OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) Singapore 18 – 19 March 2013
Participants listening to a presentation during the workshop
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.
The Forum conducted 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 was hosted by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. ICSU ROAP was represented at the Workshop by its Director.
The Workshop sought 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 conservation that was undertaken 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 entitled 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). This workshop aimed to go further to document good examples of international research cooperation between developed and developing countries countries, to understand how best to design such cooperation and discuss how to create impacts from collaborative projects.Key speakers at the Workshop included the following experts::
- 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
- Ms Dewi G.C. KIRONO, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Climate Adaptation Flagship, and
- Gerhard SCHMITT, Senior Vice-President, ETH Global
