TEHRAN – The head of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology’s heart for worldwide scientific cooperation, Ehsan Qaboul, and the top of the Egyptian Interests Section in Tehran, Mohammed Zia, have mentioned avenues to develop academic, scientific, and technological cooperation between the 2 nations.
The officers met in Tehran on Wednesday, IRNA reported.
Underscoring Iran’s achievements in numerous technological and scientific sectors, Qaboul mentioned fostering tutorial interactions between Iran and Egypt is a strategic measure to additional the scientific capacities of the 2 nations within the worldwide area.
Expanding literary and linguistic ties by exchanging professors will contribute to the event of scientific interactions between Iranian and Egyptian universities, granting reciprocal scholarships, and exchanging college students will play a key position in selling scientific, cultural, and human collaborations, Qaboul additional famous.
The Egyptian official, for his half, welcomed the concept of enhancing scientific cooperation between the 2 nations, highlighting the event of constructive relationships between Iran and Egypt.
Referring to a gathering held between Iranian Science Minister Hossein Simaei-Sarraf and the Egyptian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Mohamed Ayman Ashour, on the sidelines of the forty third Session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from October 30 to November 13, 2025, the official expressed hope that the 2 ministers would maintain official conferences to develop joint academic applications.
Iran ranks 72 in expertise, innovation
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Technology and Innovation Report 2025, Iran is ranked amongst higher middle-income nations, rating 72nd amongst 166 nations.
The nation’s rating has improved by one place in contrast to 2022.
UNCTAD has categorized 17 forms of applied sciences as frontier applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, Internet of Things, huge knowledge, 5G, 3D printing, robotics, drone expertise, photo voltaic photovoltaic, concentrated solar energy, biofuels, biogas and biomass, wind power, inexperienced hydrogen, electrical autos, nanotechnology, and gene enhancing.
The Technology and Innovation Report 2025: Inclusive Artificial Intelligence for Development surveys the complicated synthetic intelligence panorama, aiming to assist decision-makers design science, expertise, and innovation insurance policies that foster inclusive technological progress.
The Report 2025 requires AI that places individuals first and is formed by international cooperation wherein all nations have a say. The Report identifies three key leverage factors – infrastructure, knowledge, and abilities – providing a broad socioeconomic perspective on AI whereas analyzing necessities and insurance policies to promote sustainable industrialization and innovation.
The sub-indices of readiness for frontier applied sciences in 2025 present that Iran’s greatest rating is within the analysis and improvement sub-index (thirty fifth on this planet).
In the finance sub-index, the nation’s rating has improved from 62 in 2022 to 56 in 2025. In different sub-indexes like abilities and the institution of knowledge and communication expertise, its rating has lowered from 74 and 78 in 2022 to 82 and 94 in 2025, respectively.
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