In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sixeenth General Conference of TWAS took place from 21 to 24 November 2022 online.
The General Conference was hosted by Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
The conference theme was basic sciences for evidence-based decision-making and sustainable development in the global South, since the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2022 the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.
Leading to the November General Conference, lectures by the recipients of the 2022 TWAS Awards, the 2022 TWAS-Siwei Cheng Award and the 2021 TWAS Fellows Awards, were offered in a series of webinars that took place monthly from May 2022.