Iran, Japan discuss ways to cooperate on road, housing, urban development research

TEHRAN- A meeting between representatives of the Japanese Embassy in Tehran and the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center of Iran was held at the Research Center with the attendance of the Center’s President, the First Secretary and Head of the Economic Section of the Japanese Embassy in Iran, and their accompanying delegation, aiming to enhance the level and quality of bilateral cooperation.

According to a report from the news portal of the Ministry of Transport and Urban Development, citing the Public Relations of the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center, the meeting was held at the Research Center, and at the beginning of the meeting, Atefeh Jahan Mohammadi, Head of the Structure and Technical Buildings Department of the Research Center, presented a comprehensive report on the history of scientific and research cooperation between the two parties, particularly regarding the “Iran-Japan Knowledge Transfer Program on Seismic Design of Steel Structures.”

She called for the continuation of bilateral scientific and research cooperation and the utilization of valuable Japanese expertise, especially in the fields of retrofitting and enhancing the resilience of buildings, engineering structures, and technical edifices.

Subsequently, the First Secretary and Head of the Economic Section of the Japanese Embassy in Iran, while appreciating the President of the Research Center for organizing the meeting, called for enhancing the level of scientific and research cooperation between Iran and Japan, particularly in technical and engineering fields, architecture and urban development, and transportation.

He evaluated international capacities in the scientific and research fields as highly valuable for creating synergy and participation in the exchange of experiences, considering their utilization as very constructive and effective for overcoming countries’ challenges.

Following this, the President of the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center, by providing a brief introduction of the Center as the think tank of the Ministry of Transport and Urban Development and its diverse scientific, research, and educational activities over the past five decades, declared the Center’s full readiness for interaction and maximizing the use of international scientific and research capacities, as well as for exporting and sharing technical and engineering services derived from the valuable experiences of other countries, especially Japan.

Referring to the past and ongoing international scientific and research cooperation of the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center with the “United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-Habitat)” and the “Asia-Pacific Center for Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM),” he called for enhancing the level of international scientific, research, and technical-engineering cooperation.

After this meeting, the First Secretary and Head of the Economic Section of the Japanese Embassy in Iran and the accompanying delegation conducted a technical visit to the Fire Engineering Laboratory of the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center.

It is worth noting that the deliberation meeting and technical visit of the representatives of the Japanese Embassy in Iran with the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center were planned and held following a request from the First Secretary and Head of the Economic Section of the Japanese Embassy in Iran, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was then relayed through the International Affairs Center of the Ministry of Transport and Urban Development to the Research Center.

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