According to the report of Mehr reporter, Mohammad Hassanzadeh, at the ceremony commemorating the Iernational Day of Science in the Service of Peace and Developme, which was held today, Monday, November 19, at the Hall of Martyrs of Scieific Jihad of the Ministry of Science, he considered the promotion of science to be an esseial step in the future of ieraction between science, industry and society and said: Irandak During nearly 6 decades of his activity, he has provided valuable services to the developme of the coury’s science and technology ecosystem, and today, in cooperation with the Iranian Science Promotion Association, he is taking steps towards the developme of scieific culture.
Emphasizing that the promotion of science is a strategic investme for developme, he added: In today’s world, the promotion of science is no longer a mere cultural or educational activity, but a national and infrastructure investme for the developme of couries. The couries that stand on the froiers of science and technology were able to establish a link between science and society by promoting science.
The head of Iran’s Research Institute of Science and Information Technology listed the gap between science and implemeation as one of the coury’s serious challenges and said: “Unfortunately, despite the extensive efforts of the coury’s universities and research ceers, which for most of the national problems and challenges, scieific solutions and technologically have preseed, only a small part of these solutions are used in practice. To fill this gap, we should focus not only on the production of science, but also on the promotion, understanding and social cooperation in science so that science becomes a part of the decision-making and production system in society.
Referring to the three fundameal steps in the path of science promotion, he added: In order to institutionalize the scieific culture and the real link between the university, industry and society, we must follow the three principles of scieific belief, scieific assistance and cooperation in science. Believing in science means trusting science as the most reliable way to solve the coury’s problems. A society that believes in science makes its decisions based on data and evidence, not feelings and tastes. Assistive science to support scieific activities and technologically; From education and research to supporting elites and the application of research results in industry and public services, and cooperation in science; It means inviting people, media, private sector and civil institutions to help the scieific process. Without the national and multilateral cooperation of these three steps, the promotion of science remains only a slogan.
Saying that knowledge is alive when it is used, Hassanzadeh emphasized: If universities are to play a role more effective To play a role in the industrial and social developme of the coury, they should go through the path of promoting and popularizing science. Promotion of science is a bridge between researchers and industrialists, between laboratory and factory, between theory and practice.
the boss Irandak He stated: Iran’s Research Institute of Science and Information Technology, as the coury’s national science measureme and scieific information institution, is trying to play a driving role in the socialization of science with data-orieed, media and educational tools.
Announcing the unveiling of Iran’s National Science Promotion System, he said: This system is a digital platform for collecting, producing and publishing scieific coe in public language so that science can connect with people’s lives. This system is available to the public and in the future, more diverse sections such as the promotion coe bank and the national network of science promoters will be added to it.
The head of Iran Information Science and Technology Institute considered the role of promoting science in the developme of technology as key and emphasized: technology does not grow in a vacuum; A society that believes in science accepts technology and directs it towards its real needs. In the path of technology developme, we need platforms for scieific dialogue between the university, industry and people, and the promotion of science provides exactly such a platform.
Hassanzadeh poied out that promoting science is a way to develop the connection between universities and industry and to strengthen the social capital of science in the coury. The more science is understood in society, the more developme technologically And our innovation will also accelerate.
