RICeST and ISC live on Cam/ Punjab University to bridge Iran with Pakistan

17 January 2019 | 00:00 Code : 1128 News Important News
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By Office of Public Relations and International Cooperation, RICeST, Shiraz, Iran

 Expanding scientific cooperation of RICeST and ISC internationally, a two-hour video conference meeting was held attended by the officials from Punjab University of Pakistan, ISC and RICeST.

Meanwhile the meeting and after an introduction to RICeST and ISC, the status of Pakistan’s universities, and in particular the University of Punjab, was investigated among OIC member universities. Along with the presentation of these issues, various topics including holding advanced scientometric workshops by RICeST and ISC, Pakistani universities’ accredited publications indexing, joint international projects with the University of Punjab, Pakistani universities science observation, scientific advice provision, hosting international meetings to promote the status of Islamic countries, activating RPDAP, and providing access to ISC information databases.

It should be noted that the meeting was held following the previous visit of a Pakistani delegation, which was taken place on Sep. 25th, 2018 from RICeST and ISC.

Due to its missions, ISC has investigated Islamic countries’ strengths and weaknesses in science and technology, which has been tasked by the fourth meeting of OIC higher education ministers in Baku (2008). Focusing on the scientific performance of OIC members and with extensive scientific activities in universities ranking, journals, and scientists as well as the observation these countries performance over the past 10 years, to a large extent ISC has obtained information on the scientific strengths and weaknesses of OIC members.

 


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