Approved Projects

  1. Ongoing Projects:

1.1 Block Funding Program

Call No. Project type Project Title Project ID Principal Investigator Approved Budget (OMR) Mentor/Supervisor
2021 RG An integrated educational platform for students with hearing difficulties (InEPSHeD) BFP/RGP/ICT/21/195 Dr. Zied Bouyahia OMR                                19,930.00 NA
2021 RG Academic Resources Planning System (ARPS): Application to assurance of learning, faculty management and intellectual contribution BFP/RGP/ICT/21/132 Dr. Mansour ALraja OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2021 RG Towards Shared Mobility as a Service in Oman (S-MaaS): Socially-Structured Vanpooling and Shared-Taxis as an Example BFP/RGP/ICT/21/235 Dr. Hedi Haddad OMR                                16,500.00 NA
2021 RG Survey to Document the Spread of Parthenium Weed and its Effects on Native Plant Biodiversity and Climate Change in Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman BFP/RGP/EBR/21/153 Dr. Mahaad Shamas OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2021 RG Electrochemical Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensors Composed of Bimetallic and Trimetallic Nanoporous Composite Materials for Diabetes Monitoring BFP/RGP/HSS/21/150 Dr. Gowhar Naikoo OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2021 RG A Secure IoT-based Health Monitoring System for Oman BFP/RGP/ICT/21/142 Dr. Umer Farooq OMR                                16,000.00 NA
2021 RG An Application of Machine Learning in Reservoir Modeling for Enhanced Oil Recovery BFP/RGP/EI/21/170 Dr. Md Saiful Islam OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2021 GRG Cybersecurity Compliance Among Government Employees: Structural Equation Modeling BFP/GRG/ICT/21/024 Shahrazad Al Marhoon OMR                                  3,000.00 Dr. Mansour ALRaja
2021 GRG Human Resource Management practices and Human capital retention during Global Pandemic and its effects on organizational productivity and performance: perspective in GCC BFP/GRG/EHR/21/030 Sami ALhuzaili OMR                                  3,000.00 Rashida Iqbal
2021 URG Electrochemical Sensors Composed of Bimetallic Nanoporous Metal Oxide based Composite Materials for the Detection of Vitamin D3 in Blood Samples BFP/URG/HSS/21/021 Fay Mohsin Almasahli OMR                                  1,500.00 Dr. Gowhar Naikoo
2021 URG Low Cost Fault Detection System for Photovoltaic Installations BFP/URG/EI/21/011 Haitham Salim Al-Hadhari OMR                                  1,480.00 Dr. El Manaa Barhoumi
2021 URG Digital transformation and sustainable SMEs Performance post crisis (COVID-19): an empirical investigation in Omani SMEs sector BFP/URG/ICT/21/004 Reem Said Tabook OMR                                  1,500.00 Dr. Mansour ALRaja
2021 URG Hierarchically Bimetallic Nanoporous Metal Oxide Composite Materials for HighPerformance Supercapcitors BFP/URG/EI/21/020 Musallam Amer  Tabook OMR                                  1,500.00 Dr. Gowhar Naikoo
2021 URG Smart Irrigation System for Plants BFP/URG/ICT/21/018 Yarub Al Marhoon OMR                                  1,200.00 Dr. Najam Ul Hasan
2022 RG Development of Flexible Photovoltaic Solar Cell using Nanocomposite Materials for The Sultanate of Oman BFP/RGP/EI/22/206 Furqan Ahmed OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2022 RG Preparation of Cost-effective Carbon Nanofibers from Waste Date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Seeds for Potential Supercapacitor Applications BFP/RGP/EBR/22/211 Mohammed Wasi OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2022 RG Fabrication of porous bacterial cellulose composite scaffold for three-dimensional cell growth with effective applications in tissue regeneration and wound healing BFP/RGP/EBR/22/202 Mazhar Ul-Islam OMR                             20,000.00 NA
2022 RG Keeping the Omani Adults Free from Obesity: An Innovative Prevention Program to Combat the Epidemic BFP/RGP/HSS/22/482 Zafar Mehdi OMR                                11,050.00 NA

1.2 Strategic Research Program

Year Funding Institution Project Title Principal Investigator Approved Budget (OMR)
2022 Ministry of Higher Education, Research & Innovation in Collaboration with Ministry of Health Targeting Attributes for Healthy Lifestyle based on the Serious Games and Multi-Attribute Decision Making- LaObes 1.0 Nurul Akhmal Binti Mohd Zulkefli OMR        9,070.00

1.3 Projects funded by Dhofar Municipality

Year Funding Institution Project Title Principal Investigator Approved Budget (OMR)
2022 Dhofar Municipality The impact of Parthenium weed spread on natural pastures of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman Mahad Shamaas OMR        20,000.00

  

