TEHRAN – Iran’s Sharif University of Technology and Portugal’s Taguspark have explored avenues to promote scientific and technological cooperation between the 2 establishments.
The govt director of Taguspark, Eduardo Baptista Correia, paid a go to on Sunday to Sharif University’s know-how heart to change into accustomed to the college’s actions and capacities, in addition to its know-how and innovation ecosystem, ISNA reported.
Highlighting the capabilities and function of Taguspark within the improvement of science, know-how, and innovation in Portugal, the official expounded on the actions of the accelerators, the home and worldwide firms primarily based on the park, in addition to their financial impacts.
For their half, Sharif University officers elaborated on the event of the college’s science and know-how park over the previous twenty years, in addition to instructional, analysis, and worldwide capacities of the college for the growth of collaborations between the 2 know-how parks.
They additionally proposed establishing collaboration networks, exchanging experiences, and fostering cooperation between accelerators and knowledge-based firms of the 2 sides.
Both events agreed to comply with up on mentioned points by way of holding conferences, reciprocal visits, and creating future cooperation applications.
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 (often called TETZ 2026), highlighting the nation’s excessive scientific and analysis capacities regardless of sanctions.
“Despite illegal sanctions, Iran secures first place in cognitive sciences among Islamic nations and ranks ninth globally in advanced materials. Numerous prestigious Iranian universities and institutions are included in international rankings. These accomplishments underscore the country’s scientific capabilities,” IRIB quoted Simaei-Sarraf as saying, addressing the TETZ, held in Istanbul from June 26 to 28.
Iran serves as an awesome alternative to spend money on greater schooling and fashionable applied sciences. The nation has one of many largest greater schooling programs within the area, with greater than three million college students and over seventy thousand school members and researchers, he added.
Highlighting that the fast improvement of rising applied sciences, together with AI, is essentially remodeling human relationships and better schooling programs world wide at an unprecedented tempo, Simaei-Sarraf mentioned 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 way in which to promote social belief, facilitate using good schooling, 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 schooling requires the enhancement of synergy, the trade of experience, and the utilization of shared capacities of nations greater than ever. He expressed hope that the summit would lay the idea for the growth of educational ties, the trade of information, and the event of collaborative initiatives within the good schooling sector, which might in flip increase greater schooling at nationwide, regional, and international scales.
The Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology in cooperation with the Vice Presidency for Science, Technology, and Knowledge-Based Economy, developed an motion plan for synthetic intelligence (AI), which highlights the pivotal function of AI within the nation’s scientific development, IRNA reported.
The motion plan was unveiled throughout a gathering held on December 3, 2025, with the presence of First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Aref.
The fundamental pillars of the motion plan embody ‘transformation in education and training human resources, ‘empowering research and innovation capacity building’, ‘promoting and commercializing AI’, ‘expanding science diplomacy and international cooperation’, and ‘improving the scientific status of the country’.
Empowering analysis and innovation capability constructing includes the institution of 5 nationwide laboratories in chosen universities, improvement of interdisciplinary majors at post-graduate applications specializing in AI, the inclusion of ‘AI and digital transformation’ for undergraduate college students, important for engineering majors, and supplementary for different majors.
Promoting and commercializing AI focuses on deciding on and supporting plenty of universities because the nation’s AI analysis and improvement heart. Supporting the event of at the very least 3 elementary AI fashions (together with language imaginative and prescient fashions) primarily based on home knowledge, and launching a platform to acquire and share analysis and academic knowledge securely.
Expanding science diplomacy and worldwide cooperation highlights expediting the formation and progress of AI startups and holding AI competitions.
Expanding science diplomacy and worldwide cooperation includes enhancing instructional and analysis collaborations with high universities from Shanghai and BRICS member states, in addition to members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Cooperation on AI rules, standardization, and collaboration with Iranian elites and specialists residing overseas are amongst different objectives.
Improving the scientific standing of the nation underlines sustaining and enhancing the nation’s worldwide rating in AI, indexing at the very least 8 specialised journals within the first and second quartiles, growing assist for high researchers and patents, in addition to strengthening scientific associations and nationwide AI networking.
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