By: Times News Service
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Muscat: Omantel and Sultan Qaboos University have long been strategic partners to foster innovation and scientific research. This partnership s objectives are familiar to those of Oman Vision 2040, which names scientific research as one of the main pillars of sustainable economic growth.
Bound by this common goal, Omantel and Sultan Qaboos University recently selected research projects for the Omantel Grant, supporting faculty and researchers in the university who wish to pursue research projects identified in cooperation with Omantel in the areas of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Nanotechnology. A joint committee met recently to evaluate the year 2020’s research proposals to receive the Omantel Grant for advanced research and chose six – three each from the University’s Nanotechnology Research Centre and the Communications and Information Research Centre.