On Sunday, April 21, 2024, a meeting was held with the aim of expanding the festival’s international activities, attended by Eng. Ebrahim Jamili, Chairman of the Festival’s Policy Council, Dr. Seyed Kamil Tayyibi, Chairman of the ECO Scientific Foundation, Dr. Hossein Kashiri, Director General of the International Loans and Forums Office of the Iranian Investment and Technical Assistance Organization, Dr. Fatemeh Mohammadi Panah, Secretary of the Festival’s International Committee, Dr. Soroush Mudaveb, Executive Secretary of the Festival, and Eng. Shima Manzumi, Expert of the International Committee.
In this meeting, while exchanging views on the mutual expansion of transnational goals for the three institutions present, the Chairman of the Festival’s Policy Council called for cooperation between both groups in implementing joint international events and helping to introduce existing international capacities to benefit the festival’s winners and help introduce their achievements in the international sector.
While introducing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF), Dr. Keshiri proposed a tripartite meeting between the festival, the Deputy Minister of International Affairs of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, and a member of the ICYF Board of Directors.
He spoke about the possibility of inviting the president of the forum to the closing ceremony and familiarizing him with the festival process, and mentioned other international organizations with the capacity to cooperate with the festival, such as the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the OPEC Fund.
Dr. Tayyibi, while considering the expansion of the festival’s interactions with international organizations as valuable, proposed holding a joint scientific event and educational webinar between the festival and ECO.
In this meeting, it was decided that, considering the holding of the TTEC exhibition in October this year, the festival’s participation could provide an opportunity to get acquainted and create opportunities for cooperation with international forums and organizations participating in the exhibition.