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Organized by: OIC-COMSTECH Technovation Academy
Hosted by: Pardis Technology Park, Iran
Location: Pardis Technology Park, Iran International Innovation District, Tehran

INTRODUCTION

In today’s rapidly evolving global economy, technology and innovation ecosystems play a critical role in driving sustainable development, economic diversification, and competitiveness. Effective innovation ecosystems bring together policymakers, academia, industry, startups, investors, and support institutions to transform ideas into impactful solutions, generate high-value employment, and address complex societal challenges.

Recognizing the growing importance of innovation-led growth across OIC Member States, the OIC-COMSTECH Technovation Academy, in collaboration with Pardis Technology Park (PTP), Iran, is organizing the International Capacity-Building Training Program on Technology & Innovation Ecosystem Development, to be held from 14–25 April 2026 at the Pardis Technology Park, International Innovation District, Tehran.

This intensive, practice-oriented program is designed to equip mid- to senior-level professionals with the conceptual frameworks, practical tools, and hands-on exposure required to design, strengthen, and manage innovation ecosystems tailored to their national and regional contexts. Leveraging Iran’s experience—particularly the successful model of Pardis Technology Park—the program will combine expert-led training, technology tours, case studies, and collaborative group work to foster actionable learning and cross-country knowledge exchange among participants from OIC Member States.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core components and dynamics of innovation ecosystems
• Design context-specific strategies for ecosystem development
• Identify key stakeholders and build effective collaboration models
• Develop funding, policy, and infrastructure roadmaps
• Learn from global best practices and Iranian success stories
• Build an international network of ecosystem builders

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

Duration: 10 Days

Daily Schedule:

• Workshops;
• Tech tours;
• Expert panels;
• Group projects;
• Networking sessions;
• Iranian culture experience;

BENEFITS

Limited to 20 participants from OIC member countries — Selection is competitive.

• Round-trip international airfare
• Accommodation (shared twin rooms)
• All local transportation (airport transfers & program-related travel)
• Daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
• Training materials & certification of completion
• This program is fully funded for selected participants.
• No participation fee.
• Visa assistance provided.

QUALIFICATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

Eligible applicants include professionals from OIC member states, particularly those working in:

• Government officials & policymakers in science, technology & innovation
• Managers of science & technology parks, technology incubators, and innovation accelerators
• Innovation ecosystem developers & consultants
• Representatives of international development agencies
• Academics & researchers in innovation policy
• Startup ecosystem enablers & investors

Applicants must be fluent in English and committed to implementing learnings in their home ecosystems.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Application form (Download here)

CV/Resume (max. 2 pages in free format)

Passport copy (valid until at least December 2026)

HOW TO APPLY

Applications including the required documents must be submitted via email to events@comstech.org  

Training Coordinators:

Mr. Haris Akram, Program Manager, COMSTECH. (Haris@comstech.org)

Mr. Reza Aslani, Pardis Technology Park, Iran

UNDERSTANDING THE EXECUTIONERS OF LIFE

PCMD, ICCBS, KARACHI, PAKISTAN

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VENUE

Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan.

Flyer in English
Flyer in French
Flyer in Arabic

Introduction:

OIC-COMSTECH is pleased to announce an International Seminar on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), addressing critical global health challenges affecting vulnerable populations across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.NTDs comprise a group of 20 infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and parasitic worms. With the impact of climate change and global warming, these diseases are increasingly spreading beyond tropical regions into temperate climates.

A special focus of this seminar will be Leishmaniasis, one of the top ten NTDs worldwide, affecting more than 12 million people globally. In this seminar, a team of internationally renowned speakers will discuss diagnostics of NTDs, structure-based and AI supported drug discovery targeting the Leishmaniasis causing parasites.

Participation:

• Physical participation is only open for residents of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and nearby Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Virtual participation is open to all interested individuals of OIC member states and others.

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• Registration outcome will be shared through email, therefore, please give your valid email address.

