TEHRAN – Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, has put ahead three proposals to improve tutorial, analysis, and technological collaborations among the many universities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states.
“Universities are custodians of shaping the future of societies. Today, they are faced with different challenges like revising curricula, making research projects applicable, making theses and research studies more useful to the societies. SCO can serve as a platform for member states to boost their academic capacities through an executive and problem-based network,” IRNA quoted Simaei-Sarraf as saying.
The official made the remarks whereas addressing the tenth assembly of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Education Ministers, which occurred in Minsk, Belarus, on June 16 and 17. A delegation led by the science minister attended the assembly.
To promote scientific cooperation amongst member states, the science minister supplied three proposals. The first one centered on ‘exchanging elites and scholars’. Accordingly, Iran is prepared to grant 100 scholarships to post-graduate and Ph.D. college students, and 10 extra to post-doctoral researchers of SCO member states to do analysis on the true issues within the area below the supervision of professors.
The institution of the ‘Shanghai technological and innovative universities network’ with the assistance of main universities and know-how parks was the second supplied suggestion. According to Simaei-Sarraf, this community would supply the bottom for commercializing scientific achievements and strengthening connections between universities and trade. He additionally introduced Iran’s readiness to host its secretariat.
The ‘development of a collaborative research consortia in smart management of natural resources, particularly water, artificial intelligence, and modern pharmaceutical technologies’ was the third proposal, which is predicted to be an efficient technique to enhance the scientific capacities of SCO member states.
The science minister went on to say that the colleges are usually not merely the facilities of training, however they need to be the usual bearers of rationality, entrepreneurship, hope, and worldwide scientific cooperation.
The high universities of Iran, with all their laboratory capacities, progress facilities, and scientific capabilities, can be there to implement these packages in cooperation with the colleges of the SCO member states.
In his first speech on the tenth assembly, Simaei-Sarraf mentioned that attacking universities is a crossing of pink traces, highlighting that many universities and academic facilities within the nation had been focused by the United States and Israel in the course of the latest battle.
When a college is focused, in truth, one of the genuine facilities of tradition and civilization is attacked, and the hurt is directed on the whole scientific neighborhood of the world, msrt.ir quoted Simaei-Sarraf as saying.
Elaborating on the US-Israeli navy assaults on Iran, destruction, and assassinations of Iranian universities and scientists prior to now 12 months, he emphasised that universities needs to be protected havens for thought, dialogue, and hope, fairly than victims of conflicts.
The official raised a query, asking contributors, “Will the international community allow the most authentic centers of civilization to fall victim to violence?”, and urged the worldwide scientific neighborhood and worldwide organizations to undertake a clearer, extra accountable, and decisive stance in defending the safety of universities, scientists, and scientific facilities.
Silence within the face of those aggressions will lead to fixed violence in opposition to science and civilization, he added.
Referring to transboundary challenges similar to local weather change, water and vitality disaster, meals safety, and developments in synthetic intelligence (AI), he pressured that cohesive scientific cooperation is vital for the way forward for mankind.
The official went on to spotlight the distinctive, civilizational and tutorial capacities of the SCO member states in AI, primary sciences, superior supplies, and public well being, and emphasised the necessity to remodel these numerous benefits right into a community of cooperation, noting the colleges’ success sooner or later won’t solely be measured by the manufacturing of pure information, however their impacts on the standard of individuals’s lives.
The official went on to suggest that SCO grow to be a profitable mannequin of problem-based convergence during which information is a bridge between nations and an element for sustainable improvement, prosperity, and constructing a safer and extra humane future.
Hosting greater than 30 representatives of SCO member states, together with ministers of training and their deputies, college rectors, and officers from related businesses, the tenth assembly aimed to improve multilateral scientific and technological cooperation amongst SCO member states.
Belarusian Education Minister, Andrey Ivanets, held a gathering with Simaei-Sarraf. The official hoped the assembly would lay the bottom for the enlargement of scientific and technological cooperation between the 2 international locations.
The Iranian minister, for his half, highlighted the strategic standing of the SCO and known as for the enhancement of collaborations amongst member states within the know-how sector to meet the shared wants of every nation.
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