Iranian, Italian universities ink MOU to broaden scientific ties

During a meeting held on Sunday 13 April in Tehran in Iran, Shoja Ahmadvand, the chancellor of Allameh Tabataba’i University, and Fabio Pollice, the chancellor of the University of Salento, discussed ways to expand scientific cooperation and signed a memorandum of understanding or MOU, Mehr News Agency reported.

Teaching Persian and Italian languages, holding short-term courses, exchanging students and professors, launching an archaeology major and a Persian-Italian journal, conducting Erasmus+ projects in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, and donating books to the libraries of the two universities were among the points proposed by Ahmadvand, which was well-received by the Italian side.

For his part, Pollice suggested holding virtual Persian and Italian language courses, organising online meetings among faculty members of the two universities and the two peer scientific groups to help them become more familiar with the existing capacities, fostering interactions between professors of the two universities, and exchanging professors and students for short-term courses with the aim of paving the way for long-term exchanges.
Full story on the Tehran Times site