IBSE ROUNDTABLE. ( 16th April 2013)

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2 IBSE ROUNDTABLE ( 16th April 2013) Editor-in-chief of Science; President Obama s first science envoy to the Islamic World; Professor Emeritus of the University of California, San Francisco; Former President of the National Academy of Sciences; Co-chair of the InterAcademy Council - an Amsterdam-based organization governed by the presidents of 15 national academies of science and established to provide scientific advice to the world; widely recognized for his work in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology; author of The Molecular Biology of the Cell; recipient of 16 honorary degrees; holder of numerous honors and awards; and currently serving on the advisory boards of more than 25 non-profit institutions.

3 IBSE ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS H.E. Souad Abdel Razek Federal Minister of General Education Dato Ir(Dr) Lee Yee Cheong Chairman, ISTIC Prof Romain Murenzi Executive Director TWAS Prof. Mohamed BELAICHE Moroccon Academy of Sciences Prof Maged Al-Sherbiny President, Academy of Sciences, Egypt Ms Jackie Olang Programmes Director, NASAC Prof Yves Quere French Academy of Sciences Prof Ahmadou Wague IBSE Africa Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri Director General, ISESCO Prof Mohamed E. Altom Sudanese National Academy of Sciences IBSE Roundtable Programme IBSE Roundtable Day 1 Tuesday 16 April 2013 Session 1 : Opening Master of ceremonies - Mrs Salma Fathi 9:00 9:10 Welcome by Dr El Tayeb Mustafa, Future University, Sudan 9:10 9:20 Address by Academician Dato Ir(Dr) Lee Yee Cheong, Chairman, ISTIC Governing Board 9:20 9:30 Address by Prof Romain Murenzi, Executive Director, TWAS 9:30 9:40 Address by Representative of Director-General, ISESCO, Dr. Ismail Abdelhamid 9:40 9:50 Address by Prof Yves Quere, Co-Founder, La main à la pâte (LAMAP) 9:50 10:00 Address and Official Opening by HE Minister of General Education Souad Abdel Razek 10:00 10:35 Keynote Address by Prof Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief Science (Science Envoy for the US President) - Introduced by Prof Mohamed Hassan - 10:35 10:40 Group Photo 10:40 11:00 Tea Break Session 2 : Global / Regional Perspective Moderator - Prof. Mohamed Hassan 11:00 11:20 IAP and its role in promoting science education by Prof Mohamed Hassan, IAP Co-Chair 11:20 11:40 IBSE Global Outreach of LAMAP by Prof Yves Quere, Co-Founder, La main à la pâte 11:40 12:00 Science Education in Africa: the Role of NASAC by Ms Jackie Olang, Programmes Director, The Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) 12:00 12:20 Science Education and IBSE in Teacher Training in Africa by Prof Ahmedou Wague, Vice Chairman IAP Regional Science Education Programme for Africa 12:20 13:20 Lunch break Session 3 : Country Case Studies Moderator - Dr. El Tayeb Mustafa 13:20 13:40 IBSE Experience in Egypt by Prof Maged Al-Sherbiny, President, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology; Assistant Minister, Ministry for Scientific Research, Egypt 13:40 14:00 IBSE Experience in Morocco by Prof Mohammed Belaiche, Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology 14:00 14:20 Science Education in Sudan by Prof Mohamed E. Altom, Sudanese National Academy of Sciences 14:20 14:50 Q&A Session 4 : Wrap-up Moderator - Dato Ir. (Dr.) Lee Yee Cheong 16:00 Conclusions and Recommendations of the Round Table.

4 ( 17 th April 2013) The Future of Science Education - Challenges and Opportunities LEAD SPEAKER Chairman of the Governing Board of the International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation; member of the Governing Board of The Future University; Former President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO); Chairman of the board of the ASEAN Council of Academies of Science, Engineering and Technology; Co-ordinator of the UN Millenium Project, Science, Technology and Innovation. Task Force and Member of the National Economic and Social Council of Kenya. Dato Ir.(Dr.) Lee Yee Cheong

5 PANELISTS H. E. Mrs. Soad Abdelrazig Federal Minister of General Education, Sudan Dr. Adnan Badran Former Prime Minister of Jordan; Former Deputy Director-General of Unesco-Paris; Former Minister of Education and Minister of Agriculture; Former President of Yarmuk University and Jordan University for Science and Technology; Former president of Philadelphia University; President of University of Petra; President of the Arab Academy of Sciences; Cochairman of the Board of Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabhi; Member of the Board of the Future University, Sudan. Yves Quere Member and Foreign Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences; Full Professor at the prestigious Polytechnic School of Paris; Member of the Jury for the Bower Prize, Philadelphia (USA); Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences; Chair of the Scientific Council for Nuclear waste in France (ANDRA); Former Co-Chair of InterAcademy Panel (IAP); Co Chair of the French-Chinese Foundation for Science and its Applications; Winner of the Silver medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France); and Doctor Honoris causa, Polytechnic University, Bucharest (Romania). Dr Alec Boksenberg Professor of Astronomy at University College London, University of Sussex and Cambridge University; Former Director of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; Chairman of the UK National Commission for UNESCO; developer of the Image Photon Counting System (IPCS) for detecting optical and ultraviolet signals at the quantum level; and Fellow of the Royal Society. Prof Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief Science MODERATOR FUF Prof Mohamed Hassan IAP Co-Chair DIRECTOR FUF

6 Future University Forum Programme Future University Forum The Future of Science Education - Challenges and Opportunities Wednesday 17 April :00 13:00 Davos-style discussion - Moderator: Prof Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief Science Introduction: Prof Mohamed Hassan, Director, Future University Fora Lead speaker: Dato Ir.(Dr.) Lee Yee Cheong, ISTIC Governing Board Panelists: Prof Adnan Badran, Former Prime Minister, Jordan Souad Abdel Razek, H.E. Federal Minister of General Education, Sudan Prof Romain Murenzi Executive Director, TWAS Prof Yves Quere, Co-Founder, La Main a la Pate Dr Alec Boksenberg, Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University Discussion followed by concluding remarks by Prof Bruce Alberts 13:00 Lunch and End of Future University Forum OFFICIAL SPONSORS The Future University P.O Box Wad Medani Street Khartoum, Sudan Tel : info@futureu.edu.sd