Vision:
To make the University of Hamdaniya distinguished by creative scientific research that seeks practical solutions to current societal problems, while also encouraging rigorous scientific publishing and advancing the scientific outcomes of the college departments. The unit also aims to proactively address potential future challenges and ensure the university plays an active role in the cultural and developmental progress of the region across various fields.

Mission:
To adopt prior planning, flexible organization, and accurate execution of the university’s scientific activities and outcomes in line with ministry regulations and standards, serving the public interest. The unit also strives to provide support for distinguished scientific outputs and to develop faculty members’ research capacities in ways that serve the college.

Objectives:
– Provide all necessary material and moral resources to enhance the overall research environment of the college, departments, and staff. 
– Organize seminars, workshops, and scientific conferences in coordination with academic departments. 
– Develop faculty skills through constructive training programs focused on scientific research and quality publishing. 
– Foster collaboration between the college and other relevant colleges and universities to advance research and raise the college’s position in global rankings. 
– Focus on promoting and marketing scientific output while encouraging researchers to increase their scientific contributions. 
– Create a comprehensive database of research outputs across all academic departments. 

Scientific Affairs Unit

Main Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Scientific Research: This includes preparing and monitoring research plans and compiling periodic statistics on scientific publications.
• Teaching Quality: Monitoring and reviewing faculty assignments and course materials in the college’s academic departments.
• Scientific Activities: This unit is responsible for monitoring and organizing various scientific activities such as conferences, seminars, and student-related activities like academic visits.
• Scientific Output Quality: This unit monitors the quality of scientific output, especially that submitted for annual evaluation and academic promotion.
• Scientific Cooperation: This unit works to build and strengthen scientific relationships with other universities and research centers by communicating with them regarding joint scientific activities.
• Circulation: The unit disseminates directives and instructions received from the university president and the college deanship to the academic departments, ensuring their implementation. It also collects and consolidates departmental responses and submits them to the university president.
• Issuing Administrative Orders: The unit issues administrative orders related to academic affairs, such as graduation thesis defense committees, laboratory staff, seminars, and other matters.

Achievements of the Scientific Affairs Unit

1. Scientific Research:
   The unit has prepared and monitored the research plans of the academic departments, in addition to compiling periodic statistics on scientific publications by faculty members and researchers, contributing to documenting research activities and enhancing the college’s academic standing.
2. Teaching Quality:
   The unit has followed up and verified the assignment of teaching staff and academic courses within the departments, ensuring their alignment with the instructors’ specializations and departmental needs, thus achieving optimal distribution of teaching loads.
3. Scientific Activities:
   The unit has organized and supervised various scientific activities, including conferences, seminars, workshops, and students’ scientific field visits, thereby strengthening the practical and research aspects of the educational process.
4. Scientific Output Quality Assurance:
   The unit has reviewed and monitored the scientific outputs submitted for annual evaluation and academic promotion to ensure compliance with standards of scientific rigor and research ethics.
5. Scientific Collaboration:
   The unit has developed and strengthened scientific relations with universities and research centers both inside and outside Iraq through formal correspondence concerning joint scientific activities and collaborative research projects.
6. Circulars and Follow-up:
   The unit has disseminated directives and instructions received from the University Presidency and the College Dean’s Office to the academic departments, ensured their implementation, and consolidated departmental responses for submission to the University Presidency.
7. Issuing Administrative Orders:
   The unit has issued several administrative orders related to scientific affairs, including the formation of graduation research committees, laboratory staff assignments, and seminar organization, contributing to the smooth functioning of academic and administrative operations within the college.

Work Guide for the Academic Affairs Unit:

First: Scientific Research

• Preparing and monitoring annual research plans for academic departments.
• Collecting and analyzing statistics related to scientific publications within the college.

Second: Teaching Quality

• Reviewing teaching assignment schedules in academic departments and ensuring their alignment with the academic specialization.
• Monitoring the actual teaching load of faculty members and ensuring its compliance with approved regulations.

Third: Scientific Activities

• Organizing and monitoring conferences, seminars, and workshops in coordination with academic departments and the Continuing Education Unit.

Fourth: Scientific Output Quality

• Reviewing scientific research submitted for promotion or annual evaluation purposes.
• Verifying its publication in reputable journals indexed in international or national databases.
• Creating a database of scientific output by faculty members.
• Monitoring scientific publication rates. Fifth: Scientific Cooperation Axis
• Building scientific cooperation relationships with universities and research centers.
• Coordinating participation in joint scientific projects.

Sixth: Administrative Circulation and Follow-up Axis

• Receiving all official directives and instructions from the university president and the college dean.
• Circulating them to the academic departments within specified timeframes.
• Monitoring the implementation of instructions, collecting responses from departments, and compiling them into an official report.

Seventh: Issuing Administrative Orders Axis

Activities and seminars.

Preparing and issuing orders related to academic affairs, such as:

Committees (graduation thesis defense committees, textbook review committees, etc.).

Laboratory staff assignment orders.

Official Email of the Unit: 
sciaffairs.ps@uohamdaniya.edu.iq