Strengthening communication between scientific
associations and universities, and moving towards interdisciplinary knowledge At this meeting, Seyyed Mohsen
Tabatabaei, the Secretary of IUESA referred to strengthening communication
between scientific associations and universities which it can facilitate production
cycle of domestic knowledge and said universities, particularly ATU, can take
an important step parallel with development of these communication.
He emphasized that one of the
scientific associations’ expectations from academia is introducing and indexing
sites, magazines and other scientific documents related to the associations on
the universities’ web sites, adding that universities can also facilitate the
access to foreign scientific websites such as Business Source, Pro quest,
Science Direct, Scopus, Premier and etc.
University officials should provide
the possibility of membership of university students and professors in the
relevant scientific associations, he added.
The cooperation between universities
and scientific associations is a strategy for moving toward production of interdisciplinary
knowledge. Nowadays, scientific associations expect universities, particularly
ATU, to facilitate transferring university knowledge, research and training
experiences to the associations and vice versa, he further said.
Hossein
Salimi, the president of ATU emphasized the special place of scientific
associations in production of domestic knowledge. We try to provide the
condition for participation of associations in designing fields. |