10th Meeting of the COMSATS Coordinating Council, Cairo - Egypt, 18-19 June, 2007

The 10th Meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) has been scheduled for 18th and 19th of June, 2007, at Cairo, Egypt. The National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt, is graciously holding this event.
The COMSATS Coordinating Council comprises the Heads of the COMSATS’ International Science and Technology Centres of Excellence. These are 14 in number and represent wide spectrum of scientific & technological areas.

Prof. M. H. A. Hassan who is the Executive Director, TWAS, as well as the Secretary General, TWNSO, shall chair the meeting. This meeting is important as past activities of the network will be reviewed and imperative matters of technical activities and programmes for the year 2007- 2008 will be discussed and decided. Financial and budgetary matters of the network are also reviewed in this meeting.
The tentative agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Agenda (Tentative) of the 10th Meeting of COMSATS Coordinating Council

Agenda Item - 1   Approval of Minutes of the 9th Meeting of COMSATS Coordinating Council and Implementation Status of the Decisions taken thereafter [by Director General (International Affairs) - COMSATS
Agenda Item - 2  

Presentation on COMSATS' Past Activities and Proposed Future Strategies [by Executive Director - COMSATS]

  • Presentation by Executive Director
  • Comments, Suggestions, Proposals and Recommendations on Preliminary Draft of Proposed Future Strategies
Agenda Item - 3   Presentation of the COMSATS Activity Report (2006) [by Director General (International Affairs) - COMSATS
Agenda Item - 4  

Presentation of the Programmes and Activities of Centres of Excellence

  1. International Centre for Environmental and nuclear Sciences (ICENS), Jamaica
  2. International Centre of Climate and Environmental Sciences (ICCES), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China
  3. International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Pakistan
  4. Iranian Research Organization for Science & Technology (IROST), Iran
  5. National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Nigeria
  6. National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt
  7. Royal Scientific Society (RSS), Jordan
  8. Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization (TIRDO), Tanzania
Agenda Item - 5  

Decision on the Inclusion of Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre (IRCC - Sudan) as an 'Associate Member' to the Network of International S&T Centres of Excellence

  1. Presentation by the Director General Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre (IRCC), Sudan
  2. Decision by members of the Coordinating Council
Agenda Item - 6   Expansion of the Focal Scientific Areas for Cooperation among Members of COMSATS' Network of Centres of Excellence
Agenda Item - 7   Implementation of South-South Technical Cooperation Programme among COMSATS Member Countries - 2007-08, under teh UNESCO and ISESCO Partnership Programme
Agenda Item - 8  
  1. Establishment of COMSATS' Virtual Centres for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (COMCGEB) [To be presented by NRC, Cairo - Egypt]
  2. Human Stem Cell: Principles and Applications [To be presented by NRC, Cairo - Egypt
Agenda Item - 9  

Funding of Bilaterial and Multinational Research Projects among COMSATS Member States

  • Investigation for Sustainable utilization and in-vitro Preservation of Medicinal Plants of Nile and Indus Valleys [To be presented by NRC, Cairo - Egypt
Agenda Item - 10   Venue and Schedule for the next (11th) Meeting of the COMSATS Coordinating Council
Agenda Item - 11   Any other item with the permission of the Chair

The Coordinating Council Meeting is an annual event and has special significance as it helps strengthen the Network of the International Science and Technology Centres of Excellence for Sustainable Development in the South. The meeting paves way for creating avenues for international cooperation and to devise science and technology based solutions for the pressing developmental problems of the third-world.

     
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