Center for Science Diplomacy
The SIIF Center for Science Diplomacy serves as a global hub bringing together the stakeholders – from scientists and technologists in academia and industry to policymakers and diplomats to civil society leaders and business – who contribute to, benefit from, and direct science diplomacy. The Center is a leader in conceptualizing science diplomacy as a critical aspect of 21st century science and international relations. The Center demonstrates how science can strengthen interactions and partnerships between the scientific and diplomatic communities, and develop the intellectual framework and training to support the practice of science diplomacy. Its aim is to build bridges between communities, societies, and nations through closer interactions between science and diplomacy and elevate the role of science in foreign policy to address national and global challenges.
Diplomacy for Science and Science for Sustainable Development
The SIIF Center for Science Diplomacy is focused on ensuring that Iranian scientists have access to the best minds, facilities, and unique research environments. The result of these trends makes the role of diplomacy advancing international science collaboration even more important. That means our diplomats and policy makers need to help the science community by removing hurdles and bureaucratic roadblocks whenever possible by facilitating and negotiating innovative international agreements by providing more funding for our scientists to work at leading international facilities, and to collaborate with scientists from other countries.
Turning to sustainable development, Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) are critical for making progress on every one of these approved seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for guiding the world to 2030. Science can contribute in several ways, by identifying challenges, advising on actions that can make a difference, identifying indicators for monitoring progress, and searching for innovative solutions.
The most significant contributions from STI may come from the latter category, that is, innovative solutions that help bypass intractable political problems, or, “science leapfrogging diplomacy.” To accelerate these new scientific and technological advances, science diplomacy and international science collaboration are needed to help all countries become more capable in STI. By doing so, the 2030 Agenda can be as important for supporting the development of knowledge-based and innovative societies as for making near-term progress on the seventeen SDGs.
Goals and objectives
The SIIF Center for Science Diplomacy currently focuses its core activities around building, strengthening, and maintaining a community of diverse stakeholders in science, technology, policy, and international relations who contribute to and benefit from science diplomacy. Also, empower scientists and international affairs professionals to be future leaders at the intersection of science and diplomacy and develop educational tools, training, and resources. This roadmap will demonstrate the potential for science to help build relationships across borders and impact diplomatic efforts.
Following these goals, for the funding period 2019-2020, the Center acting as Leading House for the bilateral Science and Technology cooperation program of Switzerland with Iran, offers calls to support research cooperation with scientists and institutions from Iran.
«Cooperation» here is not aimed at improving economic competitiveness, as was frequently the case in the past. It means a responsible common search for solutions to the problems confronting humanity as a whole. Competition and polarization of research is no longer appropriate – what is needed is complementarity and synergy.
So, based on the 11 Principles of Research Partnership introduced by Swiss Commission for Research Partnership with Developing Countries this has been listed in below,
1. Decide on the objectives together
2. Build up mutual trust
3. Share information; develop networks
4. Share responsibility
5. Create transparency
6. Monitor and evaluate the collaboration
7. Disseminate the results
8. Apply the results
9. Share profits equitably
10. Increase research capacity
11. Build on the achievements
SIIF Center for Scientific Diplomacy will act as a firm to grow the body of people, who are involved in doing research or formulating research policy, to make their lasting contribution to world-wide sustainable development.
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