منطقة الجوف-جامعة الجوف

Introduction

The SDGs are a promise made by countries all over the world for sustainable development. The goal also emphasizes the participation and cooperation of various stakeholders, not only governments but also international organizations, civil society, and businesses, not just governments.

The Partnership for SDGs platform is open to all stakeholders, including Member States, civil society, local authorities, private sector, scientific and technological community, academia, and others, to register a voluntary commitment or multi-stakeholder partnership which aims to drive the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to provide periodic updates on progress.

As the world’s population grows and the threats from climate change become more pronounced, the need for sustainable development intensifies. No one country, company, or community has all the answers. That’s why we need to foster partnerships among businesses, governments, and civil society to incubate and accelerate the best ideas for sustainable growth in developing nations.”

JOUF university has the ambition to bring together business, government, and civil society organizations in innovative public-private partnerships to advance solutions to the SDGs that help meet humanity’s greatest needs in five key areas affecting urban centers: food and agriculture, water, energy, cities, and circular economy.

JOUF through partnerships to achieve the SDGs aims to rally leaders from business, government, academia, and NGOs to action for new partnerships that drive inclusive growth and accelerate solutions to the SDGs.

Moreover, we believe that public-private partnerships can accelerate solutions to achieve the SDGs, with a focus on how smart cities can drive success in electric mobility and clean energy access.

Al-Jouf University achieves global achievements during the Hijri year 1443 AH
Al-Jouf University has achieved a new global achievement for the first time in its history by obtaining an advanced position in the Times World Ranking of the Impact of Global Universities, for achieving a number of indicators of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, in accordance with the goals and standards of the United Nations Sustainable Development Organization (SDGs), where the university ranked 401-600 in a competition that included 2400 educational institutions around the world.

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University Achievements
The university continued to be among the ranks of international universities and for the second year in a row in the QS2023 World Rankings to be the 8th in the Kingdom, and ranks between 701 750 globally, as well as the advancement of the specialization of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences for the second year in a row and obtaining the rank of 300-201 globally and the third locally in the Shanghai World University Rankings.

The year 1443 AH witnessed the launch of the second strategic plan of the university, which comes from the vision of the Kingdom 2030 and a translation of the university's future vision and mission. During the past year, the Unit for the Support of the Families of the Martyrs of Duty was established as the first university to take this step, with the aim of providing pioneering services and care programs to the families of the martyrs of duty, in accordance with an institutional organizational framework that achieves excellence and contributes to the service of the country and the development of its society.

The university culminated in the national programmatic accreditation of the academic dental medicine and surgery program, in addition to obtaining all supporting agencies and deanships the ISO certificate in the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System, and signing programmatic accreditation contracts for 7 programs with the Education and Training Evaluation Commission, thus signing all its programs to obtain the national programmatic accreditation, in addition to the Dental Clinics Center obtaining full institutional accreditation from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and the graduate programs obtaining the classification of the Health Specialties Authority.

On the educational side, the university has worked to strengthen the second axis of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 "Thriving Economy" by building an educational system linked to the needs of the labor market, where it opened the Faculty of Nursing, which contains a number of scientific departments, in addition to the opening of the Applied College, which is a leading college in providing applied programs and training courses, to contribute effectively to the promotion of development plans, in addition to the development of a number of graduate programs.

The university has also completed the transformation plan to a three-semester system that aims to develop and update study plans and programs.

The university also launched the Exit Exam project, which aims to ensure the extent to which students achieve educational outcomes at the level of the study program and align the university's programs with the requirements of the labor market.

It also ranked sixth among Saudi universities, within the initiative to promote mental health in universities, according to the National Center for the Promotion of Mental Health. The University also obtained the National License for E-Education and Training from the National Center for E-Learning, after achieving the standards and controls of the Center, which regulates the work of e-learning and training and the issuance of related licenses, in order to control the quality of e-learning and provide quality and distinctive e-learning programs.

Al-Jouf University continued its excellence and support for research and innovation, where the university launched the strategic plan for innovation, which aims to stimulate creativity and innovation and support innovators, in line with the plans of the knowledge economy, which is one of the pillars of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, and signed a number of contracts with entrepreneurs as part of its efforts to support innovation and entrepreneurship.

