TEHRAN – Iranian and Polish officers have highlighted the significance of boosting scientific, analysis, and technological cooperation between the 2 international locations.
During a gathering held on Tuesday, Science Minister Hossein Simaei-Sarraf and Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, Marcin Kulasek, agreed to revive scientific and technological agreements.
The officers met on the sidelines of the twenty second annual assembly of the Science and Technology Society (STS) discussion board, held in Kyoto, Japan, from October 5 to 7.
Also, the 2 officers exchanged invites to go to one another’s international locations and develop into extra conversant in universities and their scientific achievements, msrt.ir reported.
Established in 2004, the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum is an annual worldwide convention held every October in Kyoto. The 2025 version, happening from 5–7 October, marks the twenty second Annual Meeting.
The Forum offers a world platform for policymakers, enterprise leaders, scientists, researchers, and media representatives to debate how science and know-how can finest serve humanity.
Nearly 1,400 international leaders from over 80 international locations, areas, and worldwide organizations attended the occasion.
The Iranian official additionally met his Japanese counterpart; they emphasised sustaining and selling scientific relations, using the elites’ capabilities within the two international locations to enhance scientific interactions between them.
During the assembly, Simaei-Sarraf known as on Japan to extend the variety of scholarships for Iranian college students.
A profitable mannequin of sci-tech improvement
In September, Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhry, the coordinator normal of the Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (COMSTECH), highlighted Iran’s capability in innovation and know-how as some of the profitable international locations on the planet.
The official made the remarks whereas addressing the inauguration of the COMSTECH heart in Tehran’s Pardis Technology Park.
Pardis Technology Park is the most effective mannequin of an modern ecosystem in West Asia that has skilled a notable progress over the previous 20 years, IRNA quoted Chaudhry as saying.
The park’s infrastructures and in depth community play a pivotal position in selling scientific cooperation within the Islamic world, and the institution of the joint academy within the area will likely be a milestone in selling joint scientific and technological development, the official famous.
Iran ranks 72 in know-how, innovation
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Technology and Innovation Report 2025, Iran is ranked amongst higher middle-income international locations, rating 72nd amongst 166 international locations.
The nation’s rating has improved by one place in comparison with 2022.
UNCTAD has categorized 17 varieties of applied sciences as frontier applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, Internet of Things, large knowledge, 5G, 3D printing, robotics, drone know-how, photo voltaic photovoltaic, concentrated solar energy, biofuels, biogas and biomass, wind vitality, inexperienced hydrogen, electrical automobiles, nanotechnology, and gene modifying.
The Technology and Innovation Report 2025: Inclusive Artificial Intelligence for Development surveys the complicated synthetic intelligence panorama, aiming to assist decision-makers design science, know-how, and innovation insurance policies that foster inclusive technological progress.
The Report 2025 requires AI that places individuals first and is formed by international cooperation during which all international locations have a say. The Report identifies three key leverage factors – infrastructure, knowledge, and expertise – providing a broad socioeconomic perspective on AI whereas analyzing necessities and insurance policies to advertise sustainable industrialization and innovation.
The sub-indices of readiness for frontier applied sciences in 2025 present that Iran’s finest rating is within the analysis and improvement sub-index (thirty fifth on the planet).
In the finance sub-index, the nation’s rating has improved from 62 in 2022 to 56 in 2025. In different sub-indexes like expertise and the institution of knowledge and communication know-how, its rating has lowered from 74 and 78 in 2022 to 82 and 94 in 2025, respectively.
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