RIYADH - His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Human Capacity Development Program Committee - may God protect him - launched today, Monday 4 Shaaban 1443 AH corresponding to March 7, 2022 AD, the strategy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program, which It represents a new stage for scholarships that contributes to enhancing the competitiveness of citizens by raising the efficiency of human capital in new and promising sectors.

The Human Capacity Development Program Committee has also worked on developing the strategy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program in cooperation with a number of relevant authorities, represented in several tracks designed in line with the priorities of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, its executive programs, and the needs of the renewable and accelerating labor market.

The strategy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program includes three strategic pillars. The first pillar is to focus on awareness and preparation for scholarships to highlight the importance of qualifying scholarship students to start early planning for their scientific and practical journey in international universities according to different fields. The second pillar is concerned with developing scholarship pathways and programs and aims to: Enhancing the Kingdom’s competitiveness locally and internationally through scholarships for the paths required by the local and global labor market in the best educational institutions according to international classifications. The third pillar is the follow-up and subsequent care of scholarships through guidance and development of services provided to them in order to enhance their readiness to engage in the labor market or institutions Research inside and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And

The strategy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques scholarship program comes with four tracks. Each of these tracks has clear and specific goals that it is working to achieve. The “Pioneers” track aims to send students to the top 30 educational institutions in the world according to the classifications of internationally accredited universities in all disciplines, which contributes to empowering scholarship students. The Saudis are distinguished and globally competitive in all fields.

While the (Research and Development) track, which is one of the most important tracks to enable the research and innovation system, focuses on sending graduate students to the best institutes and universities around the world, achieving qualification and empowerment to graduate future scientists.

The (Imdad) track also works to meet the needs of the labor market in specific disciplines that are periodically updated through scholarships to the best 200 universities to ensure that the labor market is equipped with the required competencies.

The last of these tracks is the (Promising) track, which aims to send students in promising sectors and fields according to the national requirements for major projects and promising sectors, by training scholarship students in the best international programs and academies to provide sectors with globally qualified human capabilities in promising sectors such as industry, tourism and others of sectors.

The launch of this strategy comes as a continuation of the efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to raise the readiness of citizens to prepare for the future and enhance their competition globally. The application for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques scholarship program with its promising paths will be through the Safir platform of the Ministry of Education.