'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well...'

摘要

ICTP's sister organization in Trieste, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is 20 years old, and celebrated last October in Beijing (China). For Executive Director Mohammed H.A. Hassan, the objectives of TWAS haven't changed since a group of eminent scientists from developing countries, under the leadership of Abdus Salam, set it up in 1983: to encourage excellence in science, support young scientists, promote South/South and North/ South cooperation in science, and to use science and technology to solve practical problems in developing countries. But if the objectives haven't changed, the means have evolved. "Now we're concentrating on the least developed countries," explains Hassan. "We were finding that we were giving little support to the very poor. So we've turned it round.