TWAS and Forgea International announce a training course on "Capacity Building in Environment-related Issues in Geomining: Bioremediation and Phytoremediation Techniques for the Reclamation of Mine Sites" to be held on the island of Sardinia, Italy, from 2 to 14 March 2009.
Just confirmed: The First "EuroAfriCa-ICT Cooperation Forum" will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 and 26 March 2009.
Twenty-five years after TWAS was set up, Yojana Sharma examines whether the Academy is any nearer to achieving its ambitious goals.
On the occasion of TWAS's 25th anniversary, the Academy and NATURE Publishing Group are pleased to announce the publication of A World of Science in the Developing World.
In this week's issue (24 October) of SCIENCE magazine, TWAS Executive Director Mohamed H.A. Hassan notes that the global scientific community has recently been split into three worlds: the North, the surging South, and the stagnant South. He warns that those countries that are still lagging behind in science and technology should not be ignored, lest they be further marginalized.
TWAS is endorsing a new project designed to promote science to school children and students
Nature magazine is running a series of articles entitled "Meetings That Changed The World". The series covers six scientific meetings that "had such a great impact they can be said to have changed the world." Among the meetings featured: the conference that led to the establishment of CERN, the Bellagio Conference that ushered in the Green Revolution, and TWAS's Second General Conference in Beijing in 1987 that marked the opening of China's scientific community to the world.
Dr. Albert T. Modi from South Africa (TWAS Young Affiliate 2008) and Dr. Benedict M. Taele from Lesotho (TWAS Young Affiliate 2007) have been selected to participate in the 2008 STS forum Future Leaders initiative.