WSF - Budapest 2009: Knowledge and Future
To be set up for the fourth time in Budapest by HAS, UNESCO, and ICSU, World Science Forum will explore the future, world-wide reverberations of the science enterprise from 5 through 7 November, 2009.
Taking part in the discussions to be held at HAS' Budapest headquarters and, on 7 November, in the Upper House of Hungarian Parliament, will be internationally renowned scientists, heads of state, CEOs of organisations funding research as well as editors-in-chief of such leading science journals as Science and Nature.
You can browse the profiles of invited contributors if you click here. For summaries of previous WSF events in 2003, 2005, and 2007, please, click here.
One of the novelties that WSF - 2009 offers is a special plenary session devoted to science communication to be attended by Msrs. Bruce Alberts and Philip Campbell, editors-in-chief of Science and Nature respectively.
Another novelty is the theme, suggested by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, devoted to foresight in science and technology. The other six thematic sessions will investigate research funding amid a global economic downturn, career options for women researchers and/or young scientists, the roles national Parliaments, and indeed science diplomacy, can play in forming regional and global science policies, etc.
Among the many dignitaries expected to attend are, needless to say, the Presidents of the two co-organising agencies, i.e. Matsuura Koichiro of UNESCO and Catherine Bréchignac of ICSU.
For more information, please go to the official web site of the World Science Forum - Budapest at www.sciforum.hu