International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP)
Basic Sciences bring new knowledge and a deep understanding of natural phenomena that shape our Universe. The development of basic sciences underlies technological breakthroughs and offers unique opportunities to meet basic human needs, produce economic, social and environment benefits, thus contributing to the global Sustainable Development Goals. In this light, the International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) was established to further develop intergovernmental cooperation for the strengthening of national capacities in the basic sciences and science education.
Objectives
- Building national capacities for basic research, training, science education and popularisation of science through international and regional cooperation in development-oriented areas of national priority;
- Transfer and sharing of scientific information and excellence in science through North-South and South-South cooperation;
- Providing scientific expertise for, and advice to, policy- and decision-makers, and increasing public awareness of ethical issues that progress in science entails.
To attain these objectives, the IBSP seeks to build major region-specific actions in cooperation with partner organizations and networks of national, regional and international centres of excellence or benchmark centres already in existence or to be created in the basic sciences.
IBSP supports projects in mathematics, physics, chemistry and the life sciences, and their interdisciplinary areas, i.e projects that require research in the basic sciences, including when the basic sciences provide a means to solve a problem in another area. For example, research on the mechanisms of cell-cell interaction and its implications for combating disease would be a project within the purview of IBSP.
IBSP: what it is, what it does
Governance and Scientific Board
The Scientific Board of the International Basic Sciences Programme serves to advise the Director-General. It meets at least once a year to supervise the implementation of IBSP, to study proposals concerning developments and modifications of the programme, to assist in the development of national, regional and international projects related to IBSP, to evaluate project proposals received, and to make recommendations on new IBSP projects and IBSP projects being implemented, and for any measures that may be required for the successful implementation and development of the programme.
Members of the IBSP Scientific Board
Bureau of the IBSP Scientific Board
Chair
Dr Merieme Chadid
Astronomer, Explorer, and Astrophysicist
Morocco
Vice-Chair
Prof. Christopher M.A. Brett
President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
Portugal
Members of the IBSP Scientific Board
Group 1: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Dr Phil Mjwara
Director-General, Department of Science and Technology,
South Africa
Dr Mouhamed Moustapha Fall
Professor of Mathematics, President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Senegal Centre,
Senegal
Prof. Shohini Ghose;
Professor of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Canada
Prof. Stanislav Dovgyi
President of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Ukraine
Prof. Dunja Mladeni膰
Head of Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jozef Stefan Institute
Slovenia
Dr Anas bin Faris Al-Faris
Co-Founder and CEO of Intelmatix
Emeritus President of the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST),
Saudi Arabia
Dr Merieme Chadid
Astronomer, Explorer, and Astrophysicist
Morocco
Group 2: Chemical Sciences
Prof. Christian Amatore
Emeritus Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),
France
Prof. Christopher M.A. Brett
President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
Portugal
Dr Nana Ama Browne Klutse
Senior lecturer, University of Ghana and African Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
Ghana
Prof. Ahmed Al-Harrasi
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nizwa,
Oman
Prof. Alexei R. Khokhlov
Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russian Federation
Dr Najat A. Saliba
Executive Director, Khaddit Beirut (The Shake up of Beirut), Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut,
Lebanon
Group 3: Biological Sciences
Dr Fernan Federici
Assistant Professor,
Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile (PUC),
Argentina
Prof. Rosana Pelayo Camacho
Principal Investigator, Oncoimmunology and Cytomics ; Centro de Investigaci贸n Biom茅dica de Oriente, CIBIOR; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS Delegaci贸n Puebla,
Mexico
Prof. Yin Li
Professor,Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
Dr Gonzalo Moratorio
Associate Professor, Universidad De La Rep煤blica,
Uruguay
Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan
Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India,
India
Group 4: science communication
Sandy Ong
Science journalist,
Singapore
Daniel Otunge
Deputy Executive Director, Science Africa,
Kenya