The success of implementing the plan depends on consensus and dialogue.

The planning was based on the fact that the process would be completed by the end of the year, but as I will explain, the nature of the work has caused disruptions in the schedule. According to the guidelines of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, the Academy is obliged to do this work by utilizing all the scientific and technological capacities of the country, not just by using the Academy’s own internal capacities. As you are aware, the Academy has several scientific groups, each of which has high scientific capacities. According to our work policy, the country’s comprehensive scientific map is conceptually divided into 16 main sections, with the sixteenth section related to the integration of these sections. In fact, the work is divided into 15 sections; these 15 sections include various visions, goals, indicators, priorities, and strategies in areas such as health, engineering, humanities, basic sciences, agriculture, higher education, education, knowledge-based economy, financing, international affairs, and other related sections. These are the components of the country's comprehensive scientific map. At the end of this map, the national division of labor and its implementation guarantee are also considered.

This mission has been entrusted to universities, research centers, and various departments of the country to go through the necessary process based on the methodology and methodology designed in the Academy, present the results, and finally integrate these results in the Academy. The goal of this method is to involve the country's science and technology experts and utilize collective wisdom in the decision-making and implementation process.

Naturally, some departments have done their work. Currently, we have entered the integration stage. Some departments are also in the final stages of completing their work packages, and some departments have not yet delivered them. In response to your question, at the beginning of Esfand 1403, more than 80 percent of the work has been completed and the remaining 20 percent is related to the integration stage. Now we are waiting to receive work packages from the agencies and universities to complete the integration process.

When I say agencies and universities, I want to emphasize that we have also presented the packages to the responsible executive agencies. For example, we have requested the Vice-Chancellor for Science to provide their opinion. This request has also been sent to the Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Education. Also, in parallel, these missions have been assigned to the academic bodies of the country that have expertise in that field. For example, we have asked the main universities of Tehran province and Azad University to cooperate in specialized packages in parallel. Recently, these missions have also been assigned in parallel to universities located in the provinces of the country to express their opinions in the specialized departments of each university. The same process is underway with the scientific associations approved by the Ministry of Science.

The opinions of the executive bodies, along with the opinions of universities and research centers, are integrated, summarized, and the map is updated in the commission, because we believe that in order to update the map and make it up-to-date, we must pay attention to both the future and the edges of knowledge and global events, which is more likely to come from the academic side, and we must also consider the existing realities of the country so that updating the map is both ideal and realistic.

Our planning horizon is for the next 10 years, and the map we currently have sets goals for the year 1414. Next year is the last year of setting goals for the map we currently have. I hope that next year, considering the process on the agenda, the map will be updated and an updated map for the next 10 years will be available to experts, academics, and actors in the field of science and technology.

The National Science Policy Research Institute recently held a conference entitled "Science and Technology in the Seventh Development Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran," which you also attended. About 6 or 7 important axes of the program in the field of science and technology were examined. In some panels, a point was raised that I would like to examine in the space of updating the map. One of the most frequently raised statements by experts was related to the way the program was written and summarized in the higher education sector. No one considers the contents to be wrong, but they emphasize that some changes and developments in the 90th minute in the process of summarizing the parliament have caused problems. The writing of some provisions is ambiguous and there are different perceptions of it. While its writing also took a year and a half and the previous program was extended for a year. What measures have you thought of to update the map and prevent the recurrence of problems similar to the seventh program so that these problems do not repeat?

It is a really good question. I mentioned this point in one of the panels. What happens in our country in the process of preparing, compiling, and approving national plans has a problem, and that is that in the first steps, good expert work is done, but in the approval process by various interested groups, this coherence is gradually lost. Each individual or each viewpoint tries to introduce their own views into the approval process. It is interesting to know that there are more than 30 priorities in the field of science and technology in the Seventh Plan. It is interesting that in previous years, the comprehensive plan was always criticized for having a plurality of priorities. The time period of the comprehensive plan - which was approved in 2010 and targeted until 1414 - was 15 years, but now there are a large number of priorities for the five-year plan. This is the structural problem that I mentioned. We must resolve this problem in the process of preparing, compiling, and approving national plans. More specifically, the problem is coherence, meaning that in different sectors, we now have so many useful and different plans and opinions that their collection cannot be accommodated within the country's resources and time frame.

The fact is that we also faced this problem in the previous comprehensive plan.