Specialized meeting & Investigating solutions to combat scientific apartheid"

Scientific Apartheid Meeting held on March 17, 2025.
This meeting was attended by the Honorable Deputy for Research of the Ministry of Health and a number of general managers of this ministry, the Honorable Presidency of the Medical System Organization, the deans and vice-deans of research of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Iran, Baqiyatallah (a.s.), Pasteur Institute, Azad University, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Imam Sadegh (a.s.) University, the Deputy of Atf Naja, the Deputy of Provincial Affairs of the Iranian Broadcasting Corporation, the Secretary of the Biotechnology Staff of the Presidential Vice-President for Science and Technology, and a number of military and civil officials and a group of professors and specialists of Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (a.s.) were held at Baqiyatallah University.
In this meeting, which was actually the policy-making council of the Scientific Apartheid Congress, examples of scientific apartheid, how to deal with it, and the axes of the Congress were examined. After discussion, consideration, and presentation of opinions and suggestions by the members, the following items were agreed upon by the majority for planning and implementing the Congress in a grand manner:

1- Maximizing the use of the national capacity and the country's scientific community to participate in the Congress and present papers.

2- Providing the opportunity for the presence and optimal use of foreign professors and researchers with expertise in this Congress.

3- Planning to achieve the main goal of this Congress, namely, structuring and national and international consensus to deal with foreign currents effective in scientific apartheid and using existing capacities.

4- Providing solutions for preventing and dealing with internal currents that in some way move in the direction of scientific apartheid, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

5- Providing necessary suggestions to the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution to consider and increase the quota of study opportunities for Iranian professors and students for scientific communication with other countries, as well as placing a day on the national calendar as the day to fight scientific apartheid.

6- Necessary planning for holding the required workshops (process and requirements for placing journals in Scopus, PubMed, ISI indexes - placing universities and promoting them in international rankings such as Times, QS, etc.) - presence of companies and presentation of scientific and technological products at the exhibition, as well as holding idea events and cultural and artistic festivals.