HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President of the Higher Council for Science and Technology (HCST), called for the use of nanotechnology to develop innovative policies and scenarios that will enable us to address the challenges facing the region.
The Ninth Conference of the Petra International School of Physics at the University of Jordan was held through cooperation between the University of Jordan, Yarmouk University and The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, based in Italy. During his sponsorship of the conference which came under the title (Nanotechnology: Basics and Applications), Prince El Hassan affirmed the importance of the concept of ethics in science and innovation which aim to place human at the top priorities.
Prince El Hassan also referred to the importance of using the nanotechnology due to its impact on various sectors and fields in life and science stressing the need to develop the region's potential capacity and to develop regional participants to meet the challenges through holding, supporting and activating the information systems regionally and nationally. He also called for identifying priorities, concepts and overall vision before starting programs and projects as well as developing a system that enables us to move from crisis management to crisis prevention.
The Chairman of the organizing Committee for the conference, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Jordan Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hussein, said that nanotechnology is considered the basis of a new industrial revolution and it will lead to huge leaps in all the branches of basic science and engineering; he also added that it represents a great opportunity for countries with limited resources to build a knowledge economy that will find solutions for societal problems. Furthermore, he stated that such technology became the focus of a large number of universities and scientific research centers, while pointing out that the University of Jordan is seeking to establish a National Center for Nanotechnology Research in cooperation with the Higher Council of Science and Technology.
130 researchers from the USA, UK, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan participated in the Ninth Conference of Petra International School of physics aiming at stimulating the scientific research in physics and basic sciences, providing a platform for exchanging scientific ideas and experiences among researchers. HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal is the founder of the Petra International Physics School in 1980; it held its first conference in 1982 through cooperation between the University of Jordan, Yarmouk University and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