In the scientific field
The increase in research published according to the databases of the WoS Science Network reached almost 40% from last year, while the increase in Scopus research amounted to more than 35%, and the university witnessed an increase of more than 100% in the rate of reference scientific citations for research published on behalf of the university.

The University had a presence in the field of patents, where 3 international patents were registered with the Australian Office and the United States Patent Office. The university's scholarship recipients have achieved a number of achievements, including: Basma Al-Khanjar received a research grant from the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, Ebtisam Al-Enezi received the award for the best doctoral student for the year 2021 at RMIT University, Australia, and the selection of her research within the research sent to the US Space Agency NASA.

The university is working in light of what the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his Crown Prince Al-Amin – may Allah protect them – offer to achieve their aspirations, it has set its sights on what the university should be in 2030, through the launch of many.

Transformative Initiatives
Transformative initiatives in parallel with national initiatives, including the Green University initiative, where the first phase of it was implemented, by planting more than 3,000 trees during the past year as part of its plan to plant 50,000 trees, the initiative to support national research in conjunction with the 91st National Day, the initiative to support research in the field of moderation, moderation and rejection of extremism, and the university worked to support the second axis of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 "A Vital Society" through the launch of the initiative to support research in the field of human capacity development, and the initiative of learning pathways Al-Marn, and the launch of the Research Partnership Program that aims to strengthen the community research partnership in the Al-Jawf region with various government and private sectors.

The University did not lose sight of the support and empowerment of women, as it launched the initiative to support women's empowerment research, in addition to holding many seminars and lectures with the aim of enhancing the role of women in development.

Figures & Statistics
In order to achieve its societal role, the University has expanded the provision of training programs and seminars to reach more than 23,000 beneficiaries, and has signed memorandums of understanding and joint agreements with a number of government and private sectors, with the aim of providing the necessary consultations and expertise and exchanging knowledge. The university provided dental examination and treatment services in dental clinics, where the number of beneficiaries of the dental center and clinics for the last Hijri year reached more than 11,000 beneficiaries, in addition to the launch of the university initiative of free treatment for the beneficiaries of non-governmental organizations in the Al-Jawf region. The Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the region's health affairs, performed surgeries and patient examinations of more than 4,000 patients in clinics.

The university also hosted the championship of the Sports Federation of Saudi Universities for the 12th season, with the participation of more than 100 players representing 16 universities, in addition to hosting the first meeting of deans and supervisors of information technology in Saudi universities.

The university launched a number of development projects during the last Hijri year with a total of more than 472 million, in addition to signing contracts for projects exceeding 72 million, where they aim to develop the university system and modernize and develop infrastructure and educational facilities. The University also launched the Institutional Excellence Project, activating the role of governance through the adoption of a number of administrative and academic policies and regulations. The university has also witnessed qualitative leaps in the field of digital transformation to support the work of the university through the development and launch of more than 30 services and electronic systems, in addition to achieving a jump in the report of measuring government digital transformation by 18%, and ranked 11th among 371 government entities in the Observatory of Government Services in the Digital Government Authority, in addition to obtaining the national license for free and open source government software.

Al Jouf University achieves a leading position in the Times World Ranking of the Impact of Global Universities for the first time in its history
Al-Jouf University has achieved a new global achievement for the first time in its history by obtaining an advanced position in the Times World Ranking of the Impact of Global Universities, within the Sustainable Development Goals, where the university ranked 401-600 in a competition that included 2400 educational institutions around the world.

The President of the University, Dr. Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Shaya, explained that this classification comes as a reflection of the efforts exerted by the University to enhance its competitiveness at the local, regional and global levels and to achieve the objectives of the University to achieve sustainable development in various fields, which corresponds to the objectives of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 in light of the great support enjoyed by the education sector in the Kingdom by the wise leadership – supported by God – and under the follow-up of His Highness the Amir of Al-Jawf Region, and His Excellency the Minister of Education, stressing the university's progress towards achieving many gains , to achieve the aspirations of the leadership to be a world leader in various fields.

The supervisor of the Ratings Unit, Dr. Nabil Al-Ruwaili, revealed that the university entered into competition with 2400 educational institutions achieving an advanced ranking in a number of the 17 indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals, in accordance with the goals and standards of the United Nations Sustainable Development Organization (SDGs) where it obtained an advanced rating in quality education and decent work, economic growth, good health, well-being and gender equality, in addition to a number of other goals.

