Since 2011, the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has funded over 200 projects that use astronomy as a tool to address challenges in communities and achieve SDGs. OAD’s Dana Ficut-Vicas and Maria Alejandra Diaz write on the changes these projects are creating in their communities.
A series of workshops recently attracted participants from 25 countries to identify how research can create more equitable health outcomes, while facilitating future health emergency preparedness.
Despite progress on gender representation in science and research, disparities still exist. Women author fewer of the papers that are published in journals than men, according to the findings by the scientific publisher Elsevier.
Since 2011, the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has funded over 200 projects that use astronomy as a tool to address challenges in communities and achieve SDGs. OAD’s Dana Ficut-Vicas and Maria Alejandra Diaz write on the changes these projects are creating in their communities.
Since 2011, the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has funded over 200 projects that use astronomy as a tool to address challenges in communities and achieve SDGs. OAD’s Dana Ficut-Vicas and Maria Alejandra Diaz write on the changes these projects are creating in their communities.
Parliamentarians in Djibouti have been showcasing their work to promote and protect human rights through a new campaign launched by the President of the country’s National Assembly and targeted at their citizens.
The world is losing the battle against AIDS due to ongoing discrimination around preventative medicines, testing and treatments, an international conference has been warned.
Materials are the key components behind technological development for meeting sustainable goals such as clean and green energy, clean air and water, good health, infrastructures, etc. It is thus important to understand the fundamentals behind material chemistry and physics, as well as understand the engineering challenges of their scalability and integration into products. This conference…
The European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS) Annual Conference 2022 is themed: “Gender, intersectionality and inclusion in the EU research context”. It will hold virtually on the 22nd of November 2022.
The passage through the research career to the management position of a research group is an arduous process for which there is no adequate training. In our country, there is no specific program to cover this need and the lack of training generates problems and affects the effectiveness of research personnel throughout their professional career.…
