The 3rd World Science and Technology Development Forum (WSTDF2021), themed on “Openness, trust and cooperation”, was successfully held both on site in Beijing and online, from 6 to 7 November 2021.
The forum was sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and supported by WFEO, UNESCO and the International Science Council (ISC). 205 guests from 19 countries and regions, including 7 Nobel laureates, attended the forum to share their views around the theme.
Gong Ke (President of WFEO), together with Wan Gang (President of CAST), Liu Zhenmin (the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations), Hou Jianguo (President of CAS), Li Xiaohong (President of CAE), Shabhaz Khan (Director of the UNESCO Office in Beijing), and Peter Gluckman (President of ISC), addressed at the open ceremony.
Gao Fu (Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention), Bernard Bigot (Director-General of the ITER Organization), Andre Geim (Co-recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics), Jonathan Gruber (Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Author of Jump-Starting America), Shu Yinbiao (President of International Electrotechnical Commission), Jakob Edler (Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research) and Zhou Qi (Vice President of CAS) made keynote speeches around the four main topics:
World Digital Economy Forum, Open Science and Open Source for Innovation and Development Forum, Innovation, Cooperation and Development among SMEs Forum, Forum on Women in Science and Young Elite Scientists Summit were also held during WSTDF2021.
(From http://www.wfeo.org/report-on-the-3rd-world-science-and-technology-development-forum/)
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