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Events 2007
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Capacity-building in science and technology
27-30 November
UNESCO and ISESCO are organizing the 2007 South Asia and South East Asia Forum in New Delhi (India) on the theme of policy perspectives, challenges and
opportunities. The aim of the forum is to encourage international relations that speak across interdisciplinary and regional divides in the area of
science and technology and industrial development. It was at the South Asian Science Policy Forum organized by UNESCO two years ago that participants
recommended extending the next forum to include South-East Asia. The Forum will draw research scholars, academicians, Members of Parliament from the
Asia and Pacific region, industrialists and staff from government departments. Among the prominent speakers are Sh Arjun Singh, Hon. Minister of Human
Resources Development, and Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science, Technology and Ocean Development, in the Government of India, the representative of the
Directors-General of UNESCO and of ISESCO respectively and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology.
The Forum is being organized in association with the following bodies in New Delhi: Zaheer Science Foundation, National Institute of Science,
Technology and Development Studies and Indian National Science Academy, as well as with the International Council of Scientific Unions headquartered in
Paris. If you wish to participate in the Forum, please fill in the pre-registration form and send it to the
mohsinuk@yahoo.com.
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Asian-Pacific Regional Forum on the Popularization of Science
17–19 November
UNESC0’s Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development is organizing a regional forum in Asia-Pacific together with the Korea Science
Foundation to foster the role of science centres and museums in popularizing science in the region. The Forum will take place in Seoul.
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Award ceremony for UNESCO science prizes
10 November
On the occasion of World Science Day for Peace and Development, two UNESCO prizes will be awarded, the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental
Preservation and the Great-Man Made River International Water Prize for « Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas ». For the 2007
edition, the Sultan Qaboos Prize is shared by the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (Ethiopia) and Dr Julius Oszlányi (Slovakia). The
Great-Man Made River Prize has been attributed to two research teams in the USA, the first from the Centre for the Sustainability of
Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas at the University of Arizona and the second from the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote
Sensing at the University of California. The prize-giving ceremony will take place on 10 November at the Hungarian Parliament in the
presence of Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO. (More)
For further information on the previous celebrations, you are invited to visit the WSDPD Web pages:
2006 - 2005 - 2004 -
2003 - 2002
Origin of World Science Day
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World Science Forum
8-10 November
The theme of this year’s World Science Forum is Investing in Knowledge: Investing in the Future. A ‘Heads of State Panel’ will address the
issue of Responsibility for Future Generations while separate sessions focus on such topics as Science and Innovation as a Global Enterprise
and Investment in Knowledge on our Environment. UNESCO and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) will be organizing a third
session on The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: from Policy to Action. The World
Science Forum is organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in partnership with UNESCO and the European Commission. The Forum takes place
every two years in Budapest and coincides with World Science Day for Peace and Development on 10 November, itself an outcome of the World
Conference on Science organized by UNESCO and the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Budapest in 1999.
(More)
For details of UNESCO’s involvement in the World Science Forum, write to Mustafa El-Tayeb,
Director of the Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development.
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Executive Board
25 September - 11 October
Twice a year, the 58 Member States making up this governing body meet to examine the implementation of UNESCO’s programme and budget.
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Science, technology and innovation indicators – trends and challenges
18–20 September
UNESCO’s Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development is organizing a seminar cum workshop in Moscow, Russia, in tandem with the UNESCO Institute
for Statistics and UNESCO’s Moscow office for high-level technical staff and decision-makers from S&T policy bodies and universities in Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and Russia. Contact in Moscow and in Paris.
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Science and Technology Parks Development
3–5 September
UNESC0’s Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development is running a regional training workshop for managers and future managers from Asia and the
Pacific in Bogor, Indonesia, in collaboration with the Government of Indonesia, the Korean International Cooperation Agency, the World Technpolis Association
(WTA) and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The workshop will also select a science park for a UNESCO-WTA pilot project in the
region. contact.
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Science, Technology and Innovation for a Prosperous and Securer Islamic World
9-11 August
UNESCO is co-organizing this international symposium in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and
Innovation, and the Academy of Science of Malaysia. The Symposium will be preceded by a conference for young scientists from
Islamic countries on 6-7 August. The symposium has four co-sponsors: the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Islamic
Academy of Sciences, InterAcademy Panel and World Islamic Call Society. During the symposium, the
Consortium on Science, Technology and Innovation for the South (COSTIS) will be meeting
to discuss preparations for the first COSTIS conference, the date of which is yet to be confirmed. COSTIS was launched by the
Meeting of the Ministers of Science and Technology of the Group of 77 Member States in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September last
year.
Contact Mustafa El-Tayeb for details.
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Second Facilitation Meeting on Action Line C7 e-science
21 May
UNESCO, as the facilitator, and UNCTAD, as co-facilitator of the Action Line e-science, will organize
2nd Facilitation Meeting on Action Line C7 e-science, in Geneva, Switzerland, on 21 May 2007.
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G8-UNESCO World Forum on Education, Research and Innovation:
a New Partnership for Sustainable Development
10-12 May
Hosted by UNESCO’s Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (Italy), the G8-UNESCO World
Forum will build on discussion launched at the last G8 Summit in September 2006 on the interconnections between the
three components of the triangle of knowledge—education, scientific research and technological innovation—from the
perspective of sustainable development. The Forum will also seek to identify risks and opportunities for
industrialized countries as well as developing and low-income countries. (More)
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Science, Technology and Innovation top Africa's agenda
African leaders are poised to support science in Africa as never before. The African Union Summit
taking place in Addis Ababa from 22 to 30 January will take as its special theme Science, Technology and Innovation for
Africa's Socio-economic Development. The Summit is likely to give a strong push to the implementation of
Africa's
Consolidated Plan of Action. As the convener of the UN Cluster on Science and Technology, UNESCO contributed both
intellectually and financially to elaboration of the Plan and preparations for the Summit. UNESCO has also aligned its
programmes on African priorities, as illustrated in Science in Africa
(Eng - Fre).
Documents & Links.
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