The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-TWAS 2026 Course on Science Diplomacy (Funded) – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: 29 January 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-TWAS course. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are searching for candidates to take part in the annual summer time course on science diplomacy to be held on 20-23 July 2026 in particular person in Trieste, Italy.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are searching for candidates to take part in the annual summer time course on science diplomacy to be held on 20-23 July 2026 in particular person in Trieste, Italy.

The workshop will happen as follows:

• 20 July (Monday): welcome dinner
• 21-23 July (Tuesday – Thursday): workshop
• 24 July: members return to their home international locations

The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy coaching program was established in 2014 to show scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and different stakeholders and establishments to science diplomacy ideas, discover key modern worldwide coverage points regarding science, expertise, atmosphere and well being, and construct a skillset to permit for careers at the intersection of science and diplomacy. 

Requirements

The name is open to all international locations, nevertheless as a result of restricted slots accessible, precedence will probably be given to the following international locations that haven’t had illustration in the course over the previous 5 years. Financial help from the organizers is proscribed to profitable candidates from this checklist of international locations:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Central African Rep.,  Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo Rep., Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Congo DRC, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,  Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Rep., Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia,  Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Qatar, Türkiye (Turkey), Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, State of Palestine, Suriname, Syrian Arab Rep., Taiwan (China), Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, and Zambia.

The ‘participant pair’ will embody:

1. Participant 1: a Early-Career Scientist (ECS) who needs to be ideally 40 years or beneath, should have earned a PhD diploma and whose analysis and wider engagement has worldwide policymaking implications or purposes, and
2. Participant 2: a Decisionmaker (DM) from the policymaking area, working on science, expertise, and innovation-related issues. There isn’t any age restrict for the co-applicant decisionmaker nor the requirement of a PhD diploma. On the different hand, this particular person ought to belong to 1 of the following policy-related classes:- An area or nationwide authorities official;
   – A policymaker;
   – A diplomat;
   – Civil servant;
   – A consultant of a analysis funding establishment;
   – Staff or professional working for a global (e.g. UN) group.

Benefits

• Organizers will cowl the bills of pairs chosen, together with transportation, lodging, visa processing charges, meals and incidentals.
• Additionally, there will probably be Opportunities for a small quantity of self-supported participant pairs (together with from high-income international locations) to attend the course if chosen. Those members will probably be accountable for paying their prices in connection to their attendance to the course, besides for meals and transportation inside Trieste, which is obtainable by organizers.

Contact electronic mail: [email protected]

For More Information:

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