Impact of research in science education. Addressing the need for a knowledge-based society

This expert seminar was organized by Estonian Academy of Sciences and University of Tartu, supported by Horizon 2020 Twinning project “Addressing Attractiveness of Science Career Awareness” (SciCar). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952470. SciCar – a science education project – addresses…

Embedding Ethics in Machine Learning

From helping farmers adapt to climate change to predicting disease outbreaks, scientists in developing countries have begun turning to Machine Learning (ML) for more effective solutions. With this potential, however, comes the possibility for abuse, misuse, and unintended consequences. By presenting case studies from various parts of the world we will discuss the need for…

International Forum for Basic Sciences in Climate Changes and Sustainable Development

Forum and Scientific sessions about climate changes, mathematics, physics, and chemistry in climate sciences, their impact on human society and sustainability. It involves sessions about mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc in the climate sciences. It is about climate and environmental evolution, their impacts on the human society and sustainable development.

A honey inspired event

Two talks will be presented: HONEY AND MORE: SCAMS, COUNTING & HEXAGONS BY PROF CHRISTIAN PIRK SOCIAL INSECTS RESEARCH GROUP, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA ——————————————— ANALYSIS AND HUMAN DIETRAY INTAKES OF NEONICOTINOIDS IN HONEY BY DR OVOKEROYE ABAFE MARIE CURIE SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT, SCHOOL…

CSIR Career Day

<p>A CSIR Career Day, which will take place on 3 August 2022 at the CSIR ICC, comprising a series of presentations, motivational talks, exhibitions and science demonstrations designed to encourage grade 9 to 11 learners to pursue careers in STEMI.</p> <p>The CSIR CEO will formally welcome all the learners, this will be followed by career…

NITheCS colloquium: The dawn of exascale computing in the climate sciences

NITheCS colloquium, presented by Prof Francois Engelbrecht (Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand) View Invitation Dynamic climate models have become the main tools to generate detailed projections of future climate change, either globally when applied as global climate models (GCMs), or regionally when applied over limited areas of interest as regional climate models (RCMs).…