Sustainable development of all the world’s populations is articulated into 17 Sustainable Development Goals, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in september 2015, and towards which we must collectively strive. All these SDGs require the input of basic sciences.
The United Nations General Assembly approved by consensus a resolution that promulgates 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.
The Opening ceremony and conference will be held 8 July 2022 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Any organization or group of people is entitled to propose an activity to celebrate this international year between 1 January 2022 and 30 June 2023.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which is going on for over two years now, has costed too many lives, and disrupted even more.
Without the results produced for decades, and even centuries, by basic, curiosity-driven scientific research, however, the global situation would have been much worse.
Without basic sciences, how would we know that infection is caused by a virus, what does that virus look like, what are its genetic sequence and variations? I short, everything that helps us fight the pandemic and its consequences – are all rooted in basic sciences.
Even the World Wide Web, that you are using right now to read this, was invented at CERN from the need for global collaboration for experiments in fundamental physics and it has been developed thanks to powerful algorithms.
The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022 will will be a key moment of mobilization to convince economic and political leaders, as well as every citizen, of our dependence on basic science to ensure a balanced, sustainable, and inclusive development of the planet.
The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022 Steering Committee promotes open channels for scientific cooperation at large across all political and other divides, in the hope and expectation that enhanced scientific collaborations is an important way to develop improved understandings between different peoples thus contributing to world peace.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which is going on for over two years now, has costed too many lives, and disrupted even more.
Without the results produced for decades, and even centuries, by basic, curiosity-driven scientific research, however, the global situation would have been much worse.
Without basic sciences, how would we know that infection is caused by a virus, what does that virus look like, what are its genetic sequence and variations? I short, everything that helps us fight the pandemic and its consequences – are all rooted in basic sciences.
Even the World Wide Web, that you are using right now to read this, was invented at CERN from the need for global collaboration for experiments in fundamental physics and it has been developed thanks to powerful algorithms.
The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022 will will be a key moment of mobilization to convince economic and political leaders, as well as every citizen, of our dependence on basic science to ensure a balanced, sustainable, and inclusive development of the planet.
The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022 Steering Committee promotes open channels for scientific cooperation at large across all political and other divides, in the hope and expectation that enhanced scientific collaborations is an important way to develop improved understandings between different peoples thus contributing to world peace.
A recent post in developmentaid.org recalls how 2022 was proclaimed as the ‘Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’, and also how a newly-formed ‘Global Commission’ will raise $100m for SDGs.
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