Quarterly meeting for ISC Members with the ISC President 

In this first quarterly Zoom meeting of 2025, the President will reflect on the Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue and Third ISC General Assembly held in January 2025 and provide general updates on ISC activities.

All representatives, focal points as well as members of the executive committees and secretariats of ISC Members, as well as ISC Fellows, are invited to attend this first quarterly Zoom meeting in 2025 with the ISC President Sir Peter Gluckman.

Recordings

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Related resources

Current calls to action

• Call for nominations for ISC Standing Committees
• Call for case studies to be featured in the Scientific and Technological Community Major Group position paper for the 2025 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
• Please disseminate the ISC’s messages around the UN Ocean Conference to help keep science at the centre of the process – please feel free to use and share the ISC communications kit
• Please share your activities and initiatives around the 2025 UN Ocean Conference

Events

• “Science diplomacy and the global state of affairs” – Sir Peter Gluckman’s speech at the EU Network of Science Advisors and Science Diplomacy Coordinators in Ministries of Foreign Affairs, a satellite event to UNESCO’s Global Ministerial Dialogue on Science Diplomacy
• ISC President calls for strengthened science diplomacy at UNESCO Global Ministerial Dialogue on Science Diplomacy
• Recent meeting of science funders to discuss mechanisms for financing actionable science
• ISC’s science-based priorities to shape the outcomes of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference and inform the Ocean Declaration
• Launch of the World Day for Glaciers and of the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences
• 5th International Polar Year
• Highlights from the Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue and Third ISC General Assembly (January 2025)
• Access all General Assembly recordings and documents

Activities

• ISC affiliated bodies
• 2nd edition of the ISC report “AI in national research ecosystems” – Progress, challenges and lessons learned
• Pacific Academy of Sciences
• ISC-CAST initiative to empower Early- and Mid-Career Researchers
• ISC regional presences
• ISC Fellows

Outline agenda

Contact

Anne Thieme

Anne Thieme

Communications Officer, Membership Liaison

International Science Council

Anne Thieme