It is worth mentioning that the university recently entered the ranks of international universities in the QS 2022 ranking, achieving 700th place globally, 24 Arabs and 7 locally.

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Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development at Al-Jouf University
Al-Jawf University organized a workshop on the operational plan of the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development in Al-Jawf with the participation of academics, experts and researchers representing the community in its various disciplines, at the headquarters of the joint first year in the University City. The workshop began with a speech by the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Ismail Al-Bishri, in which he stressed the importance of scientific chairs and their role in achieving sustainable development, expressing his thanks and appreciation to the Emir of the region, Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, for his interest and support for the university and the scientific research process in it, and supporting development in the region through this chair, which will be an influential scientific tributary in various development fields in the Al-Jawf region. Dr. Al-Bishri expressed his aspiration that the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair will lead to its results that the Emir of the region aspires to in terms of sophistication, development and a comprehensive development start, "as we hear from him from the first glance he came to the region."

Al-Bishri was optimistic about the success of the workshop and the conclusion of the outline and clear strategy of the chair to do its part to the fullest, away from the unattainable hopes. The Rector of the University explained that the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair will contribute to scientific research that serves sustainable development in the economic, environmental and community fields and the establishment of seminars, forums and specialized workshops, wishing at the same time that the exit will be in accordance with what the Emir of the region requested as soon as possible, "which requires a tight road map and a work program for the chair that will launch its activities in the coming days."

The workshop of the operational plan of the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development in Al-Jawf region comes to develop the operational frameworks and announce the beginning of activating the chair and achieving its objectives through the initiatives contained in the National Transformation Program related to the region, to launch sustainable development under the guidance of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, which aims at creating a reality, an advanced economic, social and environmental future and human capital armed with science and aware of the requirements of the stage and what role it should play for the advancement of its region and country in general. The workshop reviewed the most important initiatives related to the development of the region, where the participants from academics, intellectuals, members of the regional council and others discussed the extent to which the objectives of each of these initiatives in the region, which are expected to be achieved from each initiative, have been achieved. Dr. Essam Filali moderated the workshop, dividing the audience into discussion groups and development-related themes, which took place over a period of 5 hours and concluded with an open discussion and a closing session attended by the Rector of the University, where he thanked the attendees and directed the preparation of an urgent report to be submitted to the Emir of the region, Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz.

The chair achieves its objectives through an annual plan that includes a number of activities, the most important of which is the integration of sustainability in all disciplines of the university to achieve the vision, which corresponds to the concepts of sustainable development, the establishment of seminars, conferences and lectures that contribute to the dissemination of the concepts of sustainability in the Kingdom, the establishment of training courses that serve sustainable development in various fields, in addition to benefiting from the global expertise house for sustainable development in all disciplines, and supporting sustainability research at the university to enable researchers to participate in conferences that Concerned with sustainable development in the economic, environmental, health and other fields, and the work of community and research partnerships in the field of sustainable development.

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General / Prince Faisal bin Nawaf signs with Al-Jawf University the agreement of the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development in Al-Jawf
Sakakah 11 Shaaban 1440 AH corresponding to April 16, 2019 AD WAS

His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Amir of Al-Jawf, and His Excellency the Rector of the University, Dr. Ismail bin Mohammed Al-Bishri, signed the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair Agreement for Sustainable Development, which comes from the Kingdom's Vision 2030 and what it includes to achieve sustainable development socially, economically and environmentally, and will address a number of issues of interest to the Al-Jawf region and how to promote sustainable development in various fields.

The vision of the Chair is centered on excellence in scientific research and consultancy for the development of society economically, intellectually and environmentally, while its mission lies in finding scientific solutions and achieving sustainable development.

The objectives of the Chair are based on the issues of sustainable development and their advancement by working to achieve comprehensive, equitable and high-quality construction for all segments of society and building the necessary human capital to achieve this, and the Chair aims to encourage continuing education and provide opportunities for all, achieve an empowered infrastructure in the higher education sector, and raise the level of intellectual and scientific production, to form a tributary that balances with the consumption of natural resources.

The Chair also aims to ensure affordable access for all to modern, reliable and sustainable energy services, as well as to promote food security, a culture of proper nutrition and the promotion of sustainable agriculture, as well as to promote sustainable, inclusive and sustainable economic growth for all.