Pre-Requisite:

• Education: MS or above
• Fields: Natural Sciences/Applied Biological Sciences/ Microbiologist/ Virologist/Medicine/Molecular Biology

A Collaboration between OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (OIC-COMSTECH) and Universiti Putra Malaysia, under the COMSTECH Distinguished Scholars Program

Date: 13-17 July, 2026
Venue: Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Instructor:
Professor Ts. Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim, FTWAS, FASc, FIVMM
COMSTECH Distinguished Scholar
Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Email: rahinah@upm.edu.my

About the EAGLE Program:
EAGLE stands for Excellence Accelerator for Grounded Learning Environment. It is a structured academic support framework designed to help postgraduate students complete their research. By understanding their cultural and language behaviors, PhD students can be more efficient and independent to manage their PhD journey.
The EAGLE techniques and tools were developed from the founder’s first-hand experience overcoming significant challenges during her PhD at Stanford University, combined with over two decades of supervising as well as teaching research methodology at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). These techniques have been successfully applied to numerous postgraduate students, including supervised graduates and external postgraduate researchers.
Unlike conventional approaches that are method-centric or language-focused, EAGLE adopts a theory-centric and content-driven approach. It prioritizes strong theoretical grounding and
logical argumentation before technical writing or methodological detail.

Through EAGLE, participants learn to:

• Identify missing or weak components in their thesis;
• How to relate theory to develop research methodology;
• How to link data to theory;
• How to align results with theory;
• Reduce writing time through content restructuring;
• Identify whether thesis has potential to create intellectual property (IP) asset; and
• Develop confidence as independent scholarly researchers

Overall, the EAGLE framework accelerates postgraduate progress by strengthening critical thinking, clarifying structural impacts, and improving academic independence—key factors for timely and high-quality research completion.

About the Lead Trainer:
Professor Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim is an entrepreneurial design scientist who strives working with transdisciplinary peers especially when Arts and Humanities merge with S&T to produce an invention appropriate to serve vulnerable communities. Trained by Stanford Research Institute and Oxford University Innovations in innovations and entrepreneurship and permitted to become Co-Founder of Grounded Learning (M) Sdn. Bhd. —a startup company under UPM’s Innohub—to commercialize the EAGLE Program. Prof. Rahinah
believes that having innovation and entrepreneurship knowledge during R&D phase would improve an invention’s market acceptance later. Moreover, applying proven R&D outputs in classrooms would allow students to jump start their life-long learning before a product even hits the market. She is a strong advocate for Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities to make STEAM impacts to the world. She has graduated 33 Master/PhD students and is Principal Inventor for 23 intellectual properties (IP).

Program Synopsis:
The PhD Finishing Program is an intensive, structured academic workshop designed to enable PhD candidates to consolidate, rescue, and reinforce their research work from Chapter 1 through to Chapter 6 of their thesis.
The program focuses on diagnosing weaknesses in participants’ existing research progress and systematically rebuilding a strong, defensible research foundation. Through guided lectures, applied in-class work, participants are led through a process of alignment between research questions, theoretical framing, methodology, and data.
This program is especially designed for candidates who have already started their PhD but are experiencing difficulty in progressing, maintaining coherence, or completing their thesis within the expected timeframe.

By the end of the program, participants will produce:

• A working thesis draft covering Chapter 1 to Chapter 5 or 6, depending on their current research stage
• A clear research overview of their thesis
• An improved thesis structure ready for supervisor review
• A revised and defensible thesis

Objectives:

• Diagnose and evaluate each participant’s current PhD research progress
• Identify conceptual, theoretical, and methodological gaps in the thesis
• Reinforce the coherence between research questions, theory, and methods
• Guide participants in restructuring and strengthening their thesis chapters
• Enable participants to produce a working thesis draft by the end of the program depending on their current PhD progress

Program Format s Schedule:
Mode: Physical, face-to-face, participants remain on-site
Duration: 5 days (9am-5pm)
Schedule: Click here to download

Target Participants:

• This program is designed for:
• PhD candidates who have already started their PhD
• Candidates who have begun proposal writing, data collection, or analysis
• Candidates who are stucked, delayed, or uncertain about the quality and coherence of their thesis
  
  Prerequisite:
• PhD candidates who have already started their PhD studies.
• Have at least a draft research proposal, or draft chapters, or data collected, or ongoing thesis work.
• From an OIC Member State currently residing in Malaysia.

Registration:
For registration, please fill out the following form along with required documents: https://form.jotform.com/261059258880465
Note:
Please note that this a physical on-site training, for limited candidates from OIC Member States currently resident in Malaysia. The selected candidates will have to cover their own travel and accommodation (if from outside the city).
This program is especially designed for candidates who have already started their PhD but are experiencing difficulty in progressing, maintaining coherence, or completing their thesis within the expected timeframe.

