Ursula Bassler
Scientific Director, French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, IN2P3; former President, CERN Council
About the opening ceremony
Ministers in charge of Scientific Research, Higher Education and Innovation will debate with scientists about the importance of basic sciences in addressing the challenges set up by the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Scientists from different parts of the world will explain what they are already doing, and discuss what they could do better, so that their work, and the way they conduct it, build a more sustainable future.
This opening ceremony is an important step in the journey that scientists, citizens and policy makers will take together throughout this International Year to ensure that basic science plays a full role in efforts to achieve more sustainable development around the world.
Speakers
H.E. Huỳnh Thành Đạt
Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam
Luc Aguilar
Research Director, Skin Microbiome and Exposome, L’Oréal
Niels Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr International Academy, Denmark
Pierre Léna
Honorary President of the Office for Climate Education
H.E. Mohamed Belhocine
African Union Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI)
H.E. Wang Zhigang
Minister and Secretary of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
Mike Stratton
Director, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Low Teck Seng
Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
H.E. Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel “Blade” Nzimande
Minister of Higher Education, Science & Innovation, South Africa
Audrey Azoulay
Director-General, UNESCO
Francine Ntoumi
Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases-Christophe Mérieux, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Charlotte Warakaulle
Director for International Relations, CERN
Shamila Nair-Bedouelle
Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Natural Sciences
Giorgio Parisi
Emeritus professor, Rome University La Sapienza; Physics Nobel Prize laureate 2021
Serge Haroche
Honorary Professor, Collège de France; Nobel laureate (2012)
Atish Dabholkar
Director, ICTP; Assistant Director General, UNESCO
Khaled Toukan
Director, SESAME
Luca Marchetti
Assistant Professor at University of Trento and Supervisor of the Computational Biology Group at The Microsoft Research – University of Trento COSBI
Mansurah Abdulazeez
Head, Health Research Group, Centre for Biotechnology Research, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Mu-ming Pu
Scientific Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chair of Organizing Committee, China Brain Project
Mercedes Bustamante
Full Professor, University of Brasília, Brasil
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Ordinarius Professor for Physical Chemistry; Founding Director of the Linz Institute for Organic Solarcells (LIOS), Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Tandong Yao
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Co-chair of Third Pole Environment Program, chief scientist of the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research program
Mamphela Ramphele
Co president, The Club of Rome
Barry Barish
Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Caltech; Distringuished Professor, University of California, Riverside
Hany Helal
President of Senghor University in Alexandria; Professor, Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering; Former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Egypt.
Karen Hallberg
Associate Professor at the Balseiro Institute; Principal Researcher at the Bariloche Atomic Center (Argentine Commission for Atomic Energy)
Rui Bai
Associate Research Fellow, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
Dominique Leglu
Editorial Director, Sciences et Avenir and La Recherche, France
H.E. Luther Castillo Harry
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S. E. Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya
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Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Professor Emeritus, University of Hamburg, Germany; former Director General, CERN
Merieme Chadid
President of the Conuncile of the UNESCO International basic sciences programme
Michel Spiro
Chair of the steering committee of IYBSSD 2022 – President of IUPAP
What is the IYBSSD
What is the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development
Main topics
- Enhancing inclusive participation in science
- Strengthening education and scientific training
- Financing basic sciences
- Generalize open science
Main themes
- Strengthening the presence and the visibility of women
- Basic sciences as sources of international dialogue and peace
- Science as a global public good
- Innovation and economic development
- Education and human development
- Meeting global challenges
Schedule
- 8 July 2022 – Opening ceremony – Paris, France
- 13-15 September 2022 – Science and ethics for sustainable development – Quy Nhon, Viet Nam
- 20-22 September 2022 – World conference on basic sciences and sustainable development – Belgrade, Serbia
Main topics
- Enhancing inclusive participation in science
- Strengthening education and scientific training
- Financing basic sciences
- Generalize open science
Main themes
- Strengthening the presence and the visibility of women
- Basic sciences as sources of international dialogue and peace
- Science as a global public good
- Innovation and economic development
- Education and human development
- Meeting global challenges
Schedule
- 8 July 2022 – Opening ceremony – Paris, France
- 13-15 September 2022 – Science and ethics for sustainable development – Quy Nhon, Viet Nam
- 20-22 September 2022 – World conference on basic sciences and sustainable development – Belgrade, Serbia
Basic sciences and sustainable development
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? In 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 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.
Basic sciences and sustainable development
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? In 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 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.
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