The Role of the Scientific Endowment in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

• Autores: Hanan A. Al-Jehani
• Localización: JETT, ISSN-e 1989-9572, Vol. 14, Vol. 2, 2023, págs. 1-17
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The researcher aimed by this scientific paper to try to define the role played by a number of Universaland Saudi university endowments in achieving the sustainable development goalsof the United Nationsby identifying the goals and reality of these endowments, with some future proposals to enhance this role played by university endowments in achieving sustainable development goals.In order to achieve the goals of this paper, the Researcher used has used both deductive approach and descriptive approach in the style of documentary studies. Theresults and future proposals that have been reached to enhance the role that universities endowments can play in achieving sustainable development goalsinclude the following:Since,university endowments are one of the important strategic options for achieving sustainable development goals; then, work shall be done in orderto expand the establishment and revitalization of university endowments, and activate its role, as an urgent necessityand not as an option only, to be a tributary to spending on scientific research, scholarships,achievement of scientific and technological progress, and support of projects and industries that lead to sustainable scientific, cultural, social and economic development; that is through professional marketing that attracts relevant parties to establish, support and develop endowments, while spreading the culture of donation, as is the case withthe international universitiesthat are leaders and pioneersin the field of their endowments, in addition tocaring out awareness educational andculturalcampaigns to introduce the university endowment and its importancethrough schools, universities, mosques "Masjids", and various means of media, and for universities to adoptcarrying out awareness cultural and educational campaigns,workshops,lectures, seminars, forums, and conferencesthatdiscuss and highlight the role of the university endowment in supporting the buildingand establishingof theknowledge society interms ofproduction, employment, exploitation, publishing and dissemination, and its role in achieving sustainable development goals, provided that these awareness cultural and educational campaigns, workshops, lectures, seminars, forums, and conferences to bedirected to members of the educational and administrative staff, current students,alumni andgraduate students, companies and private institutions, banks, and businessmen,with the aim of supporting and developing endowment assets; this is in order to enhance social responsibility, while raising awareness of thepublic opinion about the benefits of university endowments in terms of theachievement of sustainable development goals, and forthe future of all societies.