  1. Completed projects:
Call No. Project type Project Title Project ID Principal Investigator Approved Budget (OMR) Mentor/Supervisor
2018 RG Development of Ultrasensitive CuO Based Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensors for Diabetes Monitoring BFP/RGP/HSS/18/122 Naikoo, Gowhar  OMR                                  5,000.00 NA
2018 RG Rural Women Entrepreneurship in Oman: Problems, Prospects and Sustainable Strategies. BFP/RGP/CBS/18/166 Ghouse, Suhail  OMR                                  4,900.00 NA
2018 RG Energy Efficient boil-off-gas reliquefaction process for carrier LNG BFP/RGP/EI/18/152 Khan, Muhammad  OMR                                  2,400.00 NA
2018 RG Basic-level and derived-level situation types: The case of lexical aspect in Mehri BFP/RGP/CBS/18/101 Ahmed, Amer  OMR                                  2,000.00 NA
2018 RG Green synthesis of important bio-products from local waste materials; Approaches to resolve environmental issues with positive economic impact BFP/RGP/EBR/18/106 Ul-Islam, Mazhar  OMR                                  4,000.00 NA
2018 RG Toward a Self-Organizing Traffic Control System Road Traffic Congestion Prediction and Resource Dispatching (RTCP-RD) BFP/RGP/ICT/18/119 Bouyahia, Zied  OMR                                  4,000.00 NA
2018 RG A national strategy based on family counseling techniques, to improve the skills of family service workers in dealing with the contemporary challenges of the Omani family BFP/RGP/EHR/18/131 Abdelrasheed, Nasser  OMR                                  4,275.00 NA
2019 RG Balancing act: The effect of task design on foreign language learners’ fluency and accuracy BFP/RGP/EHR/19/131 Lenchuk, Iryna  OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2019 RG An IoT-based Framework for Balancing Taxis Service Supply-Demand in the Context of a Smart City BFP/RGP/ICT/19/160 Haddad, Hedi  OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2019 RG An Emerging Averaging Algorithm to Upscale Fracture Systems of a Fractured Reservoir BFP/RGP/EI/19/197 Islam, Md Saiful  OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2019 RG Enabling End-Users to Protect their Privacy by themselves: Application to Smart Healthcare Cyber-Physical Environments (Acronym: uPrivacy) BFP/RGP/ICT/19/186 Alraja, Mansour  OMR                                12,000.00 NA
2019 RG A Proposed Program Based on Active Learning to Develop the Skills of Excellence and Creativity in Mathematics and Science among Students of Basic Education in Oman BFP/RGP/EHR/19/145 Elsayed, Abdelkader  OMR                                19,500.00 NA
2019 RG Development of a Topical Formulation for Bedsores from the Gum Resin of Omani Boswellia sacra BFP/RGP/CBS/19/303 Rashan, Luay  OMR                                  5,000.00 NA
2019 URG Decorated Copper based Nanoparticles for Anti-Colon Cancer Activity BFP/URG/HSS/19/099 Al Mashali, Fatema  OMR                                  1,500.00 Naikoo, Gowhar
2019 URG The Use of UAV in Disaster Management BFP/URG/ICT/19/120 Al Maashani, Fahad  OMR                                  1,500.00 Hasan, Najam Ul Hasan
2019 URG Synthesis of conductive bacterial cellulose composites for applications in optoelectronic devices BFP/URG/EBR/19/095 Bait-Ameer, Somiya Yasir Said  OMR                                  1,500.00 Ul-Islam, Mazhar
2019 URG Cross Cultural Education: A Key to Omani Student Learning Success BFP/URG/CBS/19/100 Al Meqbali, Al Anood  OMR                                  1,200.00 Abuiyada, Reem
2019 URG The impact of personality traits on career aspirations of business schools’ students in Oman BFP/URG/EHR/19/096 Safrar, Amira  OMR                                  1,500.00 Hamdoun, Mohamed
2020 RG Novel poly(m-aminophenol)/metal nanoparticles hybrid material based bio-sensor for health care applications and food quality assessment BFP/RGP/HSS/20/274 Ahmad, Mohammad Wasi  OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2020 RG Content evaluation of the Omani sciences textbooks of grades (1-8) in the light of TIMSS 2019 requirements BFP/RGP/EHR/20/235 Abdelkarim, Raed  OMR                                  9,320.00 NA
2020 RG Integrated Livestock Farming Approach and Socio-Economic Development of Sultanate of Oman BFP/RGP/EI/20/061 Sha, Nadia  OMR                                  5,100.00 NA
2020 RG Development of bacterial cellulose composite films for practical applications in wound healing and pollutant degradation BFP/RGP/EBR/20/261 Ul-Islam, Mazhar  OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2020 RG Anti Cancer Activity of Dhofar Medicinal Plants BFP/RGP/HSS/20/045 Rashan, Luay  OMR                                20,000.00 NA
2020 URG Ex-situ synthesis of bactericidal bacterial cellulose nanocomposites for potential wound healing applications BFP/URG/EBR/20/055 Tabook, Muna  OMR                                  1,500.00 Ul-Islam, Mazhar
2020 URG Blockchain Technology and Electronic Supply Chain Management (eSCM) BFP/URG/ICT/20/041 ALmarhoon, Fatima  OMR                                  1,500.00 ALraja, Mansour Naser Alraja
2020 URG Recycling of Coconut Shell and Plastic Waste as Coarse Aggregates in Concrete Formation BFP/URG/EBR/20/082 Ba Uwain, Al Mutasam Abdollah Ali  OMR                                  1,000.00 Ahmad, Mohammad Wasi
2020 URG Detection of Heavy Metals in Milk of Camel from Various Areas of Dhofar Region Through Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer BFP/URG/HSS/20/074 Batmira, Fatima Mohmmed  OMR                                  1,200.00 Ahmad, Mohammad Wasi
2020 URG Synthesis of Biodiesel from Fish Waste of Dhofar Region BFP/URG/EI/20/078 Tabouk, Mohammed Said  OMR                                  1,150.00 Ahmad, Mohammad Wasi
2020 URG The Impacts of Digital Economy on Monetary System of Oman: An Empirical Analysis BFP/URG/CBS/20/017 AL Maashni, Amina  OMR                                      800.00 AL-Shubairi, Faris