On Sunday, April 9th, the Scientific Council of the Academy sat for its 526th session. Prof. Reza Davari Ardakani chaired the meeting in which the secretary, vice president for research and deputy president, the chairmen of the scientific departments, the secretary of the Foresight Council and the Planning Consultant of the Academy were present.
At first, the proposals of the Department of Human Sciences and the Department of Basic Sciences for the fellow and associate fellow memberships and the proposals of the Department of Engineering Sciences of the Academy on the extension of the associate membership of a number of professors were presented. After their introduction by the chairmen of the relevant Departments and exchange of views, their memberships were approved by secret ballot and placed on the agenda of the General Assembly for final ratification.
Then, the proposals of the Department of Basic Sciences of the Academy for the collaboration of the following invited scholars for a two-year term were set forth and approved:
Prof. Hossein Esteky, professor at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; Prof. Saman Hosseinkhani and Prof. Yaghoub Fathollahi, professors at the Tarbiat Modares University
The Council meeting continued with the approval of the implementation of the new research project on "Analysis of Governance Process, Management and Operations of Resilience against Iranian Disasters" already confirmed by the Research Council.
Afterwards, the statement on "The Development of Renewable Energies for a Sustainable and Advanced Iran", prepared by the Department of Engineering Sciences of the Academy, was propounded and it was decided that the scientific departments would present their opinion in this regard before the next meeting of the Council.
At the end of the meeting, the opinions of the scientific departments were set forth on "The method of increasing the number of fellows of the academy" and after exchanging views, the prepared method with amendments were approved and placed on the agenda of the General Assembly for final ratification.