TEHRAN –The 14th National Conference of Elites is scheduled to be held from October 1 to 2 in Tehran.

The event will bring together 600 elites from all over the country, 200 of whom are women, IRNA reported.

The annual event provides an opportunity for elites, researchers, and scientific experts to get familiar with each other and share ideas on new scientific and research achievements in various fields.

On the first day of the conference, the participants are scheduled to meet President Masoud Pezeshkian and on the second day, they will meet Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

The conference focuses on different topics such as money and finance, governance and policy making, environment and natural resources, health system, food security, science, technology and knowledge-based economy, technologies, leading and strategic industries, new world order including issues such as regional developments and Iran's position, as well as soft technologies.

From the Iranian year 1395 (2016-2017) to 1400 (2021-2022), a total of  2,240 Iranian specialists and graduates returned to the country from the top 200 universities abroad, while in the next two years, 1,191 experts and elites got back to the country, Mehr news agency reported.

Some 170 elites who have returned to the country are recruited as faculty members in universities.

Also, around 250 projects were defined for cross-border cooperation with overseas elites instead of passing military service.