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News & Events
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29-Sep-2006
The goal of this one-day workshop was to strengthen the links between real-life, high-level science policy decisions and quantitative/analytical as well as qualitative models of the social and economic impacts of research and development (R&D) investments.
Held in Helsinki on 12 July 2006, the workshop was attended by 22 OECD member countries, the European Commission, and Russia and South Africa.
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20-Jul-2006
The OECD Global Science Forum held the Workshop on Science and Technology for a Safer Society in Tokyo, Japan, on 5-6 December, 2005, to examine the relevance of the Bird's Eye View (BEV) and other holistic approaches that aim to effectively utilize available knowledge from multiple relevant fields for understanding and resolving complex societal problems and threats. Click here for the report .
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09-May-2006
Are student enrolments in Science and Technology studies really going down? What are the factors that affect students’ choices? What are the mechanisms that can be implemented to influence such choices? This is a concise policy-level report, featuring findings and recommendations for the different stakeholders in S&T education (governments, scientific education community, business community…) and describing the main quantitative and qualitative aspects of this problem.
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02-Mar-2006
During the next two decades, powerful computing Grids are likely to have an impact that is comparable to the familiar World Wide Web. Currently, Grids are being developed chiefly to support basic research. The OECD Global Science Forum has issued a concise policy-level report, featuring findings and recommendations for governments and the scientific community, and describing prospects for the future.
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Events
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from 11-Jun-2007 to 13-Jun-2007
Although the value and importance of large scientific research collection facilities are increasingly recognised, they face common problems linked to their historical structure, increasing demand for access, and needs for changes to their operation. The Global Science Forum held a workshop in Leiden (The Netherlands) in June 2007 to address current political, organisational, technological and financial issues and bottlenecks faced by these scientific collections, and their international implications.
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from 17-May-2006 to 18-May-2006
The OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) Conference on Scientific Challenges for Energy Research was held on 17-18 May 2006 at the French Ministry of Research in Paris. The conference addressed the scientific and technological challenges of a sustainable, mid-21st century energy system.
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from 14-Nov-2005 to 15-Nov-2005
"Declining Student Enrolment in Science & Technology: Reality, causes and possible solutions to the problem of the decline of interest for science and technology studies among young people" were the topics of the international conference organised by the OECD Global Science Forum and the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science on November 14-15, in Amsterdam.
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