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Welcome to the Science Summit at UNGA76, a major contribution to advancing Science for the UN SDGs. Online from 14- September - 5 October 2021.
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA76) in September 2021. The objective of the virtual meeting will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities in support of the SDGs, particularly in science infrastructure and capacity building. Science is and will enable sustainable economic, environmental, and societal development. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science is impacting all areas of policy-making and is playing a more critical role in how policy objectives are achieved and the consequent benefit to people everywhere, including responses to global challenges.
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever: UNGA76 is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and the multilateral fora, which increasingly determine how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs through thought leadership, evidence, insights, analysis, and innovation.

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Domingos Barbosa

Instituto de Telecomunicações
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Aveiro Area, Portugal
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Domingos Barbosa, PhD in Astrophysics & Space Techniques (U. Paris VII), Marie Curie Fellow (1998-2000) :Senior Researcher at Radioastronomy Group, Basic Sciences & Enabling Technologies, Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Portugal. Coordinates the ENGAGE SKA Research Infrastructure (RI) of the Portuguese Roadmap on RIs of Strategic Relevance. Member of BIOSTIRLING project (FP7) and AENEAS (H2020). He was a Member of the SKA SSEC in 2010-2011. He is member of the Portuguese Space Surveillance & Tracking (SST) Group led by the Portuguese MoD for the Eu SST program. DB is a membre of Development of PALOP Knowledge in Radio Astronomy, a partnership between Portuguese and Mozambican institutions funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science & Terechlogy (FCT) and Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) to foster ongoing collaborations in particular, those dealing with Radioastronomy, Earth Observations, matching similar African-Europe capacity building projects targeting Anglophone countries in the region (like DARA). DOPPLER includes initiatives to further those ongoing endeavours, with advanced training on areas such as biodiversity, food security, and resource management. Of most importance, DOPPLER will foster science, industry and government linkages through training and knowledge transfer
Tuesday, September 28
 

4:00pm CEST

(REF SY28) A Systems approach to Innovation for Agrifood and Life SciencesBernd Halling • Marleen Temmerman • Mahama Ouedraogo • Karina Angelieva • Intisar Soghayroun • Philippe Petithuguenin • Paul Ruebig • Daan du Toit
 
Monday, October 4
 

2:00pm CEST

(REF AR04) AERAP Session - Africa -Europe and Global Science Cooperation - Capacity and PrioritiesDomingos Barbosa • Takalani Nemaungani • Bonita de Swardt • Rahel Belete • Anna Nguno