Sentences with phrase «scientific capacity»

The international community can support each of these efforts through both funding and building scientific capacity, the authors conclude.
It would damage the overall European economy for the same reason, and by the reason of the own industrial and scientific capacity of Catalonia, the most developed region in Spain in many indicators.
SAYAS aims to contribute towards solutions to national and global challenges facing society; provide a platform for young scientists to influence policy decisions; contribute towards the development of scientific capacity in South Africa through mentoring and role - modelling of future scientists; and foster opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations amongst young scientists.
Lessons learned from program clients closer to home have proved useful in international scientific capacity building as well, Milutinovich noted.
But as devastating as such events can be, these recent great quakes have come with a silver lining: They coincide with unprecedented advances in technological and scientific capacity for learning from them.
provide technical support and training to help with breeding and development and build scientific capacity at the national level,
Building national scientific capacity through everything from streamlined grant - making to infrastructure and workforce development, is a significant goal for many countries in the Middle East and North Africa, according to an independent report released this month by CSTSP.
Richmond has worked to improve scientific capacity and collaborations in Africa, South America, and most recently Southeast Asia as a U.S. Science Envoy to the region.
«While one may think of science diplomacy as the domain of rich countries with advanced scientific capacities,» Holt said, «in fact, the intersection of science and diplomacy may be even more important in developing regions.
The real danger is that this trend is self - reinforcing and that the gap in scientific capacity between developed and less developed nations will widen.
In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, three former EPA officials write that «research funding and scientific capacity related to the environment should be enhanced, not reduced, to enable us to grapple with ongoing and emerging problems».
In selecting sites for potential field testing and environmental releases, the committee recommended that preference be given to locations in countries with existing scientific capacity and governance frameworks to conduct and oversee the safe investigation of gene drives and the development of gene - drive modified organisms.
The AAS supports such community involvement in the hard decisions imposed on us by the current trend of diminishing federal investment in the nation's future scientific capacity, a trend we regard as unwise.
To increase opportunities for research, education and training that strengthen scientific capacities in developing countries to understand, communicate and motivate action on critical global environmental change challenges.
These actions have helped the U.S. foreign policy community both to build much stronger links to the U.S. scientific community and to increase its internal scientific capacity to deal effectively with the many technical issues that arise in contemporary U.S. foreign policy.
«The rate of change is challenging the current scientific capacity to monitor and predict what is becoming a journey into uncharted territory.»
The project had three objectives: enhance scientific capacity in developing countries to assess climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation; advance scientific understanding of these issues; and improve links between climate change science and policy communities to enable adaptation planning and action.
She joined the Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) in 2009 with 14 years of experience managing international scientific capacity building initiatives.
By sequencing and analysing the largest genome in the world so far, we have shown that SciLifeLab has both technical and scientific capacity for research at the highest international level,» concludes Joakim Lundeberg.
In addition, SIGMA II will continue to work on building scientific capacity in the US and Mexico.
A greater understanding of the scientific capacity of North Korea will enable South Korea and the international community to devise plans for exchanges.
The plan emphasizes the need to share knowledge and scientific capacity, and establishes a new type of conservation partnership.
As this facility and other research bases have increased their scientific capacity in recent decades, the scientists who come to remote areas have evolved to include not just hardened outdoorsy veterans «with big, bushy beards,» Cox says, but also mathematicians, software engineers, and statisticians.
«Is this another assault on the scientific capacity of the nation to address emerging environmental problems, or is this truly a step forward in organization and accountability and independence of science?»
Indicators of research activity bear witness to an explosion of scientific capacity and a strong trend toward international collaboration.
This program allows each eligible state the flexibility to capitalize on its individual strengths, resources, and circumstances to build its scientific capacity.
The investments by Genome Canada should greatly increase Canada's scientific capacity, says Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, which has recently announced a $ 32 million competition to work on the haplotype map.
Some NGO employees, for example, work to expand the scientific capacity of less well - off regions.
He said the researchers hope to expand scientific curricula at all levels of education, helping train the Malagasy scientists of the future and build scientific capacity in the country, all the while creating an appreciation among the local population of the need to understand and preserve lemurs and other species for the future.
Developing new approaches to building scientific capacity and leadership in Kenya and the region by attracting the brightest graduates as masters and PhD students and providing the infrastructure for them to develop their careers as researchers.
Having worked in hematologist malignancy research for over a decade (albeit not in a scientific capacity), I was disappointed with the medical storyline.
The scientific capacity to explore the human influences on the tragic 2009 Black Saturday bushfires is imminent.
Impact: The global climate observing system will be expanded, providing regional fluxes of climatically important data, while building scientific capacity.
In other to achieve its goals, the Golden Alliance Group of Companies upholds a mission to ensure income growth for all participants in investment projects through effective use of raw material, material and intellectual assets of the company, as well as technical, economic and scientific capacities in compliance with best standards of corporate management.
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