The FMSTAN meeting at the #INGSA2018 conference in Tokyo was a more informal affair, bringing together FMSTAN members with relevant stakeholders to discuss the future direction and focus of science diplomacy and continued to outline the work programme for the network.

The meeting was embedded in what was a highly successful conference for INGSA, a conference that attracted a truly global attendance and that further raised the awareness of science diplomacy as a discipline of growing importance.