Research Institute for Cooperation Development

Introduction
Head of the Institute: Dr. Ali Asadi

Research Institute for Cooperative Development was founded in 2011. This institute was established in order to increase the impact of research and study activities, to expand the scientific and research communications, and to emphasis on optimum use of existing capacities and capabilities of universities to meet the research needs of the executive agencies. The main purposes of this institute are including developing research and educational activities in the areas of cooperation development and continuous formulation and assessment of the rural and agricultural cooperatives development strategies, based on the scientific capabilities of the University of Tehran.

The main mission and emphasis of this institute has been "carrying out applied and developed studies and pursuing these studies to achieve their goals". In this regard, Some of the projects carried out at the Institute are:

• Writing and follow-up the publishing of "Encyclopedia of Cooperation".
• "Determination of the technical and economic size of the agri-farms" related to the executive regulations of the law of prevention of agricultural land degradation and creation appropriate technical and economic farm size.
• "Analyzing the challenges and the strategies of rural development policy-making and management in Iran".
• "Writing the strategic document and action plan for the five selected agricultural companies and firms"

Research groups:

Research Institute for Cooperation Development has a scientific and research council and four research groups as follows:

1) Cooperative development studies group.
2) Planning and policy-making studies group.

3) Socio-economic studies group.
4) The group of publishing research findings.

At present, the educational facilities of Department of Agricultural Management and Development including:

-   Library,

-   Informatics center,

-   GIS workshop,

-   Conference halls,

Classrooms equipped with hardware and software.