:: About Award

IACR pursues the following objectives

1. Identifying and introducing top talents in the field of culture and art research to strengthen the 'research culture';

2. Introducing and presenting the best works, theories, new methods, and projects in the field of culture and art among Iranian and non-Iranian thinkers and domestic and foreign scientific societies;

3. Encourage Iranian and foreign researchers and thinkers to conduct research in different dimensions of culture, art, communication, and the coordinates of Islamic civilization;

 4. Provision of favorable cultural conditions for the development and deepening of cultural research in Iran to encourage and guide young talents to study in this field;

5. Setting the groundwork for conducting applied cultural research related to the activities of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the cultural needs of society;

6. Identify and focus on the main cultural issues and harms in Iran to find solutions to overcome them;

7. Developing an approach to interdisciplinary and comparative studies in the fields of culture, art, communication, and the dimensions of modern Islamic civilization; and

8. Explain the importance, function, and influential role of cultural research in planning and local and national policies in different fields;

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is one of the significant policymakers and cultural institutions promoting research culture in Iran. The Ministry aims to promote cultural development and enhance the culture and values ​​of Iranian society, so this institution has always tried to recognize, preserve, and understand its cultural heritage. This Ministry monitors cultural research and studies annually to introduce them to organizations and executive bodies in Iran and to appreciate the researchers.

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Research Vice-Chancellor has been implementing the project 'Selecting Iran's Best Cultural Researches' as part of its cultural activities since 1996. Since 2001, the Research Institute of Culture, Art, and Communication (RICAC), affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, has followed up on this plan. To strengthen the 'research culture,' this research center encourages researchers to conduct systematic and local research. This support aims to produce data related to the cultural needs of Iranian society so that these data are available to cultural planners and policymakers. Another goal of this support is to evaluate Iran's capabilities in cultural research.

The continuous holding of the IACR by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has played an essential role in turning cultural research into a public agenda. Compared with other festivals in Iran, such as the Farabi Festival, which includes various humanities fields, IACR focuses only on cultural research.

'International Award on Cultural Research' is the only festival in Iran that exclusively examines and evaluates research conducted in Iranian culture and art, not necessarily cultural and artistic works. In addition, assessing the works of non-Iranian researchers in the field of 'Culture and Art of Iran' is one of its primary goals. Outside Iran, there are more than a dozen research and research centers in Iranian studies. IACR can identify and monitor these studies. In the area of cultural diplomacy, which is one of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance programs to expand international communication and exchange of culture and art, holding this festival can be used to develop cultural relations and diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Promoting the culture of research in the society of Iran is one of the reasons for the importance and necessity of holding a cultural research festival so that cultural research is conducted in a systematic, standardized, and sustainable way instead of being done in a sectional and random manner. Also, one of the goals is that research becomes the primary tool for improving knowledge, understanding issues, and finding solutions to problems related to the immediate needs of Iranian society. On the other hand, enhancing Iran's cultural environment and preventing parallel, scattered, and essential community needs is one of its other most important goals. 'Cultural Research Festival' can provide the basis for methodizing and making cultural research purposeful.

Fifteen rounds of Award on Cultural Research have been held so far.

Some distinguishing features of the International Award on Cultural Research are:

1. It is one of the requirements for ranking cultural and artistic activities in Iran.

2. This event is a scientific support for the programs and activities of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

3. IACR can provide a basis for identifying the approach of non-Iranian researchers to Iranian culture and art.