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The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD) will draw to a close with a ceremony in the new Science Gateway building at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. This ceremony will serve as a capstone to a year filled with insightful discussions, groundbreaking research, and significant advancements in the field of basic sciences. It will be a time to reflect on the achievements made towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to look ahead to future challenges and opportunities in the realm of sustainable development and scientific innovation.

Those wishing to attend in person must register. The ceremony will also be shared live online.

8:30 – Welcoming of participants

9:00 – Introduction 
– Master of ceremony: Anna Cook, CERN

9:05 – Recognizing the Role of Basic Sciences in Achieving Sustainable Development through Enhanced and Equitable Support of Basic Research and Early Career Researchers  
– Prof. , Global Young Academy & Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

9:10 – Keynote talks

– Carthage Smith, OECD, Paris – Challenges for early career scientists (tbc)

– , Stellenbosch University, South Africa – Supporting the next generation of scientists in Africa: Key findings from a multi-country study

Discussion

10:10 – Coffee Break

10:40 – Panel discussion
What can be done so that science is better taken into account in policy making?

– , IUPAC, Academia Joven España, Spain
– , University College London, United Kingdom
– , ICGEB, Trieste, Italy
– , JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mauritius
– Hussam Hussein, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan

Moderator: Cyrus Walther, International Association of Physics Students, Germany

11:40 – Panel discussion
What should be done so that research practices and science are better aligned with the SDGs?

– , Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
– , University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
– , Vanderbilt University, USA
– , CONICET-UNSAM, TWAS-Young Affiliates Network

Moderator: , Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

12:45 – Lunch

14:00 – Welcome addresses

Master of ceremony: Anna Cook, CERN

– , Director General, CERN
– , President of the CERN Council
– , Secretary of State for Science, Technology, and Scientific Innovation, Republic of Honduras (tbc)
– Audrey Azoulay, Director General, UNESCO

14:30 – Panel discussion
Why was this International Year important in different parts of the world?

– , Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
– Shaobo Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
– XXX, Academy of Sciences of South Africa

Moderator: Pavel Kabat, HFSPO

15:20 – Early Career Scientists Statement

, Vanderbilt University, USA

15:30 – Toward the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development

– Lidia Brito, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
, Vice-President, Club of Rome
, Science Director, International Science Council
– Csaba Korosi, President of the 77^th session of the United Nations General Assembly
– Jelena Begović, Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (tbc)

16:00 – Closing remarks

, Chair of the Steering Committee of IYBSSD, President of IUPAP

16:30 – Cocktail – visit of CERN – visit of the Science Gateway