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The 15th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads (APAO 2019) kicked off in Tehran on Sunday.

The 20th International Exhibition of Telecommunications, Information Technology, also known as Telecom Innovation 2019, opened on Tuesday at the Tehran Permanent International Fairground.

Twenty-three top researchers and technologists were honored at the 20th Exhibition of Research and Technological Achievements which opened in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iranian short animated piece ‘Watch Me!’ by Reza Mehranfar has made it into the screening program of 16th Kinofilm & Manchester International Film Festival in the UK.

The US has tried to create Iranophobia in the world during the last decades; however, the plot failed given the fact that there is still collaboration and interaction between Iran, the Middle East and the West.

Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari and Deputy ICT minister said that progress of “Pars 1” Remote Sensing Satellite is ‘satisfactory’.

The Sadi Foundation, a Tehran-based organization that promotes the Persian language abroad, and the Beijing International Studies University (BISU) have signed a memorandum of understating (MOU).

Another Iranian-manufactured social robot, designed to interact and communicate with humans, will be unveiled on Tuesday, according to VP for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari.

 Four books by Italian children’s writer Gianni Rodari have recently been published in Persian in Tehran. 

The 22nd International Storytelling Festival will open in Tehran on Tuesday at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) with narrators from Iran and several other countries.

 Iran is seeking to secure four world heritage status jointly with other countries in 2020.

Iranian scientists at the Islamic Azad University of Khorramabad in Western Iran manufactured a four-wheel vehicle which does not need any fossil fuel and runs with clean energies.

Second International Persian Language Teaching Conference was held in the University of Cambridge.

Three million undernourished people in Asia and the Pacific must be lifted out of hunger each month from now on, if the region is to meet the SDG 2 Zero Hunger goal by the end of 2030, says a new report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Several Iranian and Turkish scholars and students of the Persian language discussed Iranian children’s literature during a meeting held at Istanbul University, the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) announced on Wednesday.

ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said Wed. that a major cyberattack against the infrastructures of Iran’s e-government has been successfully repelled.

A collection of rare handwritten scripts by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei went on display in an exhibition which opened at the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) on Monday.

A campaign to plant 14 million saplings in a week kicked off in Iran on Thursday under the Forests, Range, and Watershed Management Organization (FRWMO)’s wider plan to lead the planting of 55 million saplings.

Nearly one in five school buildings in England require urgent repairs, a Guardian investigation has found, leading to warnings that they are “crumbling around teachers and pupils.”

Head of Knowledge-based Companies and Institutions Seyyed Mohammad Sahebkar Khorasani said that concentrating on knowledge-based economy is a good strategy for countering sanctions and meeting the country's domestic needs.

Twenty-two Iranian universities were ranked among the world’s green institutes announced by the University of Indonesia’s GreenMetric World University Ranking on Sustainability 2019, IRNA reported on Monday.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) welcomes Iran’s efforts to extend education opportunities for nearly half a million Afghan children in the country, UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch has said.

A number of German writers gathered during a meeting named “A Night with German Writers” at Iran’s Cultural Office in Berlin on Friday to discuss how Andalusia was influenced by Persian art and knowledge.

Iranian short ‘The Feast of the Goat’, directed by Saeed Zamanian, has made it into the competition program of 16th Kinofilm & Manchester International Film Festival in UK.

Iranian stem cell scientist Professor Masoud Soleimani was welcomed by his family members, his students, and the country’s officials at Tehran Mehrabad airport, arriving home after 14 months of imprisonment in the US where he was invited by an American institute for a research project.

The deputy of the Minister of Education Rezvan Hakimzadeh in a joint meeting with Abdolreza Fooladvand the head of Tehran’s province education office said:  Preschool education is a key to realize education equality.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said: teaching is one of the most important jobs which every society really needs it.

The secretary of Roshd Book Festival Masoud Fayazi said: 1130 publishers have participated in this year’s festival.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei in a joint meeting with directors of Tehran’s Education Offices said: The problems of the education system should be solved in a sustainable way.

Iranian students from Sharif University won Special Mention Award of the 11th International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2019) for designing 'MAYA: an Intelligent Elephant Social Robot'.

Tehran’s Ibn-e Sina Cultural Center will be hosting a festival of naqqali, a style of storytelling dedicated to epic stories from Ferdowsi’s masterpiece Shahnameh, for children and young adults.

Members of Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) have won prizes at the 26th edition of the World Children’s Picture Contest in Tokyo, Japan, the IIDCYA announced on Monday. 

The head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) Ali Zouelm on the verge of the National Week of Research said: Research should be regarded as a basis for the education system.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei in the joint meeting with the directors of education offices of Tehran province said: the Ministry of Education is tasked to implement FRDE.

The deputy of the Minister of Education Alireza Kamarei said: The progress of the country is tied to investment in the field of education.

The advisor of the Minister of Education and the chief executive of FRDE Reza Madadi has said: FRDE should be turned into a discourse in the country. “The Implementation of FRDE needs the cooperation of all members of society”, Madadi added.

The head of Khorasan Razavi Education Office Ghasemali Khodabandeh said: according to Fundamental Reform Document of Education (FRDE) and other strategic documents, the mission of realizing education equality can be met by using modern technologies. In this regard, distance learning should be regarded as a capacity to realize education equality.

The deputy of the Minister of Education Alireza Kazemi in the sideline of his travel to the city of Ghayen (located in South Korasan Province) said: FRDE is the main priority of the country’s education system and all schools’ principals should try to implement this strategic document.

Dr. Mohsen Shokouh The founder of ShoKouh English language teaching school passed away. 

The head of Farhangian University added: teachers are powerful educational managers. He emphasized teachers and education system should reinforce participation and creativity of students.

The deputy of the Minister of Education Alireza Kazemi in the memorial ceremony of the martyrs of Esfaden city said: Enemy tries to destroy friendly relationship between people and officials in Iran.  

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei in the sideline of a meeting with high ranking directors of the Ministry of Education said: education equality is a basic right for people.

The head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning(OERP) Ali Zouelm has said: 30 percent of education time in Iran’s schools is missed.

City dwellers tend to live longer if they are in leafy neighborhoods, according to a study that linked green areas to lower rates of premature death.

The Municipality of Tehran won the World Smart City Award (WSCA) 2019 for its Smart Tehran Program (STP).

“Remember Maryam Mirzakhani”, an exhibition of graphic designs held in Italy in 2108 to commemorate the Iranian mathematical genius Maryam Mirzakhani, is currently underway in her homeland Tehran.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari praises knowledge-based companies' role in assisting the country to meet medical needs inside the country.

12 Iranian researchers have been recognized in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List compiled by Clarivate Analytics.

The country's first entrepreneurship center affiliated to the Ministry of Education was inaugurated on Saturday in Mashhad city, northeastern Khorasan Razavi province.