President ECOSF meets the Coordinator General of COMSTECH

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President ECOSF Prof. Dr. Manzoor Hussain Soomro paid a visit to the secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Standing Committee on Scientific & Technological Cooperation- COMSTECH in Islamabad and had a meeting with its Coordinator General Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary on 20 August 2020. Prof. Chaudhary warmly welcomed Prof. Soomro to COMSTECH. Prof. Soomro congratulated Prof. Chaudhary upon his assuming the challenging role as the Coordinator General of COMSTECH. Subsequently the two leaders sat together and discussed the possible STI cooperation in the common member countries of the two organizations.

During the meeting, Prof. Soomro briefed Prof. Chaudhary on the on-going high impact programmes of ECOSF and discussed the potential collaboration between the two Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).

Dr. Soomro said that the potential collaboration between ECOSF and COMSTECH exists in the areas of; S&T Parks and Incubation Centers; IBSE for STEM Capacity Building of School Teachers and Teacher Trainers; and the Technology based business development in the common member countries.

It is pertinent to mention that ECOSF could strengthen partnership with COMSTECH by leveraging its partners; Isfahan Regional Center for Technology Incubator and Science Park Development (IRIS), Isfahan Science & Technology Town (ISTT) of Iran, Pardis Technology Park Tehran; and the International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation under the auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC) Malaysia, to promote S&T parks in the ECO/OIC region. Dr. Soomro further pointed out that ECOSF has developed a strong cooperation with some Chinese institutions such as; Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU) and China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and those two can be leveraged upon for cooperation in development and transfer of technology.

Prof. Dr. Iqbal Chaudhary expressed his pleasure on the gesture of cooperation extended by Prof. Soomro in realizing the mutual goals and objectives and goals of the two organizations for socio-economic development of the common member countries. The Coordinator General emphasized upon the need and importance of cooperation and collaboration especially in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.