Official Announces Details of Closing Ceremony of 3rd KANS Scientific Competition
The press conference of 2023 KANS Scientific Competition for researchers and scientists under 45 years of age was held on May 1st, 2023.
Saeid Sohrabpour, head of the 3rd KANS Scientific Competition, elaborated on the details of this round of the competition.
He first pointed to the different activities of the Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) including the Mustafa(pbuh) Prize, STEP (Science and Technology Exchange Program), KANS, and Noor, explaining “Most of the Muslim scientists have great effective collaborations with those in western countries. The Mustafa(pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation aims to foster collaborations among the scientists inside the Islamic countries.”
“In this round of the KANS scientific competition a new section is added,” he pointed out, stating that “this section, titled ‘The Future Scientist,’ is devoted to researchers under the age of 30. One individual is selected to receive the award for this section.”
In this round of KANS, ‘The Future Scientist’ is from Azerbaijan.
“The participants had to send 3-5 minute videos. The judges were university professors from around the country,” he noted.
According to Sohrabpour, “Among the received works, 20 works from 12 countries reached the final stage. In the final stage, 6 winners were selected.”
“The final judgment of these works was carried out online in April 2023 with the virtual presence of the participants,” he added.
“The usefulness of the participants’ ideas is of great importance in this competition,” he emphasized.
The 3rd KANS Scientific Competition ceremony will be held on May 9-12 concurrently with International Innovation and Technology Exhibition (INOTEX) 2023 in Pardis Technology Park.
Gholam Hossein Halvaei, Head of scientific and technological cooperation development at the MSTF, gave a speech during the press conference, pointing to other details about the event.
He briefly talked about the selection process, stating that 3 rounds of judgement were held. “We had 100 judges during the process,” he said.
“In the second round of KANS competition,” he pointed out, “we started to contact different organizations. These organizations present some challenges and problems. The KANS winners are linked to them so that their ideas may solve those challenges in real-life.”
“In the 3rd round of KANS scientific competition, we received 78 challenges from 16 pavilions,” he said.
He further noted that in this round of KANS, 881 works were received overall in 6 areas: "food and agriculture industries", "health and medical equipment", "water, energy and environment", "electricity, electronics and robotics", "information and communication technology and artificial intelligence" and "mining and mining industries."
Halvaei announced that the 6 winners in the areas of the competition are from different countries: in the field of “food and agriculture industries" from Qatar, “electricity, electronics and robotics" from Iran, “information and communication technology and artificial intelligence" from Malaysia, “health and medical equipment" from Iran, and “mining and mining industries” from Malaysia.
“On the last day of KANS Scientific Competition ceremony, the winners will present their works from morning to the afternoon,” Halvaei said.
KANS scientific competition is held biannually for researchers and scientists under 45 years of age, with the aim of promoting and developing science and technology for young scientists of the Islamic world.
The first round of this competition was held in 2018. The closing ceremony of the second round was held in May 2022. The call for the third round of the KANS Scientific Competition was released on October 29, 2022, requiring the applicants to upload their works in the form of a 3-5 minute video of their innovative and scientific solution to solve the significant problems of the Islamic world.
Source: MSTF Media
