Az-Zubair Prize for Innovation and Scientific Excellence is an annual Sudanese scientific prize awarded by the President of Sudan for scientific innovation and creativity in applied and technological fields.

History

On November 7, 1998, President Omer Al-Bashir passed a bill to establish an annual scientific award for innovation and scientific excellence that commemorate General Az-Zubair Mohammed Salih, former Sudan's vice president who died in an aeroplane crash. The award is governed by the Association for the Promotion of Scientific Innovation (APSI), a specialized organization that was established by General Az-Zubair for sponsoring technological advances and scientific research.

Prize types

The prize is divided onto two major levels:

• Special Honorary Prize - awarded for individuals whom had great distinctive works and great scientific position that majorly contributed to the society.

• Competitors level is divided onto three sub-categories:
  • Scientific level - open to higher ceritificate holders and researchers
  • Youth level - open to students and graduates of universities and higher institutions
  • Talented level - open to anyone that presents valuable and empirical invention or creative work that reflects talent and excellence and has a great value for the society

Prize fields

The general fields of the Az-Zubair Prize are:

• Islamic Studies
  Islamic studies
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• Medical and Health Sciences
• Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
• Computer Science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
   and Information Technology
  Information technology
  Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
  
  
• Agriculture
  Agriculture
  Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
  
  
• Veterinary and Animal
  Animal
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   production.
• Economics
  Economics
  Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
  
   and Administrative Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Liberal Arts
  Liberal arts
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• Behavioural sciences
  Behavioural sciences
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Award

The prize award is composed of:

• A medallion of science, awarded by the President of Sudan
• Scientific patent
  Patent
  A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
  
   bearing the name of the winner and abstract for winning
• Monetary award of SDD
  Sudanese dinar
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  20 million Sudanese dinar (equivalent to $90,000) distributed among the winners