TEHRAN – Amirkabir University of Technology and Iraq University of Technology have agreed to improve collaborations in the sphere of environment, in addition to mechanical and electrical engineering, power, and biomedical sectors.
A delegation of Iraqi officers from University of Technology in Baghdad paid a go to to Amirkabir University of Technology. The two sides agreed to develop a joint working group, maintain joint instructional programs, and supply sabbatical leaves. Also, outstanding professors from Amirkabir University will ship lectures in scientific occasions that shall be held on the University of Technology in Baghdad, IRNA reported.
The Iraqi delegation additionally visited the science and know-how park on the college, in addition to some knowledge-based firms.
Following these conferences, the 2 sides proposed fostering cooperation via organizing joint scientific and technological occasions akin to AUT-Talk, Startup Weekend, and Idea Bazaar, with the participation of industrialists, professors, college students, firms, and traders.
On the second day of their go to, the talks targeted on establishing analysis facilities in areas akin to fantastic mud, power, environment, and water sources, in addition to the necessity to direct cooperation in the direction of utilized and industrial initiatives.
Developing joint scientific teams, initiating particular analysis actions with monetary help from each side, and boosting cooperation in the biomedical area, holding short-term instructional applications, joint sport occasions, growing and equipping laboratories, in addition to collaborative educating have been amongst different agreements reached.
The created working teams will observe up on the reached agreements on-line and in particular person and lay the idea for implementing these applications.
Iraq seeks to profit from Iranian tutorial capacities
In August, Haider Abd Dahed, the Iraqi deputy minister of upper training and scientific analysis, travelled to Iran to foster scientific relations between the 2 nations.
The head of the Organization of Student Affairs, Saeed Habiba, welcomed the Iraqi official to the nation, IRIB reported.
Dahed held conferences with the Iranian science minister and his deputies. He additionally paid visits to some universities and better training facilities. Signing a memorandum of understanding with Habiba was on the agenda.
In September, Dahed mentioned his nation is in sending gifted college students to examine in Iran’s high state universities.
“We are optimistic to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to realize this goal,” IRNA quoted Dahed as saying.
The official made the remarks in a gathering with Habiba.
Referring to Iranian universities’ positions in worldwide rankings, Dahed mentioned the standard of training and the tutorial diploma are actually vital for us. Iraqi college students begin majoring in medical fields, however in accordance to the legislation, they’ve to return to Iraq after a 12 months. We need this drawback to be solved in order that Iraqi college students can profit from the academic alternative to full their programs right here in Iran.
For his half, Habiba highlighted the cultural, spiritual, and historic commonalities between the 2 nations, which may lay the bottom for the enhancement of scientific and academic cooperation. Referring to the nation’s five-year plan, the official mentioned, “We look forward to attracting the best Iraqi students to study here, and we will not ignore their educational weaknesses even if it leads to their expulsion.”
Currently, 30,000 Iraqi college students are majoring primarily in engineering and medical area majors, in completely different universities of the nation; a big proportion of them are postgraduates.
The official went on to suggest exchanging professors and college students to additional the collaborations between the 2 nations.
On September 1, Dahed met Science Minister Hossein Simaei-Sarraf. The official agreed to signal an MOU in accordance to which Iran will grant scholarships to high Iraqi college students to examine in the perfect Iranian universities.
He had additionally paid visits to some universities and better training facilities, and signed MOUs with Shahid Beheshti University and Sharif University of Technology, saorg.ir reported.
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