Tehran, Baghdad ink action plan for scientific cooperation

Iran and Iraq have signed an action plan to give a boost to their scientific collaborations. The action plan was signed by Omid Rezaei-Far, an official with the Iranian Ministry of Science, and Haider Abd Dahed, Iraqi deputy minister of higher education and scientific research, on the first day of the second Iran-Iraq Science Week being held in the city of Karbala, Iraq, reports IRNA.

The joint scientific programmes have been developed to focus on different aspects including boosting cooperation on granting scholarships for graduate and postgraduate education, particularly within a framework titled ‘Study in Iraq’.

It also involves holding training courses for professors and students; promoting cooperation on joint scientific supervision; exchanging professors to conduct scientific research; and establishing science technology parks in Iraq collaboratively under the management of the Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry of Iraq.
Full report on the Tehran Times site