History

SASTIW History 

The first International Congress on "The Advancement of Science and Technology in the Islamic World" was held in Tehran in 1993. Since then the permanent Secretariat for the Advancement of Science and Technology was established at the University of Tehran by the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS), Iran's Academy of Science and The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. In October 2003, the missions and structure of SASTIW were clearly defined by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology and in 2006; SASTIW's amended bylaw was approved by the Cabinet. At present, SASTIW board of directors operates from the Faculty of World Studies and the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Tehran and Professor Dr. Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi is the secretary general of SASTIW.