The section strives to achieve the following goals:

• Regulating and facilitating the participation of the university’s faculty members in internal and external conferences
• Introducing mechanisms that would facilitate the processing of conference attendance applications
• Speeding up and streamlining the processing of conference attendance applications
• Building a data base of research papers which are presented by the university’s faculty members at internal and external conferences
• Prioritizing and sustaining the online electronic processing of applications
• Providing technical support for the electronic system to minimize any problems encountered by the system users.

The section is entrusted with the following duties:

1. Regulating conference attendance
• in accordance with the operating rules and regulations of conference attendance and based on various sources of funding available for applicants from the different colleges and centers
• by providing the university, colleges, centers, and other concerned departments with the information needed about conferences
• by evaluating the conference participations of academics and their equivalent through their reports submitted to the section.
2. Running the online electronic system
• Ensuring the efficient operation of the system
• Regularly surveying system users for better functioning
3. Technical support
• Providing technical support to administrative and academic system users
• Administering the system and solving any technical problem
• Supervising and regularly updating the DAPO’s homepage on the university’s website

Ruqaiah Hamed Al Areimi
Head of Conferences' Services section
Publication & Out Reach Department
Email : alareimi@squ.edu.om
Tel: 24145940