Conference on social sciences kicks off

KUWAIT: Under the auspices of Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Ahmad Al-Mulaifi, the Third International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities kicked off in Kuwait yesterday.

The three-day conference is organized by London Social Consultancy and Research (SCRLondon) center and hosted by Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). SCRLondon also organizes on the sidelines of the conference, the first conference of Scientific Research Academy League. In a speech read out on behalf of Minister Al-Mulaifi, KISR’s Director General Dr Naji Al-Mutairi said that the SCRLondon’s initiative to organize a series of conference on social sciences and humanities help increase interaction and communication between Arab researchers and their peers from the four corners of the globe.

He added that such a kind of conferences help link Arab scientific institutions with Arab researches living abroad to benefit from their researches.

Al-Mutairi stressed that scientific research is giving a great priority by the state of Kuwait.

For his part, the conference President Dr. Othman Al-Siddiqi said that the event aims to bring researchers from all around the world to present their research outputs and hence to foster research relations between researchers and scientific institutions.

He added that the conference also serves as a platform for researchers and delegates to exchange ideas and to establish business or research relations, and to find global partners for future collaborations. —KUNA