Queries
For any queries, please contact at: haseeb.ahmad@comstech.org

Date: June 9-10^th, 2026
Venue: COMSTECH Secretariat, 33. Constitution Avenue, G-5/2,Islamabad, Pakistan

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OIC- Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, and Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) is pleased to announce the “ Exhibition and Seminar on Research, Processing, and Product Development of Herbal Mediicnes: Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into National Healthcare Systems.” At the COMSTECH Secretariat, 33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad, Pakistan. Islamabad, Pakistan

This important Exhibition and Seminar is aimed to bring together playmakers, regulators, practitioners, industry experts, traditional practitioners, researchers, and healthcare professionals to deliberate and advancing herbal medicines, promoting sustainable processing techniques, research, enabling the integration of traditional healing practices into main national healthcare systems.   

The seminar will focus on:
1. Showcasing research advancements in medicinal plants, and phytopharmaceuticals.
2. Highlighting modern processing technologies, and quality control mechanisms.
3. Promoting product development, aligned with international standards.
4. Facilitating collaboration between researchers, regulators, industry, and traditional practitioners.
5. Encouraging the integration of validated traditional healing practices into mainstream Systems,
6. Working towards the compilation of “National Herbal Pharmacopoeia”

This Exhibition and Seminar will provide an important and interactive platform for Unani Tabeeb, health policy makers, academicians, regulators, researchers, pharmacists, homeopathy   practitioners, and other healthcare professionals to exchange their knowledge, share experinces and intergration of Unani, Homeopathy and other Traditional practices into main national healthcare system. 

Who can Attend?

1.  Unani Tabeeb, Homeopath, and their educational  institutions.
2. Tibbi and homeopathic pharmaceutical manufacturers association.
3. Regulators of National Council for Tibb, National Council Homeopathy, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan.
4. Pharmacists involved in manufacturing of Unani, Herbal, Nutraceutical, Chinese, Traditional, Homeopathic medicines, and Medicated Cosmetics.

• Representatives from relevant professional associations, societies, hospitals, and stakeholders,

• Policy makers from Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Planning Commission, and Ministry of Law and Justice.

Interested participants are encouraged to register online using the link provided below.
Registration link: Click Here
Address: OIC-COMSTECH Secretariat, 33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad, Pakistan

      Dr. Abdur Rashid
Consultant (Health Initiatives)
Phone No: +92 51 9220681-3
Mobile No: +92 321 5255442
Email: rashid.consultant@comstech.org.

DRAP Office:
Mr. Ammar Ashraf, Deputy Director, CEO Office:
Mobile No; +92 333 8149272
Email Address: ammar.ashraf@dra.gov.pk

Bridging Science & Tradition for a Healthier Future

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Flyer in Arabic: Click Here

Symposium Details:

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) of China and Traditional Unani Medicine (TUM) of Pakistan are two major important traditional medical systems in the world. In the thousands of years of combating diseases, both have accumulated rich clinical practice experience and a large number of effective traditional pharmaceutical products, playing a pivotal role in safeguarding the health of the people in China and Pakistan.

China and Pakistan are embracing new strategic opportunities in the field of international cooperation on traditional medicines. To promote international cooperation in the R&D of TCM and Unani medicine, deepen exchanges and collaboration between China and Pakistan in the field of traditional medicine, and further enhance the capacity and level of traditional medicine in serving the health of the two peoples, we plan to hold the 2026 China-Pakistan International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Unani Medicine & the Launching Ceremony of the Zhejiang-Pakistan Joint Laboratory for Herbal Medicine Research and Development. Representatives from competent authorities, hospitals, universities, research institutes and enterprises engaged in the traditional medicine sector in China and Pakistan are cordially invited to attend the event. Enterprises in related fields are welcome to participate in the exhibition and exchange activities.

Learning Objectives:

• Strengthen China–Pakistan-OIC-COMSTECH scientific collaboration
• Promote research & development in herbal medicine
• Encourage academic and industrial partnerships
• Share latest advancements in TCM, and modern medicine

Target Audience:

• Researchers & Scientists
• Medical & Biotechnology Professionals
• Faculty Members & Students
• Industry Experts in Herbal Medicine
• Poster of Certified Course:  Attached

• Registration Deadline: 25^th –May -2026

• Registration link: Click Here

• Conference Venue:  Ningbo, China

• Conference Date: June 3rd to June 6th, 2026

Date: 20-21^st May, 2026

Objectives: The proposed dialogue at COMSTECH aims to foster a “Triangulated brainstorm session to help in developing Roadmap” between state regulators, academia, Industry, researchers, and international technical partners to transition from extraction to value-addition. 

