GPSSA announces the launch of the Scientific Research Award for the civil pension and social insurance institutions of the GCC

GPSSA announces the launch of the Scientific Research Award for the civil pension and social insurance institutions of the GCC

Abu Dhabi:  The Social Protection Fund, in cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, launched the first edition of the Scientific Research Award for Civil Retirement and Social Insurance Institutions in the GCC region in Oman this year, announced the General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA). The award, supervised by the Social Protection Fund in Oman organized every two years, aims to uncover the most prominent challenges facing civil pension and social insurance institutions in the GCC, in addition to enhancing the culture of pension and social insurance through creating research platforms and presenting fields related to scientific competencies in the GCC. The Scientific Research Award aims to motivate young people, researchers, scholars, and those with qualifications to provide practical solutions to issues by conducting analytical research that evaluates GCC experiences at the level of pension systems, while examining the most important challenges, risks, and improvement opportunities to enrich the present and future. Additionally, the initiative will further support scientific research in the field of social protection, provide a platform for researchers across the GCC region to study the most important contemporary issues and challenges in fields related to the