BUK: How Nigerian university celebrated IYBSSD
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), in northwestern Nigeria, has joined the global community to celebrate the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD) 2022-2023.
30×30 conservation program launched for 2023 Ocean Day
Organizers of this year’s World Ocean Day have launched the 30×30 Conservation Action Focus program, together with the WOD 2023 Event Planning Toolkit.
Karen Halberg: ‘I hope IYBSSD will help reduce inequalities in the world’
In this interview during the opening ceremony of IYBSSD, Karen Hallberg of Centro Atómico de Bariloche, Argentina, hopes that the celebration of IYBSSD will contribute to reducing all forms of global inequality.
Spanish lottery
In Spain, the national lottery is very popular, and they usually use celebrations of a certain relevance as motives, and very often if they are scientific events.
IYBSSD, 8 other organisations to host scientific symposium
The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) and its partners will host the ‘Fundamental Life Science Meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability,’ an International Scientific Symposium in June 2023.
AFRAMED: Supporting research training through remote measurements
AFRAMED is a project financed for five years (2022–2026) by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It is an ambitious project for the development of crystallography in Africa.
Time to rehabilitate plurilingualism in science
This was the submission of a journalist at ‘Science in French, in Quebec and around the world,’ a scientific conference organized as part of celebrating the ‘International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’ (IYBSSD).
UL Opara: ‘With research infrastructure, young Africans will perform wonders’
In this interview during IYBSSD opening ceremony, Umezuruike Linus Opara of the UNESCO International Centre for Biotechnology, argued that with quality research infrastructure, young people from Africa will be able to solve diverse world problems.
IUPAC and ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies in Chemistry’
In 2019, IUPAC started the “Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry” initiative. This article reviews the impact of the initiative and how it contributes to different areas, including sustainability, technology transfer, and education.
Open Science in the South
The second ‘Open Science in the South’ symposium held in Cotonou, Benin Republic, in October 2022, was a great success and resulted in many recommendations.
