ISC and its partners will organise the 8th edition of the Science Summit around the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77) on 13-30 September 2022.The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central theme of the Summit. The objective is to develop and launch science collaborations to demonstrate global science mechanisms and activities to support the attainment of the UN SDGs, Agenda 2030 and Local2030. The meeting will also prepare input for the United Nations
Summit of the Future, which will take place during UNGA78 beginning on 12 September 2023.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has elected, by acclamation, Csaba Kőrösi, Director of Environmental Sustainability at the Office of the President of Hungary, to serve as President of its 77th session. In his acceptance speech, Kőrösi said his presidency’s efforts will be guided by the motto, ‘
Solutions through Solidarity, Sustainability and Science.’ He will succeed Abdulla Shahid of Maldives, current UNGA President, assuming the presidency on 13 September 2022
The Summit will examine what enabling policy, regulatory and financial environments are needed to implement and sustain the science mechanisms required to support genuinely global scientific collaborations across continents, nations and themes. Scientific discovery through the analysis of massive data sets is at hand. This data-enabled approach to science, research and development will be necessary if the SDGs are to be achieved.
SSUNGA77 builds on the successful
Science Summit at UNGA76, which brought together over 460 speakers from all continents in more than 80 sessions.
SSUNGA77 will bring together thought leaders, scientists, technologists, innovators, policymakers, decision-makers, regulators, financiers, philanthropists, journalists and editors, and community leaders to increase health science and citizen collaborations across a broad spectrum of themes ICT, nutrition, agriculture and the environment.
- Declan Kirrane SSUNGA77
- Intisar Soghayroun University of Khartoum, Sudan
- Per Espen Stoknes Earth4All/Club of Rome,
- Mei Lin Fung People-centred Internet, USA
- Julie Makani Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania
- Martina Desole European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), Belgium
- Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary COMSTECH, Pakistan
- Marleen Temmerman Aga Khan University, Kenya
- George Essegbey Council for scientific and industrial research, Ghana
- Moyo, Yolanda Illumina, South Africa
- Anna Stewart Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Uruguay
- Encieh Erfani Global Young Academy
- Rahma Sophia Rachdi United States Press Agency
- Fadeke Ayoola NET Africa & AgriFund Management Center, Brussels
- Adelke Olorunnimbe Mamora Minister of Science, Nigeria
- Yousef Torman Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) Jordan
- Sampson Adotey African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Ghana
- Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad Zhejiang University, China
- Frank Mugyenyi Minerals African Development Institution (MADI), Uganda
- Juan Miguel González-Aranda LifeWatch Eric, Spain
- Dasapta Erwin Irawan Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
- Solomon Benor Ethiopian Ministry of Education
- Shaikha Al-Sanad, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
- Oyun Ravsal JEMR LLC Mongolia
- Ramin Sedehi Impact Human Learning, USA
- Kandesh Yumkella Co-chair of the Africa-Europe Foundation Strategy Group