TEHRAN – During a gathering held between Iranian and Russian officers, the 2 sides explored avenues to increase scientific and technological collaborations between the colleges of the 2 nations.
Masoud Shams-Bakhsh, deputy minister of science, analysis and expertise, 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 expertise, synthetic intelligence, transportation, power, atmosphere, 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 underneath the auspices of UNESCO, inventive cities, and studying cities have been amongst different areas of debate.
An Iranian delegation led by the Science Minister Hossein Simaei-Sarraf is collaborating within the forty third Session of the UNESCO General Conference.
Every two years, the UNESCO General Conference convenes to find out the insurance policies and main strains of labor for the approaching years. This is the primary time the session shouldn’t be held in Paris.
According to Simaei-Sarraf, the principle goal is to develop and strengthen scientific cooperation between Iran and the collaborating nations, IRIB reported. The session is centered round larger training in emergencies, ethics, and applied sciences, larger training, and abilities growth, and coaching.
Iran has a number of expertise and data in these fields, which it would share with different nations, Simaei-Sarraf mentioned.
The essential goal of upper training in Iran is to advertise science diplomacy and to have lively participation in fields resembling training, tradition, science, civilization, and historical past chairs, the official additional famous.
He expressed hope that participation within the session would result in bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
MOU on expertise
In October, the Iran International Innovation Zone and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to boost 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 corporations, 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 expertise 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 beautiful and dynamic complicated.
Following visits to corporations and expertise 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 via bilateral relations or worldwide agreements resembling BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), will contribute to the event of expertise commerce between the 2 nations.
The officers additionally mentioned methods to expedite expertise exports, monetary and banking exchanges, in addition to methods to learn from the capability of regional agreements resembling BRICS and the SCO.
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