Our partners

OWSD is the first international forum to unite eminent women scientists from the developing and developed worlds with the objective of strengthening their role in the development process and promoting their representation in scientific and technological leadership. OWSD's secretariat is hosted by TWAS.

The S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences is an autonomous research institute under the Department of Science and Technology, India. It was established in 1986 in Salt Lake, Kolkata, and now has some 36 faculty and scientists active in physical sciences and related disciplines. The Centre and TWAS jointly offer the TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowship Programme and the TWAS-SN Bose Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.

The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is the major funding agency for research in the São Paulo State in Brazil. 

The Science and Development Network, SciDev.Net, is a unique science news website committed specifically to covering science and related policy issues in the developing world. TWAS was an early supporter of SciDev.Net, sharing its aim "to empower both individuals and communities in ways that will increase the impact of science and technology on sustainable development and the reduction of poverty."

The Science Initiative Group (SIG) at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in the USA is an international team of scientific leaders and supporters dedicated to fostering science in developing countries. SIG and TWAS have repeatedly collaborated over the years, inter alia in publishing some of the volumes in TWAS's Excellence in Science series.
 

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Türkiye. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a Scientific Board whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions.

TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities.

TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the  Supreme Council for Science and Technology, the highest science and technology policy making body in Türkiye.

The Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative is an international, NGO-driven project that seeks to expand the global conversation around SRM geoengineering research and its governance. The initiative is neutral on whether SRM should ever be used, and seeks to engage new voices in discussions of the underlying societal and scientific issues. A global pioneer in bringing developing country voices into SRM discussions, SRMGI co-organised the first major SRM discussion meetings in China, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica, Senegal, Brazil, and many other countries of the Global South, always in concert with local partners.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) provides essential support to TWAS, OWSD and GenderInSITE. Sida-supported programmes focus on research grants and PhD fellowships in 66 S&T-lagging countries, and support the TWAS Regional Offices and its science diplomacy programme. Sida is a government agency working under the Swedish Foreign Ministry. It administers approximately half of Sweden's budget for development assistance to developing countries.

Named after its founder, Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, ICTP provides scientists from developing countries with continuing education. TWAS's headquarters is located on the ICTP campus. Both organizations collaborate in various ways, for example by organizing such courses as the ICTP-TWAS School on functional analysis.

ANSO is a non-profit and non-governmental international scientific organization founded in 2018 by 37 international science and education institutions from around the world. ANSO is committed to promoting shared sustainable development and the advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through catalyzing and implementing concrete international cooperative initiatives in Science, Technology, Innovation and Capacity Building (STIC). It is envisaged that ANSO will focus on the most urgent regional and global challenges through STIC. This focus includes supporting scientific capacity building and the needs, particularly of the Global South, through partnerships and cooperation with the member countries and institutions. ANSO will also promote collaborations across the scientific and technological communities of the world to ensure that the benefits of the BRI are widely shared. There will be open access to scientific facilities and information among participants in ANSO. The grooming and empowerment of young scientists will be a particular focus of ANSO. The ANSO Scholarship is one of the main approaches to achieving this goal.

More about ANSO: http://www.anso.org.cn

The Elsevier Foundation provides grants to knowledge centered organizations around the world, with a focus on diversity and inclusion in science, technology and health, research in developing countries and global health. Since 2006, the Foundation has awarded more than 100 grants worth over $6 million to non-profit organizations working in these fields. The Elsevier Foundation is a US based, corporate not-for-profit 501(c)(3), funded by Elsevier, a leading scientific, technical and medical information solutions provider.

Under the umbrella of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), more than 140 national, regional and global member academies work together to support the vital role of science in seeking evidence-based solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.

The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) is the intergovernmental development finance institution established in 1976 by the Member States of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OFID amis to promote cooperation between OPEC Member Countries and other developing countries as an expression of South-South solidarity and to help particularly the poorer, low-income countries in pursuit of their social and economic advancement.

The Royal Society is a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. TWAS and the Royal Society collaborate in the framework of the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI) and are active members of IAP, the global network of science academies.

The UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries is a new global organisation dedicated to enhancing science, technology & innovation for sustainable development in the world’s 46 LDCs. We support national and regional technological efforts and help LDCs identify and use technologies to transform their economies and improve livelihoods.

The Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) is a leading research university in Malaysia. It is located in Serdang, next to Malaysia’s administrative capital city Putrajaya. As a world-renowned centre of learning and research, UPM has attracted students and staff from all around the world making it a well-respected global entity. UPM and TWAS jointly offer TWAS-UPM Fellowships for Visiting Scholars in Malaysia and the TWAS-UPM Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.

USM is a world-class institution of higher education that offers courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to approximately 20,000 students at 24 schools and 33 centres located in three university campuses in Malaysia. USM and TWAS collaborate in the organization of three fellowship programmes: postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships, plus one for visiting researchers in Malaysia.

The Diplomatische Akademie Wien - Vienna School of International Studies is the oldest professional school in the world, dedicated to preparing talented university and college graduates for international careers and positions of leadership in international organisations, the EU, in public service and in international business.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources. WMO are collaborating with the TWAS PhD fellowships.