AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy 2026 – YOA

Deadline: January 29, 2026

Applications are open for the AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy 2026. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are in search of candidates to take part within the annual summer season 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: contributors 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 up to date worldwide coverage points referring to science, expertise, atmosphere and well being, and construct a skillset to permit for careers on the intersection of science and diplomacy. Over the previous years, TWAS has educated over 300 rising leaders from greater than 50 international locations to handle science diplomacy from international and regional views. The course receives key funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Golden Family Foundation.

Costs

• Organizers will cowl the bills of pairs chosen, together with transportation, lodging, visa processing charges, meals and incidentals.
• Additionally, there might be alternatives for a small variety of self-supported participant pairs (together with from excessive-revenue international locations) to attend the course if chosen. Those contributors might be accountable for paying their prices in connection to their attendance to the course, aside from meals and transportation inside Trieste, which is obtainable by organizers.

Eligibility

To strengthen the connection between scientists and governmental officers, decisionmakers and diplomats, purposes to attend the course are being invited from ‘participant pairs’.

The ‘participant pair’ will embody:

• Participant 1: a Early-Career Scientist (ECS) who ought to be ideally 40 years or under, should have earned a PhD diploma and whose analysis and wider engagement has worldwide policymaking implications or purposes, and
• Participant 2: a Decisionmaker (DM) from the policymaking enviornment, working on science, expertise, and innovation-associated issues. There is not any age restrict for the co-applicant decisionmaker nor the requirement of a PhD diploma. On the opposite hand, this particular person ought to belong to one of many following coverage-associated classes:
  • An area or nationwide authorities official;
  • A policymaker;
  • A diplomat;
  • Civil servant;
  • A consultant of a analysis funding establishment;
  • Staff or skilled working for a world (e.g. UN) group.

Eligible Countries

The name is open to all international locations, nevertheless as a consequence of restricted slots out there, precedence might be given to the next international locations that haven’t had illustration within the course over the previous 5 years. Financial assist from the organizers is proscribed to profitable candidates from this checklist of nations:

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.

Application

The deadline for submitting purposes is 29 January (at midnight, CET time zone).

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