The specific aims of the Symposium are:

• Sharing the latest status and developments in the mining and minerals sector among all stakeholders, with particular emphasis on OIC member states.
• Deliberating about the potential of the sector for growth and its contributions to the sustainable economic development of the OIC nations
• Exploring the challenges hampering the growth and devising strategies for interventions in technology and automation, HR development, and harmonizing the legal framework
• Promote better understanding, Challenges and solution towards regulating the sector and future collaboration among OIC nations.

While focusing to the Mines and Minerals sector, it is mentioned in the STI policy document that apart from oil and gas, the OIC region is blessed with large mineral deposits. The uncharted coastlines promise much more. All this needs to be mapped and disseminated. It is therefore recommended in line with STI Agenda-2026 to prepare a Minerals Directory of OIS States OIC Member States; enhance capabilities of OIC Member States for sustainable exploration and mining, and development of high-value added products, research, training, and safety; and jointly prepare a series of Geological and Geophysical Surveys for more effective site classification and monitoring of geo-hazard assessment of major settlement areas in OIC countries.

Registration Link:  https://forms.gle/huEJr3iAL2wwPWv68

Muhammad Tufail
Programme Officer
OIC Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific
and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH)
33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad- Pakistan
Cell: +923439140306
mtofil@comstech.org

Registration Link: Click Here
Date & Time: May 19^th, 2026 09:30 AM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

Organized under COMSTECH Center for Training & Research in AI & Emerging Technologies
11-15 May, 2026
COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad

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Introduction:

Quantum computation and Quantum Information are rapidly emerging as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize fields such as quantum chemistry, data communication, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and medical science. Unlike classical computers, which relies on bits, quantum computers leverage qubits and quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform calculations at unprecedented speeds.

Despite its promise, quantum computation and quantum information remain in its early stages of adoption, with limited awareness and technical capacity in many parts of the world. Building human capital and research capacity is critical to ensure that developing countries are not left behind in this new technological era.

The proposed Training Workshop on Quantum Computation & Quantum Information aims to build foundational knowledge, practical skills, and collaborative networks among researchers, students, and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Objectives:

The training workshop aims to:

• Introduce participants to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics underlying quantum computation and quantum information.
• Provide practical training on quantum algorithms, programming languages, and available quantum computing platforms.
• Explore real-world applications of quantum computing across different industries.
• Foster collaboration among participants, researchers, and industry experts.
• Inspire young scientists and innovators to engage in quantum research and development.

Target Audience:

• Graduate and postgraduate students in computer science, electronics, mathematics, physics, and engineering with basic understanding of Quantum Mechanics.
• University faculty and researchers working in the relevant fields.
• ICT professionals, data scientists, and innovators interested in emerging technologies.
• Policy stakeholders exploring quantum computation and quantum information applications in national strategies.

Duration & Format

Duration: 5 days

Format:

• Plenary seminars and training lectures by experts in quantum computation and quantum information.
  • Hands-on training with quantum programming environments.
  • Panel discussions with industry leaders on future opportunities and challenges.

Key Contents:
Key Thematic Areas:

• Quantum Mechanics Fundamentals
• Qubits, Quantum Gates & Circuits
• Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Machine Learning
• Quantum Cryptography & Quantum Security
• Hands-on Quantum Programming
• Future Applications & Challenges

Day 1: Introduction & Fundamentals

• Opening session & keynote address.
• Basics of quantum mechanics relevant to quantum computation and quantum information
• Introduction to qubits, superposition, and entanglement

Day 2: Foundation Concepts and Applications

• Qubits, Quantum Logic Gates & Circuits
• Quantum algorithms
• Practical session: programming

Day 3: Foundation Concepts and Applications

• Cryptography and cybersecurity
• Optimization in finance, logistics, and supply chains
• AI and machine learning applications
• Quantum parallelism and no-cloning

Day 4: Advanced Topics & Future Outlook

• Quantum hardware (superconducting qubits, ion traps, photonics)
• Error correction and scalability challenges
• Panel: “Building a Quantum Ecosystem in Developing Countries”

Day 5: Advanced topics and closing

• Group projects: solving real-world problems using quantum computing platforms
• Advanced Quantum Technologies
• Closing session & certificates

Expected Outcomes

• Enhanced knowledge and skills in quantum computation and quantum information.
• Increased awareness of practical applications of quantum computation and quantum information.
• Establishment of a local/regional network of quantum researchers and students.
• Recommendations for integrating quantum computing into academic curricula and research agendas.

Selected candidates will be notified through email; hence, applicants are required to check their emails.

Collaborators:

Technology Development Center, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan