Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)
July 24 2012 2012
The COMSATS’ community joins the Government and people of Ghana in mourning the sad demise of the President John Evans Atta Mills, who was elected as the Chairperson of COMSATS in April this year. Dr. Mills died at the age of 68 of throat cancer, on July 24, 2012. Considering the death of Dr. Mills …
July 09 2012 2012
The ‘5th Asian School on Renewable Energy: Advanced Micro-power Systems’ was co-organized by the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), from 9th to 13th July 2012, in Selangor, Malaysia. This international event was hosted by the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM); and had the …
June 06 2012 2012
A symposium on Sustainable Environment for Socio-economic Development was held on June 6, 2012, by the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) and its Centre of Excellence in Pakistan, the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT). The event featured talks on topics relating to the World Environment Day 2012 …
May 24 2012 2012
[ Introductory Remarks by the E.D. COMSATS ] [ Address by the Chairperson Coordinating Council ] [ Communiqué of the Meeting ] [ List of Participants ] [ Presentations ] [ Reports on ITRGs ] [ Picture Gallery ] The 15th Meeting of COMSATS Coordinating Council was successfully held on May 24-25, 2012, at Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey. The meeting was hosted by COMSATS’ Centre of Excellence in Turkey, the …
May 07 2012 2012
COMSATS and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) share a strong tradition of collaboration in S&T with each other and organizations with similar mandates. Since 2004, the two organizations have been collaborating for capacity-building and knowledge-sharing for socio-economic development of their Member States. On May 7, 2012, the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan …
April 17 2012 2012
[ Speeches ] [ Resolution ] [ List of Participants ] [ Video Clips ] [ Picture Gallery ] [ Media Coverage ] The 2nd Commission Meeting of COMSATS concluded on April 17, 2012, after having worked out broad policy guidelines for the future functioning of the Commission. The meeting was held at the level of Ministers appointed by the Heads of Member States. Around 53 country …
February 15 2012 2012
With an objective to sensitize the Ambassadors of COMSATS’ Member States in Pakistan about the upcoming Commission Meeting of COMSATS, the Minister for Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan, Mir Changez Khan Jamali, hosted a dinner meeting on 15th February 2012 at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT). The dinner meeting was attended by envoys …
February 02 2012 2012
A delegation of COMSATS visited the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on February 02, 2012. The ICTP and COMSATS, both being the brainchildren of Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam, share the objective of scientific advancement in the developing world. As a major force against the scientific brain drain from the developing world, ICTP …
February 02 2012 2012
In cognizance of its international role viz socio-economic development through science and technology, COMSATS has always endeavoured to consolidate and strengthen its Network of S&T Centres of Excellence, which provides the organization with the needed scientific and technological resource-base for national and regional programmes. The induction of a new centre, the University Cheikh Anta Diop …
February 01 2012 2012
A delegation led by the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. I.E. Qureshi, paid a visit to the Headquarters of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in Trieste, Italy, in order to discuss ways and means of further strengthening technical cooperation between the two organizations. Apart from the Executive Director COMSATS, the delegation members …
