A workshop held in Dakar, Senegal, on 27 June - under the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative - gave African scientists an opportunity to learn about the issues and join the discussion
TWAS and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft have signed an agreement that will provide up to 30 'cooperation visits' by postdoctoral scientists from sub-Saharan Africa each year.
Both TWAS and OWSD - the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World - have signed agreements with the Universiti Putra Malaysia by which UPM will host a number of fellowships each year
Capacity development for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation will be the theme of the fourth regional workshop of the CATALYST Project.
TWAS is now accepting applications for projects in the basic sciences from individual young scientists and leaders of research units based in scientifically lagging countries.
South African Minister of Science and Technology Derek Hanekom addressed Academy members during the ministerial session of the 24th TWAS General Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
TWAS's 22nd General Meeting was held in Trieste, Italy, at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), between 21 and 23 November 2011. The TWAS Committees and Council Meeting