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- TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, offers fellowships in the natural sciences for postgraduate, postdoctoral, advanced research and visiting scholars. The fellowships are offered to scientists from developing countries and are tenable in Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico and Pakistan. Women scientists are especially encouraged to apply. This year a number of new programmes are being launched, including: fellowships with CONACYT (Mexico) for both postgraduate and postdoctoral studies, visiting scholars fellowships tenable at USM (Malaysia) and postdoctoral fellowships tenable at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (India). Please visit www.twas.org under 'Programmes' 'Exchange', for more information, or contact fellowships@twas.org.
- ISSC (International Social Science Council) organized the first ever World Social Science Forum (WSSF) in Bergen, Norway, from May 10-12, 2009.The overall theme of the Forum was “One Planet – Worlds Apart?” The event featured Plenary Sessions with eminent speakers, including a keynote by Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen on “Challenges for the Social Sciences in the 21st Century”. Other plenary speakers include Saskia Sassen on “The Development of Development Theory, Jon Elster on “One Social Science – or Many?, as well as the Foreign Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, on "Knowing Better - and Doing Worse? What Social Science can Provide for Policy Makers”.
The Full programme and links to the report are at: http://www.rokkan.uib.no/wssf/
- Palestine Academy of Sciences co-organized the 2nd international conference on Water. The conference on "Water: values and rights", took place in Jericho, from 13-15 April 2009 and was organized by the Palestine Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Palestine Water Authority. For further information, see: http://www.waterrightsconference.org, or contact Dr. Imad Khatib, ikhatib@palestineacademy.org