KISTEP signed an MOU with the Scientific and Technical Information Center in Uzbekistan on Friday, July 28 for the purpose of promoting exchange and cooperation.

△ Abduvaliev Abdulaziz Abduvalievich, Director of the Scientific and Technical Information Center, and Byung-Seon Jeong, President of KISTEP.

STIC is a center under the Ministry of Innovative Development and was established with the goal of promoting Uzbekistan's S&T innovation activities in Central Asia. The center is actively involved in information analysis related to national projects, building electronic databases, and developing scientometric indicators.

Based on this agreement, the two organizations plan to cooperate in various fields of common interest such as establishing S&T information services and evaluating national S&T innovation capabilities by ▲promoting cooperative projects including joint research, seminars, and consultations and ▲activating human networks and information exchange between researchers.

△ Commemorative photo

"KISTEP is very pleased to have signed an MOU with STIC, a S&T innovation hub in Uzbekistan and Central Asia," President Jeong said. "With the signing of this MOU, we hope to transfer KISTEP's know-how, such as information analysis and database construction in the field of S&T innovation, and to promote mutual cooperation," he added.