On 25 and 26 March, more than 320 participants from some 50 European and African countries – including policy-makers and ICT researchers in the public and private sectors – attended the First Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research in Brussels to discuss the development of collaborative projects.
The Executive Board of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) is meeting at TWAS's headquarters in Trieste, Italy, from 30 to 31 March 2009.
A workshop is being held at TWAS headquarters examining best practices in advisory roles and fellowship appointments.
The most recent issue of the 'TWAS Newsletter' has just been posted.
TWAS Associate Fellow Marc Van Montagu, Founder and Chairman of the Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries (IPBO) at Ghent University in Belgium, received the Genome Valley Award 2009 from Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state Andhra Pradesh, during the inaugural ceremony of BioAsia 2009 held at Hyderabad, India, from 1 to 4 February 2009.
"Africa's universities must be reformed and strengthened, and each African country must have at least one world-class university." This was the key message conveyed by Mohamed H.A. Hassan, executive director of TWAS, at the Conference of Regional and Interregional Cooperation to Strengthen Basic Sciences in Developing Countries, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1-4 September 2009.
ICGEB, TWAS and UNESCO/IBSP are pleased to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through the implementation of the "Joint Project on Capacity Building in Basic Molecular Biology".
SciDev.Net carries an article by Arturo Barba about the statement that marked the end of TWAS's 25th anniversary celebration.