08:30 – 10:00
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Check-in
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10:00 – 10:30
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Welcome speeches
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Moderator: Ms Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
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Mr Xing Qu, Deputy Director-General, UNESCO |
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H.E. Dr Luther Castillo Harry, Secretary of Science,
Technology, and Scientific Innovation, Republic of Honduras, on behalf of H.E Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento, President of the Republic of Honduras |
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H.E. Csaba Kőrösi, President-elect, 77th United Nations General Assembly |
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Dr Michel Spiro, Chair, Steering Committee of IYBSSD2022; President, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics |
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Dr Merieme Chadid, President, Scientific Board of the UNESCO International Basic Sciences Program |
10:30 – 10:45
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UNESCO’s role in basic science: the beating heart of substainable development
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Ms Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
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10:45 – 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 12:30
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The role of basic sciences in decision making
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Ministers of science and high-level scientists discuss the importance of basic sciences in policy decision making, especially regarding the sustainable development challenges that we face.
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Moderator: Dr Rolf-Dieter Heuer, President, SESAME council; Professor Emeritus, University of Hamburg, Germany; former Director General, CERN |
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H.E. Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, Republic of Cuba (online) |
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H.E. Luther Castillo Harry, Secretary of Science, Technology, and Scientific Innovation, Republic of Honduras |
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H.E. Wang Zhigang, Minister and Secretary of Ministry of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China (online) |
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H.E. Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science & Innovation, Republic of South Africa |
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H.E. Huynh Thanh Dat, Minister of Science and Technology, Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
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Dr Low Teck Seng, Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Republic of Singapore (online) |
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Dr Serge Haroche, Honorary Professor, Collège de France, France, Physics Nobel Laureate (2012) |
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Dr Giorgio Parisi, Emeritus Professor, Rome University La Sapienza, Italy, Physics Nobel Laureate (2021) |
12:30 – 14:30
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Lunch
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14:30 – 14:40
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Strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics for the SDGs
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H.E. Mohamed Belhocine, African Union Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (video) |
14:40 – 15:45
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The Role of Basic Sciences in developping societies
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How do scientists contribute to the progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, with their results, and also in the way they are working and interacting with society?
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Moderator: Ms Dominique Leglu, Editorial Director, Science&Avenir La Recherche |
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Dr Rui Bai, Associate Research Fellow, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China (online)
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Dr Karen Hallberg, Research Director, Bariloche Atomic Centre, Argentina |
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Dr Hany Helal, President of Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt; Professor, Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering; Former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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Dr Barry Barish, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology, USA, Physics Nobel Laureate (2017) |
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Dr Francine Ntoumi, Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases-Christophe Mérieux, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo; Professor of Molecular Epidemiology of infectious Diseases, University of Tübingen, Germany (online)
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Remarks: Dr Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr International Academy, Denmark, Great-grandson of Niels Bohr |
15:45 – 16:00
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Coffee Break
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16:00 – 17:00
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Perspectives on Basic Sciences and the Sustainable Development Goals
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What are the challenges of Sustainable Development that basic sciences can help to address?
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Moderator: Ms Mamphela Ramphele, co-chair, Club of Rome |
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Dr 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, China (online)
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Dr Pierre Léna, Honorary President, Office for Climate Education, France |
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Dr Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Ordinarius Professor for Physical Chemistry; Founding Director of the Linz Institute for Organic Solarcells (LIOS), Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria (video) |
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Dr Mercedes Bustamante, Full Professor, University of Brasília, Brazil (onine)
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Dr Mu-ming Pu, Scientific Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chair of Organizing Committee, China Brain Project (online)
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Dr Mansurah Abdulazeez, Professor, Head of the Health Research Group, Centre for Biotechnology Research, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria |
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Dr Luca Marchetti, Assistant Professor, University of Trento; Supervisor of the Computational Biology Group at The Microsoft Research – University of Trento COSBI |
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Dr Luc Aguilar, Research Director, Skin Microbiome and Exposome, L’Oréal |
