Syrian Researchers Conference affirms the need to developing partnership with private sector and preparing national policy for nanotechnology 

At the end of the work of the Fifth Conference of Syrian Researchers in the Homeland and Expatriate for the year 2023, the participants recommended the need to expand and develop the database of Syrian expatriate researchers, which leads to achieving the conference’s vision and objectives, leading to development at the national level.

The recommendations centered on the following:

Preparing a national policy for nanotechnology, especially in the fields in which its effectiveness has been proven, and communicating with the concerned authorities to notify them of the results of the research presented in the field of nanotechnology and to consider the possibility of benefiting from it.

Developing partnership with the private sector to provide non-health services in health care facilities..

Laying down national guidelines for the inclusion of quality and safety standards in the photovoltaic sector..

Notifying the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform of the need to change agricultural policies for types and patterns of agricultural crops..

Notifying the concerned scientific research authorities of the importance of conducting studies on germ-eating viruses for their role in restoring the sensitivity of germs to antibiotics and enhancing the acquired immune response against germs..

Notifying the Ministry of Health of the need to review the protocols for giving folic acid to pregnant women because of its effects on increasing the susceptibility to asthma and allergic diseases in newborns..

The conference, which was organized by the Higher Commission for Scientific Research in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, the Syrian Virtual University and the Arab School of Science and Technology, under the title “Conference of Syrian Researchers in the Homeland and Expatriate… Towards a Knowledge-Based National Economy,” was launched on Tuesday at the Al-Assad National Library in Damascus.

The conference aimed at finding effective research partnerships among researchers in the homeland and expatriation and transferring localization of technology in Syria.

Syrian researchers from inside Syria and Syrian expatriates in China, Russia, Iran, France, Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Lebanon, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates participated in the conference.

Inas Abdulkareem