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Regional Offices

TWAS has established five regional offices to help disseminate information about the Academy and its activities throughout the developing world.

 

Regional Offices



Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

TWAS Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (TWAS-ROLAC)
at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Coordinator: Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho
e-mail: contact@twas-rolac.org
website: www.rio.twas.org


Beijing, China

TWAS Regional Office for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific (TWAS-ROESEAP)
at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China
Coordinator: Bai Chunli
e-mail: beijing@twas.org
website: www.beijing.twas.org


Alexandria, Egypt

TWAS Arab Regional Office (TWAS-ARO)
at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt
Coordinator: Ismail Serageldin
e-mail: alexandria@twas.org
website: www.alexandria.twas.org


Bangalore, India

TWAS Regional Office for Central and South Asia (TWAS-ROCASA)
at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India
Coordinator: V. Krishnan
e-mail: bangalore@twas.org
website: www.bangalore.twas.org


Nairobi, Kenya

TWAS Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa (TWAS-ROSSA)
at the African Academy of Sciences in Nairobi, Kenya
Coordinator: Berhanu Abegaz
e-mail: nairobi@twas.org
website: www.nairobi.twas.org
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Excellence in science series

excellence in science seriesExcellence in Science: Profiles of Research Institutions in Developing Countries is a series of booklets published by TWAS highlighting successful scientific institutions in the South. Ten institutions have so far been profiled: INBio (Costa Rica), CBS (Tunisia), IMRA (Madagascar), CDRI (India), IMPLAD (China), IHI (Tanzania), SAIAB (South Africa), NARL (Uganda), ORI (Botswana) and IMS (Zanzibar, Tanzania). The volumes are also available for download as PDF files.

TWAS & UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is responsible for the administration of TWAS finance and staff, based on an agreement between the two organizations and the Italian government which provides the Academy with its core funding. TWAS collaborates closely with UNESCO's Natural Sciences Sector. With ICSU and UNU/IAS, TWAS and UNESCO co-sponsor the joint visiting scientist programme. With ICGEB, TWAS and UNESCO/IBSP have recently launched a new joint project on capacity building in basic molecular biology. UNESCO also provides financial support for the TWAS associateship programme at centres of excellence in the South.