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Kuwait City, Kuwait

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Workshop Two: Kuwait, 13-17 March 2011

Collaborator: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

Sessions were designed to promote interactive discussions about the current state of international collaboration in the biological sciences in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Africa (BMENA). This workshop builds on a previous workshop held in Amman in October 2010, and further explores the challenges identified there. These challenges include responsible research conduct and identification of national needs for the biological sciences and development of scientific capacity to address societal priority needs.



About the organizers

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org). The Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy (CSTSP) of the AAAS supports the use of sound science to inform current security policy debates.

Since our establishment in 2005, we have mainly focused on bringing scientific experts to contribute to policy discussions on primarily nuclear, biological, and cyber security issues in Washington, DC, USA. Recently, CSTSP has begun to reach out to the American academic community and international scientific community to provide substantive input on relevant policy issues. AAAS works with non-governmental experts to provide accurate and timely information to policy-makers. Therefore AAAS is able to provide unique opportunities to engage and be trusted by many stakeholders in many sectors globally.

The International Engagement Meeting Series is our first activity in the BMENA region.

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

Mission:
Promoting scientific and applied research, particularly in matters related to industry, natural and food resources and other primary constituents of national economy, in an endeavor to serve the goals of economic, technological and scientific development, and to advise the government on scientific matters and on scientific policy issues.
The main objectives of the institute as declared in the Amiri Decree are to:

  • Conduct scientific research and studies concerned with the progress of national industry and which facilitate the preservation of the environment;
  • Encourage Kuwait to practice scientific research and nourish the spirit of research in the younger generation;
  • Explore and study natural resources and means for exploiting them, energy and water resources, and methods to improve agriculture and develop aquatic resources;
  • Render scientific, technological and research consultation services to the government and to national establishment;
  • Follow up the development of scientific and technological progress, and adapt it in ways that conform with the local environment;
  • Establish and foster relations, and carry out mutual research with higher education institutes, and the technological and scientific sectors in Kuwait and various parts of the world; and
  • Participate in the study of ways to verify the resources of the national economy by investing the results, of scientific and technological research in industry and directing it in the services of the State's economic and social development goals.


    • Contact Us

    Gwen Coat, M.Sc.
    Program Associate
    AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
    Phone: (001)-202-326-6779
    Fax: (001) 202-289-1846
    gcoat@aaas.org

    Hayfaa Almudhaf
    Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
    Kuwait City, Kuwait
    Phone: (011)-965-2498-9400
    hmudhaf@hotmail.com

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    Image US Department of State, Biosecurity Engagement Program

    Image Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science

    Image Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research