TEHRAN – Iran and Turkey are planning to set up a joint innovation center and outline a sustainable enterprise mannequin, an official with the Ministry of Science has stated.
In line with the implementation of mega-tech tasks, the 2 nations have developed 9 know-how tasks to implement collectively, IRNA quoted Mohammad-Nabi Shahiki as saying.
The official made the remarks in a gathering held on Monday to plan the Iran-Turkey Science and Technology Week.
Highlighting the position of science and know-how parks within the enlargement of worldwide cooperation, Shahiki stated the primary goal is to transition from tutorial collaboration in the direction of the event of a synergistic community comprising analysis institutes, know-how parks, and universities to conduct joint tasks in training, analysis, and know-how fields and generate shared strategic outcomes for each events.
According to the pinnacle of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology’s center for worldwide scientific cooperation, Ehsan Qaboul, Iran-Turkey Science and Technology Week is scheduled to be held in Urmia, West Azarbaijan province, and Tabriz, East Azarbaijan, within the second month of the autumn, snn.ir reported.
In February, Qaboul and Turkish ambassador to Tehran, Hicabi Kirlangic, explored the capacities, challenges, and future views for the enlargement of scientific, analysis, and academic cooperation between Iran and Turkey, msrt.ir reported.
The two sides agreed to enhance science diplomacy by organizing an Iran-Turkey science week, holding recurrent conferences of the perfect universities, creating joint scientific tasks, and establishing science and know-how parks, significantly in border areas.
During the assembly, Qaboul stated, “Our main objective is to develop a joint scientific ecosystem that encompasses everything from higher education to applied research and modern technologies.”
Supervising joint dissertations was the opposite problem raised by the official, noting that Persian and Turkish college students may also help tackle widespread issues between the 2 nations, conduct collaborative analysis tasks, and in the end enhance the scientific standing of Iranian and Turkish universities in worldwide rankings.
The official additionally proposed exchanging college students, granting scholarships, providing joint scientific calls on shared environmental, technological, and industrial points, and creating joint curricula to strengthen cultural hyperlinks and localize training.
Highlighting the capacities of medical universities within the nation, Iranian officers introduced their readiness to appeal to extra Turkish college students. Currently, greater than 130 Turkish college students are majoring in medical fields in Iran.
For his half, Kirlangic emphasised the necessity to tackle issues associated to issuing visas and equal certificates, saying that establishing clear mechanisms will enhance confidence amongst college students and their households.
Iran’s excessive scientific capability
In June, Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, delivered a speech on the seventh Turkey Educational Technologies Summit (referred to as TETZ 2026), highlighting the nation’s excessive scientific and analysis capacities regardless of sanctions.
Despite unlawful sanctions, Iran secures first place in cognitive sciences amongst Islamic nations and ranks ninth globally in superior supplies. Numerous prestigious Iranian universities and establishments are included in worldwide rankings. These accomplishments underscore the nation’s scientific capabilities, IRIB quoted Simaei-Sarraf as saying, addressing the TETZ, held in Istanbul from June 26 to 28.
Iran serves as an important alternative to put money into greater training and fashionable applied sciences. The nation has one of many largest greater training techniques within the area, with greater than three million college students and over seventy thousand college members and researchers.
Highlighting that the fast improvement of rising applied sciences, together with AI, is basically reworking human relationships and better training techniques around the globe at an unprecedented tempo, Simaei-Sarraf stated that efficient use of good applied sciences requires the institution of a system primarily based on algorithmic transparency, instructional justice, accountability, safety of learners’ rights, and accountable knowledge governance.
According to science minister, cultural and social necessities want to be institutionalized within the design and deployment of those applied sciences, which can assist pave the best way to promote social belief, facilitate the usage of good training, and its acceptance with out posing knowledge governance dangers at nationwide and worldwide ranges.
The official went on to say that the event of good training requires the enhancement of synergy, the alternate of experience, and the utilization of shared capacities of nations greater than ever. He expressed hope that the summit would lay the premise for the enlargement of educational ties, the alternate of data, and the event of collaborative initiatives within the good training sector, which might in flip develop greater training at nationwide, regional, and world scales.
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