According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Nosratollah Zargham, president of Iranian National Science Foundation, stated about the hosting of the global committee of research in 2018: Iran has become a member of this committee for a few years now, and the fund suggested the holding of meetings in Iran, which was accepted. The members of this committee are from various countries and regional and global meetings are held on a yearly basis.

Zargham continued: the basis of its activities is dealing with fundamental issues in the area of research, so that the area could be reviewed with a futuristic perspective. This way, the scientific capacities of the country are understood, which can help the development of international interactions of the country since there is a great need for increased interactions in order to develop activities in this area. In a way, holding of these meetings in Iran is a technique to communicate with the global scientific network.

In this respect, general information Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) was the host of meetings of the global research committee and regional meetings of Asia and Oceania will be held in Iran, specifically the national science foundation.

The global research committee is an international organization encompassed on heads of science foundations of the world, virtual secretary of which is located in the research council of England. In addition to global meetings, this committee holds a meeting every year in the form of the regional meeting, where international managers of science foundations of each region come together to talk about pre-determined issues.