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Education, research and public awareness for capacity building

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The Iranian Space Endeavor

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This chapter focuses on capacity building through the development of education, research, and public awareness, and reveals how education in the academic level played a key role in Iran’s space endeavor in terms of providing the specialized human resources and research on the subject.

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Tarikhi, P. (2015). Education, research and public awareness for capacity building. In: The Iranian Space Endeavor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05347-9_3

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