From October to December 2021, the winners of INGSA-Asia’s Grassroots Science Advice Promotion Awards 2021 have successfully organized 3 Grassroots Workshops in India and Indonesia, delving into the topics of cultivating livelihood through sustainable farming, disaster planning and management, as well as participatory science advice in policymaking through open science. INGSA-Asia would like to congratulate…
On the 21st of January 2021, INGSA-Asia co-organised a webinar titled “Science Advice and Diplomacy in the Battle against COVID-19” in collaboration with the Young Scientists Forum Nepal, the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, and the Nepal Health Research Council. This webinar, which marked INGSA-Asia’s first initiative in Nepal, was attended by over 100 academicians,…
Covid-19 marked a transition for the FMSTAN network – international travel and face-to-face meetings ceased but the need for science diplomacy and information sharing was more acute than ever. The network moved to virtual meetings to and became an even more active and useful network as members shared ideas, information, and asked advice of their…
The INGSA-Asia Grassroots Science Advice workshop on Nutrition and Health was organised by Department of Biotechnology, MNNIT Allahabad in the seminar hall of School of Management Studies from the 17th to 18th of December 2019. Over the course of two days, the workshop included interesting plenary lectures by seven invited speakers. The workshop also had…
On the 13th of December 2019, a technical session on “Science Advice in Forest Products Industries” was held in conjunction with the UFRO WP 5.07.03 Conference on Green Technology for Pulp, Paper and Allied Industry held at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh. The session was held as one of…
On 14th November 2019, Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE) Centre of Biofuel and Biochemical Research and Governance and Public Policy Research Group, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS hosted a workshop themed ‘Energy Security in Malaysia: The Past, Present, and Way Forward’ at the Centre for Advanced and Professional Education (CAPE) Kuala Lumpur. This workshop was organized in collaboration…
INGSA at the 2019 Ocean Economy & Future Technology Conference – Oman As part of the 2019 Ocean Economy and Future Technology conference on the 11-13th February, INGSA hosted a very successful high-level evidence-to-policy dialogue with almost 60 senior representatives from the Omani government, academia and industry. The workshop was attended by a large number…
The November 2019 meeting of SPIDER/FMSTAN took place in Vienna, in collaboration with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IIASA, The Diplomatische Akademie Wien and the Natural History Museum Vienna. The 2-day meeting brought together almost 80 people from around the world for a joint meeting with the non-inactive SPIDER network, to discuss the pressing issues within Science Diplomacy. Thanks to…
WORKSHOP MATERIALS AND PRESENTATIONS: Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA: The Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and INGSA were pleased to co-host a series of science advice workshops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the 28th to the 31st of October 2019. The workshop series was designed for policymakers and scientists living or working in North Eastern Africa to enhance capacities in embedding evidence…
The workshop themed “Postnormal Science Advice on The Rehabilitation of Manila Bay” was held at the College of Science, University of Philippines, Dilmon Quezon City on the 26th and 27th of September 2019. The workshop was initiated by the Dean of the University of Philippines, Professor Giovanni Tapang. Participants include members of the Philippine Coast Guard (uniformed…
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