Launch of Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals (STRINGS) Report | Today at 18:30 IST

Title:	Launch of STRINGS Report/  Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals (STRINGS) Report
Date:	Oct 20, 2022
Time:	15:00 - 16:30 CET/   18:30-20:00 IST
Type:	Online event Register for the event with the following link.

Abstract

As part of an ongoing collaboration that UNU-MERIT is participating in, we are glad to invite you to the launch of the Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals (STRINGS) Report. The STRINGS report is a global study analysing whether the directions being taken by the world's science and technology are adequately aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It shows the glaring mismatch between science, technology and innovation (STI) and the SDGs; warns that if this is not addressed it will undermine progress on the SDGs; and makes recommendations about how this imbalance can be tackled. At the launch event we will build on the STRINGS report's key findings to engage in productive discussions on how to address the misalignments between STI and the SDGs, empower effective policy actions and inform key stakeholders about more inclusive, plural and diverse STI choices in meeting the SDGs by 2030.

About the speaker

• Moderated by: Ehsan Masood, Bureau Chief Editor (Africa and the Middle East), Nature
• Address by: HE Csaba Kőrösi, President of the 77th Session of the UNGA
• Keynote address by: Vanessa Nakate, Climate Justice Activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Panellists

• Lidia Borrell-Damián, Secretary General, Science Europe
• Lidia Brito, Regional Director of Science for LAC region, UNESCO
• Anil Kumar Gupta, Founder Honeybee Network GIAN and Coordinator SRISTI, Former Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation
• Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice-Chancellor, University of Johannesburg, Incoming Rector of United Nations University
• Frances Wood, International Director, UK Research and Innovation
• Haoliang Xu, UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of Bureau of Policy and Programme Support, United Nations Development Programme.

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