Italy: Trieste became a Third Centre of WAAS

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It is appropriate that the place where Abdus Salam forged links between science and the UN was the first occasion in which the General Assembly was greeted by the President of the UNESCO General Assembly and by the representative of the UN Office in Geneva – signalling institutional cooperation between WAAS and UN organizations.

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Source/Credit: World Academy of Art and Science
By Ivo Šlaus | April 1, 2013

More than 50 years ago, Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate and Fellow of WAAS, initiated the process of making Trieste an international centre of excellence. WAAS organised an international conference on the “Impact of Science and Technology on Society and Economy,” which was held at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) at Trieste on March 4-7, 2013. The Forum was co-organized by The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), The Trieste International Foundation for the Progress and Freedom of Sciences, The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), The Risk Institute and The Mother’s Service Society. 31 Fellows actively participated in the Academy’s General Assembly held on March 5, 2013.

WAAS inaugurated its new centre in Trieste at the time of the conference — the initiative of Orio Giarini and the outstanding endeavour of Domenico Romeo, Enrico Tongiorgi, Andrea Vacchi and Mauro Giacca — in collaboration with institutions in Trieste: TWAS, ICTP, IAP (The Inter Academy Panel), IAMP (The Inter Academy Medical Panel) and ICGEB. The Trieste WAAS centre will create a remarkable impact for WAAS through cooperation between TWAS and WAAS, membership in and collaboration of WAAS with the Inter Academy Panel and Inter Academy Medical Panel, and through all institutions created in Trieste by Abdus Salam.

The Trieste Forum did much more. It highlighted the constant and remarkable activities and projects WAAS has initiated in the last two years, the consilience and integration of several of these projects, e.g. Anthropocene, New Economic Theory and Individuality in an encompassing program on Human Capital. It proved an active and constantly increasing Fellowship of the Academy. Fellows are the true wealth of the Academy and they constantly demonstrate that through nominating new Fellows, participating in the Academy’s conferences (about half of over 70 participants at the Trieste Forum were Fellows of WAAS), by initiating and participating in projects, by participating in Plenums (the third Plenum in less than two years was held during the Trieste Forum). It is appropriate that the place where Abdus Salam forged links between science and the UN was the first occasion in which the General Assembly was greeted by the President of the UNESCO General Assembly and by the representative of the UN Office in Geneva – signalling institutional cooperation between WAAS and UN organizations.

Ivo Šlaus
President

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