TWAS is organising a free special event in Trieste, Italy, on Friday 2 September to mark the centennial of the scientist who helped establish the city as a renowned international scientific capital.
Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan is internationally respected as an advocate for research and education. In an interview with TWAS, she says that science and science diplomacy can help to create a more hopeful future.
Scientific organizations worldwide are invited to visit a new website to endorse ‘Open Data in a Big Data World’ – the accord developed by Science International to urge open access to publicly funded research data.
Science communication must be authentic and compelling and it must respect the cultural, gender and background differences of the audience, said Liz Neeley, an influential expert in communication.
In the course of evolving into a regional science centre, the Academy’s Sub-Saharan Africa office has launched a new website to bring its news and services under one roof.
A new book by TWAS Fellow Calestous Juma, ‘Innovation and Its Enemies’, explores the societal forces that stall problem-solving technologies, and presents strategies on how to outmanoeuvre those forces.
Science diplomacy is useful for creating international research groups, improving innovation policy and assembling high-impact government-science links, speakers said at the opening of the annual AAAS-TWAS summer course.
This year’s AAAS-TWAS science diplomacy summer course placed future science diplomats into a complex, simulated high-stakes negotiation, challenging them to reconcile one nation's interest in economic growth with another's desire for environmental conservation.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and TWAS President Bai Chunli agreed on plans to hold the 27th TWAS General Meeting in Kigali, the fourth time the event will be held in sub-Saharan Africa.
Biodiversity, international cooperation in times of political tension, and a role-playing exercise are core elements in the 3rd AAAS-TWAS workshop on science diplomacy, opening 11 July.