Top 60 Young Scientists from around the world to participate in the “Summer Davos”

Fon Mathuros, Communications Dept. World Economic Forum, Tel.: +86 (0)15840889099 – fma@weforum.org

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• The World Economic Forum in cooperation with the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) has selected 60 Young Scientists from around the world  to participate in the “Summer Davos”
• Five awards for “Business Partnerships” will be offered to the most promising projects launched by Young Scientists during the Meeting
• More information on the Meeting is available at: http://www.weforum.org/newchampions

Dalian, People’s Republic of China, 12 September 2009 - At this year’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009 (“Summer Davos” in Asia), over 60 Young Scientists from 35 countries, selected from a highly competitive process, will participate. The Meeting, hosted in partnership with the government of the People’s Republic of China represented by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), will focus on “Relaunching Growth” and welcome more than 1,300 participants.

As a leading platform for international collaboration, the World Economic Forum constantly fosters the process of innovation and helps to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders. Since 2008, the World Economic Forum has collaborated with the InterAcademy Panel of International Issues (IAP) to select “Young Scientists” under the age of 40 from academies of science worldwide.

This scientific community is remarkable for its academic excellence as well as for its diversity. The group gathers scholars from all over the world with the majority of researchers, representing a wide range of disciplines ranging from ecology to economics, from nanotechnology to nuclear physics, coming from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. They are featured as experts and discussion leaders in the “Summer Davos” programme, and take part particularly in sessions under the pillars “Driving Economic Growth through Science and Technology” and “Opportunities in a Green Economy”. (Please click here for the list)

Young Scientists will be joined by the wider World Economic Forum’s community of business entrepreneurs, investors and technologists in workshops aimed at developing educational systems that foster innovation and creating the necessary multistakeholder partnerships to promote excellence in scientific research.

Finally, the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) will offer five awards to support the most innovative and promising projects initiated between Young Scientists and the World Economic Forum’s business community during the “Summer Davos”. The selection process will be headed by the co-chairs of IAP: Chen Zhu, Minister of Health of the People’s Republic of China, and Howard Alper, Chair and President, Science, Technology and Innovation Council, Canada.

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