The Role of the Scientific Endowment in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

Abstract

The researcher aimed by this scientific paper to try to define the role played by a number of Universal and Saudi university endowments in achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations by identifying the goals and reality of these endowments, with some future proposals to enhance this role played by university endowments in achieving sustainable development goals. In order to achieve the goals of this paper, the Researcher used has used both deductive approach and descriptive approach in the style of documentary studies. The results and future proposals that have been reached to enhance the role that universities endowments can play in achieving sustainable development goals include the following: Since, university endowments are one of the important strategic options for achieving sustainable development goals; then, work shall be done in order to expand the establishment and revitalization of university endowments, and activate its role, as an urgent necessity and not as an option only, to be a tributary to spending on scientific research, scholarships, achievement of scientific and technological progress, and support of projects and industries that lead to sustainable scientific, cultural, social and economic development; that is through professional marketing that attracts relevant parties to establish, support and develop endowments, while spreading the culture of donation, as is the case with the international universities that are leaders and pioneers in the field of their endowments, in addition to caring out awareness educational and cultural campaigns to introduce the university endowment and its importance through schools, universities, mosques "Masjids", and various means of media, and for universities to adopt carrying out awareness cultural and educational campaigns, workshops, lectures, seminars, forums, and conferences that discuss and highlight the role of the university endowment in supporting the building and establishing of the knowledge society in terms of production, employment, exploitation, publishing and dissemination, and its role in achieving sustainable development goals, provided that these awareness cultural and educational campaigns, workshops, lectures, seminars, forums, and conferences to be directed to members of the educational and administrative staff, current students, alumni and graduate students, companies and private institutions, banks, and businessmen, with the aim of supporting and developing endowment assets; this is in order to enhance social responsibility, while raising awareness of the public opinion about the benefits of university endowments in terms of the achievement of sustainable development goals, and for the future of all societies.