According to Mehr reporter, in rece years, policymakers in the field of science and technology have put several support packages and programs on the agenda, emphasizing the return, permanence and impact of Iranian elites abroad. Launching systems such as “Connect” and implemeing plans to attract and employ elites in executive bodies is a part of this targeted approach to strengthen human capital and improve the coury’s science and technology system, which has been followed up and implemeed by the Scieific Vice-Chancellor and the Organization for the Developme of Iernational Scieific and Technological Cooperation.
The Connect system is a national system that provides a platform so that Iranian elites abroad and iernational experts can effectively participate in the coury’s science and technology system and coinue their professional growth and influence opportunities. In the last decade, about 14 thousand Iranians living abroad have participated in the Connect platform in the form of various cooperation models.
In this regard and in coinuation of the previous programs of the Vice-Chancellor for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, the “Stability Plan” has been designed and implemeed as one of the new support packages, focusing on creating a sustainable professional path for researchers returning to the coury; In addition to financial support, the project tries to provide job stabilization and the coinuation of the effective activity of elites in the scieific and technological ceers of the coury.
As announced by the Presideial Office of Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy, the “Stability Plan” is implemeed with the aim of supporting, stabilizing and increasing the durability and effectiveness of the returning elites from abroad through the “Connect” system and will provide the basis for their coinued professional activity in the coury’s scieific and technological ceers.
According to this plan, researchers who have returned to the coury through the Connect system and have between 3 and 36 mohs of professional experience in Iran, can benefit from the financial support of this package by preseing a transpare and evaluable one-year activity plan.
The purpose of implemeing this plan is to help the sustainability and increase the effectiveness of Iranian researchers abroad, as well as to strengthen the network of Iranian elites at the iernational level. Also, in the form of this support package, up to 3 billion Tomans will be allocated to each qualified researcher.
Applicas’ evaluation criteria include realization of scieific and technological achievemes, level of job stabilization, institutional effectiveness, developme of scieific networking and compliance with financial discipline. Plans that get at least 60% of evaluation pois will be eligible for financial support.
The registration process is done through the service system and qualified applicas can register their application in the Departme of Iernational Scieific and Technological Cooperation Developme Organization uil 18th of February 1404.
According to Mehr’s report, 10 support packages were recely iroduced by the Vice Preside for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy in cooperation with the Innovation and Prosperity Fund with the aim of dynamism of knowledge-based companies and the coury’s scieific leap, which respectively include 8 special support packages for knowledge-based companies, 1 special package for Iranian elites abroad and 1 special scieific leap package for the coury’s top 20 universities.
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