The first meeting of the joint commission of economic collaborations between Iran and Spain was held December 4^th-5^th, 2017 in the ministry of economy, industry and competitiveness of Madrid, Spain in the presence of the representative of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs and representatives of 10 knowledge-based companies in the areas of medication, medical and laboratory equipment, agriculture, oil and gas and information technology. Head of this committee is Mojtaba Khosrotaj, export deputy minister of industry, mining and trade and president of the organization for trade development of Iran, and Marisa Poncela, Spanish secretary of state for commerce.

During this meeting, both parties evaluated the capacities and areas of cooperation between the two countries and emphasized the establishment of various workgroups in the framework of development roadmap of bilateral collaborations, especially in areas of industrial technologies, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure.

Alaei Tabatabaei, director general for technology exchange, accompanied knowledge-based companies in this event and explained the cooperation opportunities between the technological organizations of the two countries. In addition, he recognized the priorities of advanced technologies area in Iran and the cooperation paths with Spanish companies in exchange of knowledge and creation of joint collaborations with the Iranian knowledge-based companies.

Director general for technology exchange also had an exclusive meeting with Ms. Vela, the deputy minister of the ministry of economy, industry and competitiveness of Spain. During this meeting, he reviewed the previous collaborations of the two countries, such as cooperation in Alba project, and requested more and extended cooperation and imitation of technological collaborations in all joint fields.

At the end of the joint commission, document of cooperation roadmap between the two countries, statement of the summit of the joint commission on economic cooperation between Iran and Spain, and a cooperation agreement between the export guarantee fund of Iran and Spanish export credit agency were signed.

Other programs of this travel were holding a commercial meeting between the knowledge-based companies of the two parties, during which the Iranian knowledge-based companies had serious negotiations with more than 50 Spanish companies, leading to the defining of considerable cooperation outlines.