TEHRAN – The second scientific conference between Iran and Russia was held in Moscow on Monday, with Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali; science attaché, Hadi Goudarzi, and representatives from universities and scientific establishments of the 2 nations in attendance.
Referring to Iran’s distinctive historical past and the civilizational commonalities between the 2 nations, Russian Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko emphasised the necessity to strengthen cultural and educational relations between Iran and Russia, msrt.ir reported..
“The Russian government is completely ready to promote collaborations with Iran in the science and technology sectors. Russia and Iran need to rely on their capabilities in the pursuit of global development and play their historical role,” he famous.
Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Denis Sergeevich Sekirinsky, for his half, mentioned the 2 nations have their very own distinguished civilizations, sustaining cultural traditions and religious worth. These historic commonalities have resulted in mutual respect and belief, in addition to fostering cooperation.
Iranian and Russian universities and analysis organisations signed over 70 memoranda of understanding (MOUs) simply over the previous 12 months, he famous.
For his half, Jalali highlighted the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Iran and Russia and emphasised the necessity to increase ties in scientific, technical, and cultural fields.
Independent nations like Iran and Russia ought to pursue the trail to realizing a extra simply world by way of mental, historic, and cultural cooperation; in the meantime, scientific and elite dialogues will play a elementary position, he added.
During the assembly, the 2 sides underlined growing cooperation between the schools of the 2 nations, memoranda of understanding, BRICS scientific initiatives, the trade of professors and college students, and mutual recognition of {qualifications}.
The conference included specialised conferences resembling ‘Iran and Russia: from centuries of history to dialogue of civilizations’, and ‘synergy of knowledge and economy: new horizons of cooperation between Iran and Russia’.
The first scientific conference was held in 2022. The occasion is meant to make nice strides in deepening scientific relations, bolstering joint analysis, and increasing scientific and civilizational talks.
Strengthening scientific relations
During a gathering held between Iranian and Russian officers in November, the 2 sides explored avenues to increase scientific and technological collaborations between the schools of the 2 nations.
Masoud Shams-Bakhsh, deputy minister of science, analysis and know-how, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Pankin Aleksandr Anatolievitch, met on the sidelines of the forty third Session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference being held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from October 30 to November 13, IRIB reported.
During the assembly, they underscored fostering joint efforts in numerous fields like rising applied sciences, primary sciences, engineering, area know-how, synthetic intelligence, transportation, vitality, setting, earth sciences, oceanography, well being, and drugs.
Teaching Persian and Russian languages in reciprocal nations, exchanging professors and college students, and boosting interactions between class 2 institutes and centres below the auspices of UNESCO, inventive cities, and studying cities have been amongst different areas of dialogue.
In October, the Iran International Innovation Zone and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to reinforce technological collaboration.
A Russian delegation led by Dmitry Kurochkin, Vice President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, visited the Iran International Innovation Zone in Tehran on October 23 to develop into extra aware of the capabilities of Iranian knowledge-based firms, IRNA reported.
During the assembly, Hamed Bahari-far, an official with Pardis Technology Park, offered an account of the missions, applications, and achievements of the International Innovation Zone. Introducing the broad capacities of the science and know-how parks, the official highlighted the significance of selling worldwide cooperation in enhancing the export of the knowledge-based merchandise.
For his half, Kurochkin mentioned the Iran International Innovation Zone is a lovely and dynamic advanced.
Following visits to firms and know-how parks, he famous that there’s a very broad potential for cooperation between the 2 nations; “we are interested in using all regional avenues to develop these relations,” Kurochkin mentioned.
The official went on to say that the collaborations between Iran and Russia, whether or not by way of bilateral relations or worldwide agreements resembling BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), will contribute to the event of know-how commerce between the 2 nations.
The officers additionally mentioned methods to expedite know-how exports, monetary and banking exchanges, in addition to methods to profit from the capability of regional agreements resembling BRICS and the SCO.
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