SDG5 – Página 2 – International Year of Basic Sciences for Development

Sciences fondamentales et développement soutenable : que faudrait-il changer dans nos recherches ?

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 17/03/2023 Leave a comment

La journée interroge la situation des sciences fondamentales dans le contexte du développement soutenable : fertilisations croisées, nouvelle dimension de l’éthique, soutenabilité des actions de recherche. Articulation entre savoirs fondamentaux et soutenabilité, éthique scientifique à l’heure de la crise écologique, pratiques de la recherche seront discutés sous forme d’interventions et de tables rondes de scientifiques…

30th Edition of Pan African Mathematics Olympiads

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 03/03/2023 Leave a comment

Mathematics is bot the basis of any educational program and at the forefront of major scientific and technological development. Elsewhere in the world, the most successful companies – Google and Facebook, for example – recruit top maths graduates straight out of university to write the complex codes that define our experience of the digital world.…

Annual Conference of the African Astronomical Society

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 15/02/2023 Leave a comment

The AfAS annual conference focuses on the science, outreach, communication, and education activities emanating from Astronomy in Africa. It seeks to enhance further collaborations among countries in Africa and the rest of the world. It also focuses on the status of astronomy infrastructure, the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Cape Town in 2024 (IAU-GA2024),…

World Space Week – Angola celebration

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 15/02/2023 Leave a comment

This training workshop will be presented to school learners, facilitators and university students. It will cover 3D Design in drone building and drone racing. What is World Space Week? World Space Week is an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. The United Nations General Assembly…

Astronomy for development projects onboarding

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 15/02/2023 Leave a comment

The Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) will support 19 projects around the world in 2023, funded by the International Astronomical Union, for a total of €124,011. These projects will address various socio-economic and sustainable-development challenges using astronomy and basic sciences based interventions. The OAD is organizing an onboarding session for the project teams to…

Networking in Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 14/02/2023 Leave a comment

<p>The initiate is to form a network from different discipline in basic science. Networking or collaborations among different groups are necessary for the development of sciences.</p> <p>Our plan is to invite researchers from different field such as chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacy, botany, microbiology, engineering, medicine and public health expert. Experts will be invited for their potential…

Collaborative measurement of the geomagnetic field

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 07/02/2023 Leave a comment

This is a collaborative project which aims at obtaining the map of the Earth’s magnetic field. It started in Taipei, China, where they have already been measuring since July 2022. In Argentina and, hopefully, other South American countries, the measurements will begin in March-April 2023. The proposal consists of inviting high school students and professors…

Coloquio. Mujer científica: experiencias, retos y logros

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 06/02/2023 Leave a comment

Panel para abordar la experiencia de la mujer en ciencia desde la perspectiva de dos investigadoras de alto nivel.

Astronomy for development projects presentations

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 03/02/2023 Leave a comment

Every year, the Office of Astronomy for Development, through the International Astronomical Union, provides grants and supports projects around the world that apply astronomy in the pursuit of sustainable development. In 2022, the OAD funded 17 projects for a total of €109,822. These projects were run by multidisciplinary teams and addressed local and global challenges…

UNESCO Bootcamp for Nanotechnology Entrepreneurs

By luc.allemand@afriscitech.com 25/01/2023 Leave a comment

Despite enormous potential that nanotechnology can hold for developing Africa, the continent is slow in implementing it. Reports say that the African continent has the basic infrastructure but lacks focus and consolidation of efforts. This proposed bootcamp aims at consolidating efforts to raise the awareness of nanotechnology and its potential industrial applications by offering training…

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