December 12-16, 2012
Event: USA-Muslim World Science & Technology Convergence Summit
Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
Description: The Summit is organized by a consortium of Moroccan and International Universities as well as public and private partners. It will be attended by more than 5,000 high level research scientists, academia and technology suppliers as well as by Mayors, Presidents of Local Councils and Regions, Ministers, Investors and NGOs. The Summit’s major objective is to set up an annual platform to coordinate existing outreach programs and to stimulate decentralized cooperation between universities, laboratories, enterprises, cities, counties, regions, and R&D organizations. Overall, participants and organizers hope to catalyze and foster partnerships between academia, governments and the private sector in order to add value to industry, public sectors, and citizens. It's rather a cooperation and partnership platform, including a professional social network intended to perpetuate interactions between participants, exhibitors, sponsors, and decision makers. The summit will feature also a large exhibition dedicated to suppliers of the latest technologies and innovations, universities, laboratories, scientific societies and associations, international organizations, Cities Associations, and Regions and Country Pavilions. The Global Knowledge Initiative’s Chief Operating Officer Sara Farley will serve as an International Committee Member and guest speaker at the Summit’s International Education Technology Forum.
Host: Consortium of Moroccan and International Universities
Contact: General Information Request Form: http://www.usamuslimworld.com/my-summit-2012/general-info-request/
Website: http://www.usamuslimworld.com/index.htm
August 5-10, 2012
Event: 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy
Location: Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire
Description: The theme of the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy is “Science and Technology Policy in Global Context” and will delve deeply into this range of issues, asking how the questions and answers of science and technology policy need to change in response to international developments. The program will tap the best recent research on the global dimensions of research, innovation, human resource, and regulatory policies, as well as perspectives from S&T policy practitioners from around the world. The Global Knowledge Initiative’s Chief Operating Officer Sara Farley will be presenting a lecture entitled, “Harnessing Global Capabilities Through Collaborative Innovation: Tapping the Talents of the World’s 7 Billion Solvers.”
Host: Gordon Research Conferences
Contact: Susan Cozzens, scozzens@gatech.edu or Jack Stilgoe, jackstilgoe@gmail.com
Website: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=scipolicy
August 20-24, 2012
Event: 3rd International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD 2012): Research for Global Transformation
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Description: The conference will thus contribute to the international agendas currently being redrawn in view of Rio+20. Indeed, the post-Rio+20 era will require adapted policy frameworks, research approaches, and donor environments in order to seek synergies between research partnership projects in the North and the South and jointly identify entry points and pathways to sustainable development. The aim of the conference is to share and discuss the most recent insights on development-oriented research conducted in North-South partnerships and to develop an agenda for research partnerships with developing and transition countries.
Host: National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South
Contact: icrd@cde.unibe.ch
Website: http://www.icrd.ch/download/flyer_icrd_2012.pdf
July 1-4, 2012
Event: Climate Change And Population Conference On Africa
Location: Accra-Legon, Ghana
Description: The goals of the Conference will be to appraise knowledge on the development-wide impacts of climate change and variability, deepen scientific understanding of climate change events and contribute to relevant capacity, define long-term research and development capacity building priorities, promote science policy debates to manage global climate change impacts locally, and strengthen relevant risk communication and management strategies among stakeholders.
Host: University of Ghana
Contact: Phone: +233 302 500274 / +233 244 365916 Email: ripsconference@ug.edu.gh
Website: http://www.ug.edu.gh/climateconference/index1.php?linkid=1197
June 24-26, 2012
Event: 18th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference
Location: Hull, United Kingdom
Description: The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) aims to foster and communicate the importance of sustainable development in a global society. The society is a coalition of academic researchers, teachers, government, non-governmental organizations, and industry. It promotes inter- and trans-disciplinary research and education for sustainable development. The 18th Annual ISDR Conference is a peer-reviewed conference; abstracts are sent to reviewers and written comments will be provided to the authors. Papers from the conference are considered for publication in special issues of international scientific peer reviewed journals.
Host: University of Hull, UK
Contact: isdrc18@hull.ac.uk, +44 (0)1482 465948
Website: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/isdrc18.aspx
June 6-8, 2012
Event: Sixth National Conference on Science and Technology
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Description: The Nepal Academy of Science and Technology is an autonomous statutory body established with a mandate to work for the promotion and development of Science and Technology (S&T) in the country. As an apex body of its kind in S&T, it has the statutory obligation for providing a forum for all scientists and technologists working in different institutions of the country. The National Science Conference is a forum for scientists and technologists from all disciplines. The conference provides an opportunity to scientists and technologists not only to present their research findings, but also to share their experiences and views about national policies on S&T and their relevance for the nation’s development. The conference theme is "Economic Growth through Science, Technology and Innovation". The conference will seek to showcase how the broad range of research programs in the field of S&T along with innovation contributes to the economic growth and national development. It aims at bringing the scholars, scientists, and experts together on the same platform in order to discuss, interact, and debate about economic growth through the innovation in S&T.
Host: Nepal Academy of Science and Technology
Contact: conference@nast.org.np
Website: http://www.nast.org.np/alluploads/sixth_conference_brochure.pdf
May 13-18, 2012
Event: World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy 2012
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Description: Solving the interconnected challenges of water, climate, and energy in a sustainable manner is one of the fundamental goals of this generation. The Congress will explore the topics of resilient and sustainable cities with a focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation. The challenges of climate change adaptation and incorporating uncertainty into the city vision and infrastructure will be discussed together with the impacts and responses of climate change on water resources. Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, operating in a carbon constrained world, and a focus on renewable energy, including practical applications and integration in to the energy mix, will be covered. The congress will attract up to 2,000 international participants for this global event and will feature a large industry presence and trade exhibition.
Host: International Water Association (IWA)
Contact: Mary-Rose Rushe, 353-140-03660, info@iwa-wcedublin.orgWebsite: http://iwa-wcedublin.org/about/
April 28-29, 2012
Event: USA Science & Engineering Festival
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Description: The mission of the USA Science & Engineering Festival is to re-invigorate the interest of our nation’s youth in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by producing and presenting the most compelling, exciting, educational, and entertaining science festival in the United States. The Expo will offer multi-faceted programs with high entertainment value and integrity of scientific content; appeal to a large, diverse audience of all ages and backgrounds, from professionals to novices, from science enthusiasts to the merely curious; involve the most dynamic leaders in business, technology, government, education and culture; build a strong foundation of prestigious and impressive institutional partners resulting in increased communication between the scientific and educational communities; and create a science festival programming template to facilitate the development of more local festivals throughout the United States.
Host: American Chemical Society
Contact: Larry Block, 619-398-6360, lauray7@gmail.com
Website: http://www.usasciencefestival.org/preregister-for-expo
April 23-27, 2012
Event: Joint ICTP-TWAS Workshop on Entrepreneurship for Physicists and Engineers from Developing Countries
Location: Miramare, Trieste, Italy
Description: This one-week intensive workshop is designed for physicists and engineers from developing countries who are interested in learning entrepreneurial skills to commercialize their scientific inventions. The participants will benefit from the international perspective provided in this workshop from both experts and co-participants from developing countries. The objectives of this workshop are to introduce scientists and engineers to the process of innovation, generation and protection of intellectual property, technology transfer, and commercialization of a product.
Host: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IOP), and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
Contact: ICTP Secretariat, smr2335@ictp.itWebsite: http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?smr=0&ida=a11157
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