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The SCNAT contributes to international science policy developments and represents the interests of Swiss science globally. She is a member of the International Science Council (ISC), an association with over 140 national and regional science bodies as well as more than 40 international scientific unions. The SCNAT nominates scientists from Switzerland to ISC decision-making bodies and scientific committees of ISC programmes. In addition, she chairs and hosts the secretariat of the European ISC Members since 2016.
Through its disciplinary Platforms Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences as well as Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics, the SCNAT also supports the membership of Swiss National Committees in international scientific unions.
News
Flavia Schlegel has been appointed by the International Science Council (ISC) as its inaugural Special Envoy for Science in Global Policy. Her tasks are to amplify the visibility and voice of the international scientific community within the UN and other global policy fora, such as the G20, by building the Council’s identity and presence at the highest political levels.
Image: ISCThe International Science Council (ISC) creates a single organisation that serves as the global voice for the sciences. The ISC is the result of the merger of International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The founding General Assembly took place on 4 July in Paris.
Image: ISCTo promote Open Data in science, the European Members of the International Council for Science (ICSU) adopted a statement with recommendations for Europe. These concern the FAIR Data Principles, data repositories, data skills, incentives and reward systems, Research Data Management and research culture.
More than 180 national and international science organisations decided on 26 October 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan, to create a global umbrella organisation for the natural and social sciences and the humanities: the International Science Council. This represents the merger of the two organisations International Council for Science (ICSU) and International Social Science Council (ISSC).
Isabelle Gärtner-Roer from the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich has been elected to the Scientific Committee of the World Data System.
On the occasion of the climate negotiations in Paris, a brochure offers insights into the leading role of the International Council for Science in facilitating international research programmes on climate change and providing relevant scientific policy advice.
Guéladio Cissé will represent the Swiss science community in the Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science (CFRS) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) until 2018.
Through Nina Buchmann, the Swiss scientific community will be represented in the Committee on Strategic Planning and Review (CSPR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) for the next three years.
Contact
Dr. Roger Pfister
Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)
House of Academies
PO Box
3001 Bern
Switzerland