2022 Maths Day: UNESCO’s toolkit to highlight value of Mathematics
On 14 March 2022, UNESCO is billed to launch a document to encourage decision makers to use mathematics, as part of commemorating the “2022 International Mathematics Day”.
IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 7 (A Christmas ‘calendar’)
To encourage Denmark citizens to talk more about science, the Niels Bohr Institute, has kickstarted the celebration of IYBSSD2022, with the launching of a ‘Christmas calendar’. Abdulsalam MAHMUD reports.
IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 6 (Mendel’s 200th birthday)
Aside the 200th birthday anniversary of Gregor Mendel, and Heinrich Schliemann, a host of other scientific projects, events and conferences will also happen in 2022.
‘For societal change to unfold, basic research is the foundation’
How does basic research acts as the foundation of societal change? This report by Abdulsalam MAHMUD explains.
IYBSSD2022: how a scientific year was born
Supported by numerous unions and scientific organizations, Abdulsalam MAHMUD reports that the idea to tag 2022 as ‘International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’, was mooted in 2017.
IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 8 (GECF visits UNESCO)
At a meeting in Paris, officials of Gas Exporting Countries Forum and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization identified new areas of cooperation between their organisations.
IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 3 (French scientist, Pasteur)
2022 marks 200 years after the birth of Louis Pasteur, a great French scientist. But aside it, Gerardo Herrera-Corral writes about other ‘mega’ scientific activities and events billed for the ongoing year.
IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 2 (Basic Sciences in India)
A writer, M. Ashraf Shah, has enumerated ways to promote the development of basic sciences in India, in his Op-ed article published by DailyExcelsior, a scientific blog.
IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 1 (excited Trianon scientists)
In a blog post by her co-Founder, Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik, Trianon Scientific Communication, reveals how it plans to celebrate the ‘International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’. Abdulsalam MAHMUD reports.
‘IYBSSD2022 will improve links between basic sciences and 17 SDGs’
The ‘International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’ provides an opportunity to improve the links between basic sciences and the 17 SDGs, according to SKA Observatory.
