News
- The French Academy of Sciences is collecting input from IAP members on the state of health education among children age 6 to 15. For information, contact:
jacques.frochen@academie.sciences.fr
- A summary of the workshop on the assessment of inquiry-based science education, part of the IAP science education programme, hosted by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 21-23 September, is now available on the IAP website, through link under “programmes”.
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has published a report, “Global Natural Hazards and Disaster Reduction”. The report is based on discussions that took place at an international workshop held in Phuket, Thailand, 29-30 September. For more information, contact: zywang@cashq.ac.cn
- The government of Kenya has officially recognized the Nairobi-based African Academy of Sciences (AAS) as an international organization. The meas-ure is expected to significantly improve AAS's oper-ations and ease the Academy's interactions with other international organizations, including TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, which recently established a regional office at AAS.
- Academies of sciences in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic have launched the Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH). Articles will be published in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak, and abstracted in English. See: http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/