Intelligence in Science (ISC), an advisory firm specialising in STEM research and policy management, are leading the second edition of the online UNGA Science Summit, organised around the 2021 UN General Assembly (UNGA76).
The objective of the virtual meeting will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities supporting the SDGs, particularly in science infrastructure and capacity building. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science can improve all policy-making areas and play a more critical role in achieving policy objectives and the benefits to people everywhere, including responses to global challenges.
GODAN and the GODAN Working Group on Food Poverty will be teaming up with ISC to deliver a session on Wednesday 15 September at 10h00 CEST looking at the role of science in acheiving SDG2 of Zero Hunger.
Joining Working Group Members Dr Suchith Anand (GODAN Chief Scientist), Dr Dianna Smith (Lecturer, University of Southampton), Dr Uchechi Anaduaka (Lecturer, University of Nigeria) and Dr Lopamundra Saxena (Research Fellow, CAWR at the University of Coventry); will be GODAN Executive Director Andre Laperriere, Ultan McCarthy from the Waterford institute of Technology, and Prof. Vladislav Popov from the Agricultural University of Plovdiv.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE SESSION AND SPEAKERS HERE
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever, and UNGA76 is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from upcoming innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and multilateral fora, which increasingly determine how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs through thought leadership, evidence, insights, analysis, and innovation.
The Forum will be online from 14-30 September, with sessions ranging from Medicines of the Future to the Role of Women in Science Policy. FIND OUT MORE AND VIEW THE FULL SCHEDULE HERE.
