On Tuesday, 23 of February 2016 the scientific workshop on "Promotion Regulations and scientific Articles" was held in the auditorium of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences. The speaker of the session, Prof. Alijani the Director of the Center of Excellence for spatial analysis of environmental hazards told the academic staff participating in the meeting how to evaluate scientific papers in the evaluation committee of the university

The meeting also reviewed validation and indexing databases, journals and the scoring of articles was introduced to the participants. Then Prof. Alijani taught the participants how to write good journal articles, and finally at the end of the session, it was suggested and agreed to continue the same workshop weekly on Tuesdays

The first meeting of the Committee for International Academic Cooperation of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences was held on 6 of June 2016 in presence of Dr. Ezatollah Ghanavati Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Moosa Kamanroodi Research Deputy Dean, Dr. Hamid Jalalian Academic Deputy Dean, Dr. Asghar Tahmasebi, and Dr. Javad Sadidi. The committee aims to coordinate, track and field and facilitate the international cooperation of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences with Germany and DAAD center as its priority by appointing its members and the cooperation fields as mentioned in the following.

During the meeting Dr. Kamanroodi presented his coordination and follow-up reports with the University of Siegen in Germany for establishing cooperation with the Faculty of Geographical Sciences and finally it was decided that he will present the proposal for doing research projects and academic workshops with this University in the following meeting of the committee to be held on 13 of June 2016

A. he Committee Members                                                      B. Cooperation Fields

Dr. Ezatollah Ghanavati                                               Student exchange

Dr. Moosa Kamanroodi                                              Joint thesis and dissertations

Dr. Hamid Jalalian                                                       Sabbatical for students

Dr. Asghar Tahmasebi                                                 Sabbatical for Academic Staff

Dr. Javad Sadidi                                                          Joint academic workshops

Dr. Moslem Ghasemi                                                   Joint research projects

The Scientific presentation entitled "Geomatics in earthquake studies" was held on Tuesday 17 of May 2016 by Prof. Arun K. Saraf in faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran campus with the efforts of this faculty in cooperation with the help of Center of Excellence for Spatial Analysis and Environmental Hazards and scientific associations of the faculty of Geographical Sciences

On Saturday 20 of February 2016, a scientific meeting "Geography and Environmental Hazards" was jointly held by the Center of Excellence for spatial analysis and environmental hazards of Kharazmi University and the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development of Geographic Environments at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Shahid Beheshti

The opening ceremony of the auditorium of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Kharazmi University was held on 16 of February 2016 in the main building of Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Tehran Campus by participation of the University Board of Directors, Mr. Gholamhossein Jahandar Tehran's seventh zone deputy mayor and the associated staff, and the academic staff of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences