A brief history of the World Science Forum

In November 2009, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences will be organizing the fourth World Science Forum in Budapest, in partnership with UNESCO’s Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development and the European Commission. The theme of the Forum will be a 10-year review of follow-up to the World Conference on Science organized by UNESCO and the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Budapest in 1999.

Read on for a brief history of how the World Conference of Science paved the ground for the establishment of the World Science Forum, a biennial event which aspires to become the ‘Davos of Science’.

Rationale behind the World Conference on Science (1999)
Programme of the World Conference on Science
Outcome of the World Conference on Science
Follow-up to the World Conference on Science
The World Science Forum
The first World Science Forum on Knowledge and Society (2003)
The second World Science Forum on Knowledge, Ethics and Responsibility (2005)
The third World Science Forum on Investing in knowledge: Investing in the Future (2007)
Speakers at the three World Science Fora
Tomorrow’s Davos of Science?y

Useful links

Go directly to the website of the World Conference on Science
Go directly to the website of the World Science Forum

Science Popularization

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