OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) Singapore 18 – 19 March 2013
The OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) will conduct a Workshop on Research Cooperation between Developed and Developing Countries in the Area of Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity in Singapore on March 18-19, 2013. It will be hosted by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. ICSU ROAP will be represented at the Workshop by its Director.
The Workshop will seek to to refine and expand the findings of the OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) “Study of Research Cooperation between Developed and Developing Countries in the Area of Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity” that aimed to explore ways in which both the scientific and development benefits of research cooperation can be optimised. This study is a follow-on to earlier work: the OECD GSF activity ”Opportunities, Challenges and Good Practices in International Research Cooperation between Developed and Developing Countries” that was completed with the publication, in April 2011, of a report that can be found on the GSF website (http://www.oecd.org/sti/scienceandtechnologypolicy/47737209.pdf).
The focus of discussions during the Workshop will be:
1: Examples of international research cooperation between developed and developing Countries
2: Designing Cooperation
3: Creating impacts
All topics have strong relevance to the development of international collaborative research in the new international research programme on global sustainability Future Earth that is being developed by ICSU and its partners.
Key speakers at the Workshop will include:
Dr. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Director, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), the University of Tokyo, and Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University, Japan
Dr. Heinz Gutscher, President, Swiss Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences, Switzerland
Dr. David O’Brien, Senior Program Specialist, Science and Innovation, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
Mr. Osamu Kobayashi, Director, Singapore Office, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan
The Global Science Forum (GSF) provides a venue for consultations among senior science policy officials of OECD member countries. It produces findings and action recommendations on high-priority science policy issues requiring international consultations/co-operation, and identifies opportunities for collaboration on major scientific undertakings. Specifically, the GSF serves its members in the formulation and implementation of their science policies by: 1) exploring opportunities for new or enhanced international co-operation in selected scientific areas; 2) defining international frameworks for vital national or regional science policy decisions; and 3) addressing the scientific dimensions of issues of global concern.
