In the second of the SWAC/OECD Secretariat’s West African Papers series (“Climate Impacts in the Sahel and West Africa: The Role of Climate Science in Policy Making”), Carlo Buontempo and Kirsty Lewis of the Met Office UK consider the role climate science plays in policy making. More...
The construction industry employs approximately 7% of the global work force and it is predicted to account for approximately 13% of GDP by 2020. The sector is a major positive force for development. More...
As an American, it’s nearly impossible to go through summer without hearing the chatter or joining in on the festivities around “Shark Week.” In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s an annual week-long television series produced by the Discovery Channel that features all sorts of action-packed shark videos. More...
Central America has an important opportunity over the next few years to build inclusive and sustainable development through deepening regional economic integration, both to further the development of its internal market at sufficient scale, and to present the region as more attractive for investment. More...
Africa itself won’t pass that landmark until sometime in the 2030s, but when you look at the numbers rather than the percentages, you can see why this year’s African Economic Outlook from the OECD Development Centre, African Development Bank, and UNDP is focusing on “Sustainable Cities and Structural Transformation”. More...
International investment, and in particular foreign direct investment, has an important role to play in helping to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It can be a powerful international mechanism for mobilising the tangible and intangible assets (such as capital, technology, skills, access to markets) that are essential for sustainable growth and development. More...
Discussions centred on Open Science topics, such as data and tools re-use, reviewing and appropriately crediting multidisciplinary research, and careers. Various research communities were represented, including funders, researchers, publishers, university organisations and proposal evaluators, who all came together to discuss the realities of the changing scientific research environment and to make recommendations on what might be done to adapt research-career evaluation systems and to support multidisciplinary research. More...
This year’s theme, "Engineering Education on Top of the World: Industry University Cooperation," is aligned with the hosting city, its strong industrial past, its present start-up environment and its future as a flagship in new technologies. More...
The Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) will hold its annual conference in Budapest, Hungary from 20 to 22 November 2016. Under the title “UniverCities. Higher education institutions and their habitat,” the conference will focus on the relationship between universities and colleges and the cities in which they are located. More...
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