American University in Cairo
AC-6: Sustainability Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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Reporter |
Yasmin
Mansour Sustainability Director Office of Sustainability |
6.1 Percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research
Number of academic departments engaged in sustainability research:
Annotated list or inventory of the institution’s sustainability research by department:
Description of the process used to identify the institution’s sustainability research:
Scopus
These data (refer to tables below) were obtained by a match between self-reported (in Annual Faculty Reports) and validated publications on the one hand and the key words for each SDG on the other hand.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:
Points earned for indicator AC 6.1:
6.2 Incentives for sustainability research
Description of the sustainability research incentives for academic staff:
There are institutional support grants available competitively to faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students, providing support for research, and research dissimination activities.
Climate Change Institutional Fund for Climate Change research (available to faculty members competitively)
Bartlett Endowed Fund for Critical Challenges. The focus for calls for the past few years has been SDGs (available to faculty members competitively)
Does the institution provide incentives for students to conduct sustainability research?:
Description of the sustainability research incentives for students:
There are institutional support grants available competitively to faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students, providing support for research, and research dissimination activities.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
Optional documentation
Additional documentation for this credit:
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