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Sultan qaboos award for culture, arts and literature.
Description of the policy/measure
The main featur of the meeasure is supporting cultural, artistic and literary fields considering it as a way to promote cultural and human progress, contribute to the movement of scientific development and enrichment of the intellectual. it aims to consolidate accumulated knowledge process, instill authentic values and pass it to the younger generations; by providing fertile environment based on cognitive and intellectual competing, honoring intellectuals, artists and writers on their civilizational contributions in the renewal of thought and upgrading human conscience. it confirms the past, present and future omani contribution; in supplying the human civilization by physical, intellectual and cognitive achievements.award value:first: the winner of sultan qaboos award for culture, arts and literature gets sultan qaboos badge of culture, science, arts and literature, as well as a financial amount of one hundred thousand ro (100.000).second: the winner of sultan qaboos award for culture, arts and literature gets the order of merit for culture, science, arts and literature, as well as a financial amount of fifty thousand ro (50.000). the award covered the following fields (2012-2015):yearaward fieldscultureartsliterature2012historical studiesdrawing and paintingshort stories2013contemporaneous cerebrationmusiceloquent poetry2014educational studiesphotographystage production2015arabic language studiescalligraphychildren's literature
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Area(s) of Monitoring
Results achieved
The results expected through the implementation of the measure are:1. the emergence of ideas working to find creative environment.2. publish creations of omani writers.3. increase the number of writers and poets at the local level.4. raise the spirit of creative competition among members of the community.5. increase cognitive and intellectual creativity competition in the areas of the award.6. consider cultural, artistic and literary areas at high levels in the sultanate.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
The financial support is provided by royal court affairs.