TEHRAN – Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, and Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, have explored the potential to broaden scientific and educational collaborations.
The officers met on Thursday, on the sidelines of the sixth Meeting of Science Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Islamabad, IRNA reported.
The discussions targeted on strengthening ties by granting reciprocal scholarships, exchanging postgraduate college students and researchers, and collaborating to deal with shared challenges comparable to local weather change.
Iranian official lauded Pakistan’s help for the nation in the course of the current US-Israeli struggle. Referring to the non secular, cultural, historic, and geographical commonalities between the 2 nations, Simaei-Sarraf expressed hope that this go to would mark the start of a major section in increasing educational interactions and ties between Iran and Pakistan.
The official expounded on the capacities and capabilities of Iranian universities, analysis facilities, and science and know-how parks, as nicely.
For his half, Maqbool Siddiqui emphasised brotherhood between the 2 nations. “Now that the recent critical situation has further strengthened ties between Pakistan and Iran, we should deepen cooperation in different sectors,” he added.
‘Islamabad is dedicated to growing sci-tech diplomacy with Tehran’
Meeting Iranian delegation on Tuesday, Maqbool Siddiqui highlighted the importance of bilateral ties between Iran and Pakistan, noting that Islamabad is dedicated to boosting scientific and technological diplomacy with Tehran.
Their discussions primarily targeted on enhancing cooperation in trainer schooling, curriculum growth, digital schooling, synthetic intelligence, academic know-how, technical and vocational schooling, joint analysis initiatives, and exchanging professors and college students.
They additionally expressed satisfaction over the profitable implementation of present Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) between Pakistani and Iranian increased schooling establishments, together with the National University of Modern Languages (NUML). They additionally inspired related collaborations amongst different universities and analysis organizations.
Promoting joint analysis tasks, conducting educational conferences, growing innovation partnerships, and granting scholarship alternatives to strengthen educational ties and facilitate the alternate of information and experience have been amongst different mentioned points.
Siddiqui highlighted that Pakistan is dedicated to implementing choices made on schooling in the course of the joint fee with Iran, and transferring the shared imaginative and prescient of each nations into significant sensible outcomes.
He famous that longstanding brotherly relations between Iran and Pakistan act as a key issue for sustained institutional interplay in addressing shared academic challenges and enhancing scientific growth.
For his half, Simaei-Sarraf stated that increasing cooperation between the upper schooling and scientific establishments of the 2 nations would additional deepen relations and contribute to regional growth by way of innovation, analysis, and educational collaboration.
The two sides agreed to preserve shut coordination between their respective ministries and scientific-technological establishments, and to explore new avenues of cooperation aimed toward strengthening public ties, enhancing educational collaboration, and fostering sustainable growth by way of schooling, science, and analysis.
The science minister attended the Board of Trustees (BoT) assembly of the ECO Science Foundation on the sixth ECO ministerial assembly.
The occasion introduced collectively ministers, eminent scientists and senior officers from ECO Member States for deliberations on advancing Science, Technology, and Innovation in addition to for mobilizing assets for transformative regional tasks aimed toward addressing the shared developmental challenges of the ECO area.
The sixth BoT Meeting addressed a complete agenda, encompassing mission progress, monetary oversight, and organizational restructuring. The Board performed an in depth evaluation of implementation of the earlier BoT Meeting’s choices and gave its approval to the work plan for the upcoming yr, reinforcing the institute’s operational continuity.
The election of the following president of the ECO Science Foundation was additionally on the agenda. The basis is at present headed by Komeil Tayyebi from Iran.
As a part of his three-day go to, Simaei-Sarraf held a gathering with Pakistan’s minister of science and know-how and the chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), go to a number of main universities in Islamabad, tour the ECO Science Foundation, and held discussions with professors of the Persian language.
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