Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven visited Iran on 11–12 February 2017. Several bilateral cooperation agreements were signed during the visit in areas such as higher education and research, transportation, technology and innovation, information technology, etc.

Following the visiting of the Minister for European Union Affairs and Trade of Sweden (Ms Ann Linde) to Tehran, a MoU was signed with Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) of Iran for higher education and research.

The University of Guilan is appointed as the focal point by MSRT for international cooperation of Iranian Universities with Swedish Universities.