A bridge between Italy and Iran

The first Iran-Italy Science, Technology and Innovation Forum took place in these days in Tehran; it is the focus of a program aiming at the development of a permanent platform, coordinated by Città della Scienza of Naples, which enables universities, research centers and enterprises with a strong innovative impact to realize a constant exchange, throughout the year, in order to implement the scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries.
The Forum is organized once a year, alternately in Italy and Iran, and brings together all the parties involved, through the organization of an institutional event to encourage the dialogue on innovation and create opportunities for one-to-one meetings between Italians and Iranians in order to foster the building of technology, productive and commercial partnerships.
The first edition of the forum took place in the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran on april 19-20 in presence of the Ministers Valeria Fedeli and Mohammad Farhadi. The Italian system was presented in an integrated and structured way on the theme of internationalization of research and innovation with Iran, involving various ministries, universities, Confindustria and major research institutions, among which INFN also through its network CHNet.

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