Derasat, UAE's Trends sign cooperation agreement

TDT | Manama

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Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) has signed a research and scientific cooperation agreement with Trends Research and Advisory in the United Arab Emirates.

The agreement was signed virtually by Derasat Executive Director Dr Hamad Ebrahim Al Abdullah and Trends CEO Dr Mohammed Abdullah Al Ali.

Under the agreement, both parties enhance cooperation in areas of scientific and academic research, conduct joint research, allow the reciprocating secondment of experts and researchers, benefit from databases and information platforms, and organize events and activities.

Dr Al Abdullah stressed the importance of combining efforts and coordination between research and intellectual organizations and praised Trends' active role and significant contributions in the UAE, which enhanced its research placement and role in various areas, to present an analysis and understanding for a multitude of issues and developments surrounding the Arabian Gulf and Middle East regions.

He emphasized that this agreement supports Derasat's regional presence and continuous outreach with numerous global research centres and expands its partnership network with leading think tanks.

It also boosts the reputation it achieved specializing in Gulf and Arab-related issues and welcoming additional cooperation with pan-Gulf and -Arab research and studies centres and organizations.

The agreement opens cooperative prospects that help in raising work to the next level, to serve Gulf and Arab societies and fields of overall human knowledge.

Derasat's Executive Director also valued cooperating with colleagues in the UAE who, for years, have presented numerous achievements, reaching milestones of building national capacities and qualifying promising researchers who will comprise an integral part of the national intelligentsia.

Dr Al Ali said that the scientific and research cooperation agreement with Derasat is within the Advisory's special direction towards fostering scientific and research partnerships with prominent and influential regional and global think tanks. 

He stressed his aspiration for the advancement of joint scientific research with Derasat, as one of the region's leading centres, with its vital role in analyzing strategic developments at the national, regional, and international levels, as well as conducting relevant research that helps in understanding developing global issues.

Dr Al Ali said that the rapid developments witnessed in the region and beyond, and their resulting challenges, require utilizing the role assumed by think tanks to counter them, especially by analyzing and anticipating current and future multi-level implications, while assembling perceptions and preparing proposals that help decision-makers in dealing with them productively.