The chair's themes are to study the relationship of sustainable development with the National Transformation Program 2020 and Vision 2030, activate the role of the university in pushing its outputs towards universality, and activate the measures that should be taken to develop the capabilities of teaching, learning and practical research for sustainable human, economic and environmental development.

As for the activities of the chair, it seeks to achieve its objectives through an annual plan that includes a number of programs and activities, including: integrating sustainability in all disciplines of the university to achieve the aspirations of Vision 2030, which corresponds to the concepts of sustainable development, holding seminars, conferences and lectures that contribute to the dissemination of sustainability concepts in the Kingdom, and holding training courses and supporting research that serves the areas of the chair.

For its part, the university will benefit scientifically by establishing a research information base for the field of sustainable development, and provide financial support to graduate students in various disciplines involved under the research field of sustainable development, research and advisory cooperation with specialized research centers and institutes, raising awareness and belonging among university students and raising their abilities to achieve the prospects of sustainable development, and contribute to the achievement of community partnerships, in terms of strengthening and strengthening these partnerships through the provision of research and training services to community institutions, and the study of issues Pressing in the field of the chair.

For his part, the Rector of the University, Dr. Ismail Al-Bishri, expressed his sincere thanks to His Highness Prince Faisal bin Nawaf, Amir of the region, for his guidance in establishing the Research Chair, stressing that it comes as an extension of the support that Prince Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz - may Allah have mercy on him - was giving to research and scientific studies as the basis of successful government plans and programs seeking to continue to develop and achieve work in them to ensure sustainable national development.

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Workshop on the Operational Plan of the Prince Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development in Al-Jawf Region

Al-Jawf University organized a workshop on the operational plan of the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development in Al-Jawf with the participation of academics, experts and researchers representing the community in its various disciplines, at the headquarters of the joint first year in the University City.

The workshop began with a speech by His Excellency the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Ismail Al-Bishri, in which he stressed the importance of scientific chairs and their role in achieving sustainable development, expressing his thanks and appreciation to His Highness the Amir of the region, Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, for his interest and support for the university and the scientific research process in it, and supporting development in the region through this chair, which will be an influential scientific tributary in various development fields in the Al-Jawf region.

Dr. Al-Bishri expressed his aspiration that the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair will lead to its results that His Highness the Amir of the region aspires to in terms of sophistication, development and a comprehensive development breakthrough, "as we hear from him from the first glance he came to the region."

His Excellency was optimistic about the success of the workshop and the conclusion of the outline and clear strategy of the chair to carry out its role to the fullest, away from the unattainable hopes.

His Excellency the Rector of the University explained that the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair will contribute to scientific research that serves sustainable development in the economic, environmental and societal fields and the establishment of seminars, forums and specialized workshops, wishing at the same time that the director will be in accordance with the request of the Emir of the region as soon as possible, "which requires a solid road map and a work program for the chair that will launch its activities in the coming days."

The workshop of the operational plan of the Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Chair for Sustainable Development in Al-Jawf region comes to develop the operational frameworks and announce the beginning of activating the chair and achieving its objectives through the initiatives contained in the National Transformation Program related to the region, to launch sustainable development under the guidance of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, which aims at creating a reality, an advanced economic, social and environmental future, and human capital armed with science and aware of the requirements of the stage and what role it should play for the advancement of its region and country in general.

The workshop reviewed the most important initiatives related to the development of the region, where the participants, including academics, intellectuals, members of the regional council and others, studied the extent to which the objectives of each of these initiatives in the region, which are expected to be achieved from each initiative, were achieved.

Dr. Essam Filali moderated the workshop, dividing the attendees into discussion groups and development-related themes, which took place over five hours and concluded with an open discussion and a closing session attended by the Rector of the University, where he thanked the attendees and directed the preparation of an urgent report to be submitted to His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Amir of the region.

The chair achieves its objectives through an annual plan that includes a number of activities, the most important of which is the integration of sustainability in all disciplines of the university to achieve the vision that corresponds to the concepts of sustainable development, the establishment of seminars, conferences and lectures that contribute to the dissemination of the concepts of sustainability in the Kingdom, the establishment of training courses that serve sustainable development in various fields, in addition to benefiting from the global house of expertise for sustainable development in all disciplines, supporting sustainability research at the university to enable researchers to participate in conferences related to Sustainable development in the economic, environmental, health and other fields, and the work of community and research partnerships in the field of sustainable development.

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