Friday 15 / November / 2024
Muscat: Chaired by His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, Advisor of His Majesty the Sultan and Chairman of The Research Council (TRC), the TRC Board has approved a proposal to establish a strategic research programme on water related research.
First meeting of 2016
The approval came at the first meeting of the TRC 2016 held on Sunday at the headquarters of TRC in Al Othaiba and as part of a move to implement the recommendations of the third Sultan Qaboos Science Chairs Symposium, organised by the Sultan Qaboos Higher Centre for Culture and Sciences.
The Board granted approval, in principle, of a proposal to establish the Environmental Excellence Centre, in response to the need in the Sultanate to create a specialised centre in environmental industries, to include the study of the added value of waste.
Be’ah proposal
The step was proposed by Oman Environmental Services Holding Company (Be’ah), to become a centre that provides innovative solutions and modern technologies for waste-related environmental challenges, and in order for it to be a platform to improve the capabilities of the environmental sector in the Sultanate, to keep pace with global capabilities.
Summary report
Board members were also briefed on the summary report on the progress of the strategic research programme on developing an integrated management for the Dubas Bug research Programme.
They heard a follow up to the execution of the decisions of the third TRC Board meeting for the year 2015, including results of the second call of the Open Research Grant Programme for the year 2015, and the report of the eighth meeting of the International Advisory Board, which was held last October.
