World Science Day for Peace and Development focuses on Science Museums
The UNESCO General Conference in 2001, proclaimed that Nov 10 will be observed as the World Science Day for Peace and Development to recall the commitment made at the UNESCO-ICSU World Conference on Science (Budapest 1999) -- the importance of science in and for society and that science, peace and development are interlinked.
The annual event highlights the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues. It also underlines the importance and relevance of science in our daily lives.
The 2016 World Science Day for Peace and Development is dedicated to the theme “Celebrating Science Centres and Science Museums”.
The UNESCO, in a release said, "Our starting point is clear. Science stands at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Action, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
These agreements embody a new vision for prosperity, peace and the planet, to allow every society to create and share knowledge, to nurture every source of innovation and creativity, to craft a more inclusive, sustainable and just path to the future. T
aking this forward calls for an ever greater expansion of science and for tighter linkages between science and society.
This is why science centres and museums are so important -- for capacity building, for advocacy, to send strong messages about the importance of science for sustainable development."
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