Cariscience is a sub-regional network of scientists bent on upgrading the academic excellence of graduate, postgraduate and R&D programmes in the Caribbean. Cariscience was launched in June 1999 in Jamaica and operates under the auspices of UNESCO.

The network strives to strengthen theoretical and practical knowledge in basic and applied sciences in the Caribbean, to increase the number of postgraduate and R&D programmes, and foster ties between these programmes. It also fosters linkages with the productive sector.

Cariscience coordinates exchanges between researchers, teachers and students, organizes joint research projects and regional courses, supports curriculum development and the training of science teachers. It is also supporting the development of an accreditation and evaluation system for postgraduate science programmes.

By encouraging scientists to communicate on their work, Cariscience also hopes to improve public understanding of science.

Harold Ramkissoon is Executive-Secretary of Cariscience. Professor of Mathematics at the University of the West Indies campus in Trinidad, he is also a founding member and past President of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences. He is Vice-President of the Caribbean Scientific Union, based in Bogotá (Colombia).

He is the author of the chapter on the Caricom countries in the UNESCO Science Report 2005. He also profiled both the Caricom countries and Cuba in UNESCO’s quarterly journal, A World of Science, in October 2005.

Read the Brochure on Cariscience