IRDR host organisation in major merger
Beijing’s Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth has merged with the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications.
16.01.2013
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Call for nominations for Future Earth Science Committee
The Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, which comprises ICSU, ISSC, the Belmont Forum, UNEP, UNESCO, UNU and WMO as an observer, is currently seeking nominations for experts to serve on the first Science Committeee of the Future Earth initiative.
14.01.2013
Organisation of international scientific meetings: recommendations from ICSU policy committee
ICSU Statute 5 stands for the free and responsible practice of science, which also requires freedom of movement and of association. This entails rights and responsibilities on the part of both organisers and sponsors of as well as participants at international scientific meetings.
11.01.2013
Industry-academia partnerships
In November 2011, more than 50 academic and business leaders came together for 4 days at the Sigtuna Foundation, near Stockholm, Sweden. They represented a broad range of disciplines, industries and countries with the common aim of promoting effective partnerships between academia and industry for the greater benefit of society.
11.01.2013
Future Earth: Transition Team group met to discuss institutional design options
Working group 2 of the Transition Team, co-chaired by Peter Liss and Rik Leemans, met from July 11-13 at the ICSU secretariat in Paris to develop recommendations for the institutional design and governance framework of Future Earth.
11.01.2013
Recommendations from the Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation at Rio+20
The Forum was a great success, bringing together leading international scientists, policy-makers, industry, NGOs, journalists and youth from more than 75 countries. Over 1,000 people attended the event, with another 1,000 watching the live webcast and many more interacting via social media. Recommendations from the sessions are now online, alongside the live blog, recordings of the sessions and other information.
11.01.2013
How to Describe Nanomaterials – an ICSU workshop in Paris
In response to requests from several groups involved in preparing standards for nanotechnology, the International Council for Science and CODATA, the ICSU Committee on Data For Science and Technology, organized a workshop on 23-24 February 2012 to consider standards for describing materials on the nanoscale. A total of 51 international experts attended, including representatives of ten international unions, ISO Technical Committee 229 on Nanotechnology, industry, government and academia, national standards development organizations and the OECD.
11.01.2013
Paper published on ICSU’s programme on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
A paper that explores the purpose and modalities of ICSU’s new programme on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment has been published in the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
11.01.2013
The International Council for Science pledges support for scientists in the L’Aquila case
The International Council for Science (ICSU), as representative of the global scientific community, expresses its strong concern regarding the case of the six scientists who have been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six year prison terms because of their role in providing scientific advice prior to the earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009.
11.01.2013
ICSU paper on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) published by Nature
ICSU asserts that the best interdisciplinary research should underpin the development of goals, targets and indicators at global, regional and national levels.
11.01.2013