Iran, Turkey to Broaden Scientific Cooperation

TEHRAN (defapress)- Head of the Turkish Scientific and Technological Researches Council Hassan Mandal, in a meeting with Governor General of Iran’s Northwestern province of East Azarbaijan Mohammad Reza Pour-Mohammadi, said that the two sides will promote scientific and technological collaboration in 2019.

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Date: 17 March 2019 - 15:17

During the meeting on Saturday in Tabriz, Mandal said that 2019 will be good year in terms of promoting scientific and technological collaboration between Turkey and East Azarbaijan.

Pour-Mohammadi, for his part in the meeting, said the province welcomes scientific and industrial collaboration with Turkish universities and industries, as a large number of Turkish companies have invested in Tabriz Foreign Investment Township.

Referring to the historic and geographic significance of the province, Pour-Mohammadi said that the province is one of the main Iranian provinces in terms of industries, mines and infrastructures.

Referring to good ties between the Tabrizi tradesmen and their counterparts, he said that there is extensive cooperation between producers of the two sides.

He also hailed East Azarbaijan province’s extraordinary capacities in the field of diplomacy, and said that Tabriz can be capital of diplomacy in the country, as the construction of diplomatic complex in the city serves as a major step in this regard.

Early in this month, Iran’s Tabriz and Turkey’s Gazi universities voiced their determination to broaden academic cooperation with sealing memoranda of understanding (MoUs) through exchanging students and professors and conducting joint research projects.

President of Turkey’s Gazi University Dr. Ibrahim Uslan met with the president of the University of Tabriz Dr. Mirreza Majidi in Iran’s Northwest city of Tabriz to discuss increasing mutual cooperation.

In the meeting, Dr. Uslan expressed his university’s readiness to increase cooperation with universities in the region, specially the University of Tabriz, saying that sealing memoranda of understanding would pave the way for increasing cooperation in the fields of exchange of students and professors, joint researches and joint scientific work.

Dr. Majidi, for his part, said that his university enjoys having distinguished professors in various scientific fields, noting that 12 professors of the university were among the top researchers listed by Thomson Reuters citation database.

Dr. Majidi also expressed the readiness of the University of Tabriz for expanding scientific and educational cooperation with other universities of the world, and in particular with the countries of the region, adding that Iran and Turkey can easily communicate and collaborate in different fields due to their common history and culture.

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