{"id":3139,"date":"2025-12-19T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:57:36","slug":"aaas-twas-course-on-science-diplomacy-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" >[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-170295\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Deadline: January 29, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 20-23 July 2026 in person in Trieste, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will take place as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 July (Monday): welcome dinner<\/li>\n<li>21-23 July (Tuesday \u2013 Thursday): workshop<\/li>\n<li>24 July: participants return to their home countries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy training program\u00a0was established in 2014 to expose scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and other interested stakeholders and institutions to science diplomacy concepts, explore key contemporary international policy issues relating to science, technology, environment and health, and build a skillset to allow for careers at the intersection of science and diplomacy. Over the past years, TWAS has trained over three hundred emerging leaders from more than 50 countries to address science diplomacy from global and regional perspectives. The course receives key funding from the\u00a0Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency\u00a0(Sida) and the Golden Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organizers will cover the expenses of pairs selected, including transportation, accommodation, visa processing fees, meals and incidentals.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, there will be opportunities for a small number of self-supported participant pairs (including from high-income countries) to attend the course if selected. Those participants will be responsible for paying their costs in connection to their attendance to the course, except for meals and transportation within Trieste, which is offered by organizers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To strengthen the connection between scientists and governmental officials, decisionmakers and diplomats, applications to attend the course are being invited from \u2018participant pairs\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018participant pair\u2019 will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participant 1: a Early-Career Scientist (ECS) who should be preferably 40 years or below, must have earned a PhD degree and whose research and wider engagement has international policymaking implications or applications, and<\/li>\n<li>Participant 2: a Decisionmaker (DM) from the policymaking arena, working on science, technology, and innovation-related matters. There is no age limit for the co-applicant decisionmaker nor the requirement of a PhD degree. On the other hand, this person should belong to one of the following policy-related categories:\n<ul>\n<li>A local or national government official;<\/li>\n<li>A policymaker;<\/li>\n<li>A diplomat;<\/li>\n<li>Civil servant;<\/li>\n<li>A representative of a research funding institution;<\/li>\n<li>Staff or expert working for an international (e.g. UN) organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligible Countries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The call is open to all countries, however due to limited slots available,\u00a0priority will be given to the following countries that have not had representation in the course over the past five years. Financial support from the organizers is limited to successful applicants from this list of countries:<\/p>\n<p>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.,\u00a0 Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo Rep., C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Cuba, Congo DRC, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,\u00a0 Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People\u2019s Democratic Rep., Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia,\u00a0 Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Qatar, T\u00fcrkiye (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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submitting applications is 29 January (at midnight, CET time zone).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineforms.twas.org\/apply\/294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to apply<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twas.org\/opportunity\/aaas-twas-course-science-diplomacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_column_text css=\"\"] Deadline: January 29, 2026 Applications are open for the AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy 2026. 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