The Islamic Development Bank and TWAS will explore cooperation in four areas: fellowships and grants focused on sustainability; advanced training workshops; support for refugee scientists; and assessing needs and resources in the 57 IDB countries.
Sudan is one of the Least Developed Countries, but Mustafa El Tayeb, president of The Future University, is working to build education and research – and to make the country a scientific leader among Arab countries.
At the TWAS roundtable opening the science festival Trieste Next, 21 September, four scientists from Europe and the MENA region offer their advice on effective cooperation in the Mediterranean basin.
After 14 months at UNESCO, Romain Murenzi returns to his former post as TWAS executive director. With the Academy accelerating work to build science capacity in the South, he brings new insights into the global science policy system.
By offering treatment for severe vision impairment and world-class training for medical staff, Tunisia's Nadi Al Bassar North African Center for Sight has emerged as a model institute for care and research in the developing world.
A rigourous, dispassionate approach to knowledge can build human understanding and help the world to navigate an era of uncertainty, eminent Iranian researcher Yousef Sobouti told the AAAS-TWAS science diplomacy course.
In the 2017 Paolo Budinich Science Diplomacy Lecture, eminent Iranian physicist Yousef Sobouti explores how the dispassionate precision of the "exact sciences" could help guide humanity through a time of challenge and instability.
The sea level is rising and in the decades ahead, the isolated island atoll of Kiribati could be submerged. Science diplomacy may offer a way for its people to keep their culture and their future alive.
The COMSTECH-sponsored awards range from honours for scientific work to excellence in scientific publishing. Applications are due by 31 October.
The 2018 awards honour superior achievement in the physical sciences by early-career women scientists from the developing world. The deadline: 15 September 2017.