The science and academic system is borderless by nature. Science is both local and global. It transcends the geographical limits to be the common wealth of the whole humanity. Only through interactions among various cultures a fair,multi-cultural world full of diversity,creativity,peace,symbiosis and synergy to improve the human conditions is hoped to reach and universities are among the most influencing institutions to establish such a conversation and interaction. The sixth article of the general science and technology policy stipulates the expansion of active,constructive and inspiring cooperation and interaction with other countries and regional and global centers in science and technology fields especially in the Islam
world together with strengthening the national autonomy.
The ministry of science,research and technology has based one of its fundamental plans on the internationalization of the higher education and universities.
The higher education internationalization is to interweave the functional,research,specialized services and other academic functionalities in local,national,regional and global scales.
Futures studies is the science to recognize the future events and changes and be ready for them and since science is one of the essential constituents for building the future,the higher education futures studies means planning the science movement of the country and directing it toward playing more prominent role in the national development economically,socially,culturally and scientifically. Regarding this outlook,“The 1st National Conference on the Futures Studies of Higher Education in Iran: Internationalization of Universities; Perspectives and Challenges” creates an opportunity for the researchers,academics,managers and policymakers to open new horizons in the path to the internationalization of the Iranian universities.
Seyed Abolhassan Naini
The president of the
Imam Khomeini international university
&
Nasrin Noorshahi
The Director of the Institute for Research
and Planning in Higher Education (IRPHE) and
chair of the coference
Tracer Study Workshop 24th. May, 2017
Venue: Talash Sport & Cultural Complex, Vali Asr Street, Tehran, Iran
Speaker: Harald Shomburg, Senior Consultant, Germany
This one-day workshop organized and held by Technical and Vocational University cooperating with Institution for Research and Planning in Higher Education, and Iranian Association for Scientific Development. The Resource Person was Professor Yashavantha Dongre Director of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Board at Mysore University, India. He is a professor of commerce and his area of interest is building entrepreneurship ecosystem in educational institutions.
The Office of International Scientific Cooperation at TVU was responsible for organizing the event and the participants were Chancellors, Deputies and Director Generals for Entrepreneurship and Academia-Industry relation Offices from distinguished state universities across the country.
This event started at 8 by the welcome speech of TVU Chancellor, Professor Ebrahim Salehi Omran, and continued by the first part on “Creating a Concept of Entrepreneurship”. The second part was allocated to “Case Studies” in which two entrepreneurial universities were discussed in terms of their entrepreneurship ecosystem, one totally developed and one developing. The final part was a task based activity. The participants were given some tasks and a limited time to find out the practical strategies to do the tasks. The closing was at 1:00 pm.