, work as a full-time adviser, delegate to any government or private entity, on a scientific mission or on an exceptional leave).
- 9.A faculty member is not entitled to participate in conferences during the summer for those in charge of administrative work in the summer, in the first week of each semester, during the final tests. The department council may recommend approval if it deems it necessary.
- 10.It is not permissible to participate in research previously participated in conferences or seminars.
- 11.The candidate should not be subjected for disciplinary reasons, has been given a disciplinary ruling by the university administration, or has been sentenced to a ruling due to robbing or stealing scientifically from the Scientific Council last year.
- 12.It is not permissible for more than four members or 5%, whichever is more, from each departments to participate in a single conference, and if it goes any further, the trade-off is done according to the following:
- Participation priority is given with a scientific paper.
- Oral participation in the Conference is given priority.
- Priority is given to the less involved faculty member.
- Priority is given to the highest-level faculty member and, in the event of equality, priority is given to the date of the senior appointment.
- 13.These regulations do not include annual and periodic visits and meetings of the deans, who are invited from several different quarters by virtue of the competence of their tasks and work assigned to them by the university administration. On the condition that the rector agrees upon that.
The Regulations of participating in conferences and seminars for Non-citizen facility members:
- A non-citizen facility member may participate in conferences, seminars and equivalents without any financial obligations.
- A contracting non-citizen facility member must have spent at least one year working in PNU when applying to participate in a conference or a seminar.
- The non-citizen facility member participations shall not exceed one conference/seminar per year.
- Priority of participation may be given to a non-citizen facility member in case of publication or an ISI publication while working in PNU.
General Provisions
- The Scientific Board has the right to interpret these regulations to the work interest in the university.
- The Scientific Board should evaluate the effectiveness of the regulations two years after adopting it.
Conditions:
- The conference's topic should be in relevance to the major of the facility member or to their actual responsibilities.
- proficiency in the conference's language.
- A researcher may participate in the conference following the approval of the other researchers.
- Referring to the university's name in all research papers and scientific posters shared in the conference or seminar according to the official format.
- The convener of the conference must be certified and scientific.
- These controls are subject to any update in regulations or other procedures made by the university.
Financial Benefits:
- The university will provide round trip tickets to the city where the conference is located, for both the facility member and a companion.
- When the task is done, the fees of registration and assignment allowance will be distributed. After attaching the following documentations:
- Job accomplishment certificate.
- A report of the scientific job.
- Participating certificate.
- Conference registration receipt.
The trip duration will be the same as the conference. In case the conference is local, one day is added to each trip and two days are added if it's international.
