Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia to deepen cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) agreements. The MoU was signed on the sidelines of the 10th Meeting of the SCO Education Ministers, which took place in Minsk, Belarus, on 16 and 17 June, reports the Tehran Times.
Accordingly, both parties will collaborate to expand network cooperation, develop and implement joint educational programmes and courses, particularly at the postgraduate level. Addressing the 10th meeting of the SCO Education Ministers, Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, put forward three proposals to enhance academic, research and technological collaborations among the universities of the SCO member states.
To promote scientific cooperation among member states, the science minister offered three proposals. The first one focused on ‘exchanging elites and scholars’. Accordingly, Iran is ready to grant 100 scholarships to postgraduate and PhD students, and 10 more to post-doctoral researchers of SCO member states to do research on the real problems in the region under the supervision of professors.
Full report on the Tehran Times site
Quelle: University World News
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