Science for All

ICTP joined with other Trieste science institutions in a weekend-long celebration of science called TriesteNext.

ICTP contributed with three activities that reflected not only its strong science tradition but also its multicultural heritage:
 

• Roundtable on the impact of climate change on developing countries: Developing countries will be harder by climate change than other regions of the world. From increased temperatures to rising sea levels, climate change puts these regions' water supplies, food security and livelihoods at risk. What steps can we take now to help the more vulnerable locations adapt to these challenges?
  
  ICTP scientist Filippo Giorgi, a climate expert who was also actively involved with the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), addressed these issues, along with Lidia Brito, head of UNESCO's science-policy division and a forestry expert from Mozambique.
   
• International cookbook presentation: Reflecting its international culture perspective, ICTP staff presented "Non-numerical Recipes", a book of international recipes contributed by ICTP staff and visitors. Dressed in native costume, ICTP colleagues Pierre Agbedjro, Karim Aoudia, Koutou Mabilo, Joe Niemela, Ramadas Ramakrishnan, and Erio Tosatti spoke about food from their countries. The book was compiled by Anne Gatti and Elisa Quevedo, and proceeds from its sale go to the Centre's Fund for Hunger.
   
• The organization of "Street Science": ICTP organized and participated in this informal gathering of scientists and the general public "on the street", with speakers including former ICTP Assistant Director Claudio Tuniz, who talked about his research group's discovery, via modern physics tools, of a beeswax filling found in a prehistoric tooth.

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