Research Authority

Research Authority's Fund at the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS) encourages and supports research and publications.

The fund awards research grants and encourages publication, on a variety of recognized academic platforms, of research studies conducted by faculty members. The fund is primarily designed to assist researchers in schools and departments that are unable to allocate research budgets, and aims to allow full-time researchers, who devote most of their time to that unit, to continue their research work in their field of academic endeavor.

In addition to the assistance in conducting research, the fund assists researchers in covering the costs of publishing articles and books that were accepted for publication by academic journals and publishing houses.

An appeal is published once every year, usually during the second semester.

The President of the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS) initiated the establishment of a mechanism for reducing teaching hours as a prize aimed at encouraging research. The goal is to encourage active researchers, who are employed in a full time job, by reducing 25% of the teaching load for a period of two years. At the end of the two year period, the researcher's eligibility for an additional encouragement period is examined.

the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS) is undergoing a transformation into a green campus, and therefore we have set ourselves a goal of encouraging teaching and research into issues related to the environment.

In order to assist and support lecturers wishing to integrate environmental aspects into their curriculum, COMAS' President has established a special fund that awards grants for two types of green courses:

• Integration of green content into existing courses
• Development of new courses dealing with environmental issues

The Research Authority is proud of the outstanding researchers operating within the framework of the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS), and actively works to support and encourage them.

Every year, outstanding researchers are selected by COMAS' President and the Head of the Research Authority based on recommendations by the heads of the academic units and in light of their research achievements over the past 3 years.

Outstanding researchers lead COMAS' research efforts, contribute to increased awareness in the academic community in Israel to our research activities, and reinforce COMAS' standing as a leading institution of higher education in Israel.

We thank the outstanding researchers for their efforts, and are proud of their achievements.

Every year, the Research Authority organizes a research and projects day in which faculty members engaged in research at the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS) present the projects they wish to advance.

The research and projects day is open to all students, College lecturers and the general public.

The role of the Research Ethics Committee at the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS) is to ensure compliance with ethical rules in research studies that involve humans.

No research involving humans will be conducted at any research level without the advanced written approval of the committee, subject to the committee's regulations and its guidelines.

The researcher, research proposer or student's research supervisor will contact the chairperson of the committee in writing with a request for approval.

The committee will review the research proposal according to accepted ethical principles, including minimizing the risks and discomfort of participants in the study as well as their proper treatment, including protecting their wellbeing, dignity and rights, respecting their privacy as well as informed consent.

In any case, even after obtaining approval from the committee for conducting the research, the researcher bears full responsibility for adhering to ethical principles in the study, especially in all matters related to ethical treatment of the study's participants.