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Expanding Scientific Frontiers Via International Cooperation and Networking, with COST and NSF USA

CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, New York

The session is co-organized by the US National Science Foundation AccelNet Program and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, the COST Programme. We aim to promote the value of international networking to the advancement of science using examples from funding programs. The session includes an overview of the model used by each program, the...

Science Diplomacy in Times of Global Crisis with EU Science Diplomacy Alliance

Austrial Cultural Forum New York 11 E 52nd Street, New York

Science diplomacy is an often-promulgated concept for tackling global challenges in an increasingly interconnected and competitive world order. Science diplomacy fosters peace and understanding between nations and has often been utilized to argue for more cooperation and openness among adverse states. Can science diplomacy keep up with its promise in an ever-more fragmented multipolar world?...

Youth Changemakers in STEM and Advocacy: Empowering Young Leaders Globally to Achieve the SDGs

This session delves deeper into the journeys of several different youth STEM advocates, exemplifying how they lead education, activism, and awareness efforts in different areas of STEM, while still targeting the UN SDGs in their communities. From a scientific innovation perspective, Sahil Sood’s research into developing a potential COVID-19 therapeutic is at the forefront of...

AI Governance, Africa, and SDGs: Opportunities and Challenges

There is a dearth of African AI narratives in the global AI discourse which are important in understanding Africa’s AI needs, values, contexts, principles, data and expectations. This dearth is especially reflected in the lack of robust AI governance arrangements which contribute to neglecting and forgetting these narratives through epistemic injustice. This means that AI...

From Global Goals to Greener Plates: Empowering Nature with Sustainable Diets

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York

Armed with the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework, we embark on an immense and urgent challenge to ‘bend the curve’ of biodiversity loss by 2030. No matter how ambitious our conventional efforts are for protecting and restoring nature, these efforts alone will not be enough to bend this curve. Crucial transformative changes are needed in the...

Funding for Mission-Oriented Innovation in the Amazon

Ropes & Gray LLP 1211 6th Avenue, New York

This panel will discuss the potential to apply a Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy (MOIP) framework to contribute to the agenda of promoting sustainable development of the Amazon region while curbing deforestation from a perspective of funding R&D. Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy has been adopted, at different levels of government, as a valuable tool to direct STI Policies...

Creating a Roadmap Toward Global Quantum Education

Pupin Hall at Columbia University 538 W 120th Street, New York

Quantum computing is a new form of computing which utilizes quantum mechanics to perform calculations for problems previously impossible to solve. As with many technologies, quantum computing requires education and training. Without purposeful direction of education this will be yet another technology accessible only to a limited number of privileged few. We are organizing a...

Citizen Science for Digital Health and AI Research

The International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) and its global academic partners, namely United Nations University Institute in Macau (China), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), African Population and Health Research Center (Kenya), Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (Vietnam), Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (India) and Makerere University Centre for...

Brain Health and Research Day

As part of the European Brain Council (EBC)’s Global Partnerships in Brain Research activities, EBC, in collaboration with partner organizations, will organize a dedicated Brain Research Day at the Science Summit at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) this coming September 2023. In line with the Science Summit’s core focus of examining policy, regulatory and financial environments needed...

The Power and Possibility of Cooperatives

SAP New York Office

The global cooperative movement is over 200 years old, includes 2.6 million cooperative societies, boasts over 1 billion members, and commands a combined turnover of US$3 trillion among just the largest 300 cooperatives across the world. It is bigger in terms of membership than the trade union movement, economically more powerful than several G20 nations,...

Climate Governance: What Can Engineers and Technicians Bring

The need to receive updated and good knowledge about climate change: Recent reports (IPCC, 2022) show that it is important to have a good scientific knowledge of the science of climate change, its impacts, and vulnerabilities to make the right decisions and implement measures both in terms of adaptation than mitigation. Governments and governmental institutions...

Sustainable Mobility and Gender Issues

Scholars have thought about gender and mobility over the past decades. It can be summarized in terms of the core question driving that line of research. In essence, one asks: ‘How does movement shape gender?’ and considers problems such as how processes of mobility/immobility shed light on the shifting power relations embedded in gender. The...

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