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Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development – 24-hour online event

Join scientists for a 24-hour online event around the globe 5 June – 5:00 GMT / 6 June – 5:00 GMT How are scientists paving the way to the collective progress towards sustainable development? How could they do better, and more? International scientific unions, research organizations, science academies, learned societies, and scientific networks involved in […]

UN General Assembly Proclaims International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development in 2022

IYBSSD 2022

The International Astronomical Union is one of several scientific unions and institutions who will coordinate the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD) in 2022, to promote the links between the basic sciences and the Sustainable Development Goals. We need more basic sciences to achieve Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. […]