Venue: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Date: October 11‐14, 2010

Dubai Institute of Technology (DIT), in collaboration with WAITRO, is pleased to invite you to block your schedule for this forum, which will be held in conjuction with WAITRO's 20th Biennial Congress and General Assembly. Under the theme Leadership for Innovation, the forum will encompass various sessions as listed below:

1. Leadership ‐ 21st Century Innovation Leaders: Roles and Parameters
2. Finance ‐ R&D Financing: Innovative Mechanism
3. IP and Management ‐ IP and Portfolio Management
4. Young Scientists ‐ Young Scientists: Development Programs and Opportunities
5. Knowledge Transfer ‐ Knowledge Transfer: Challenges and Best Practices
6. Policies and Procedures ‐ Government Policies and Procedures: Enabling Innovation Ecosystem
7. Public Private Partnership ‐ PPP Towards Sustainable Industrial Growth
8. Science and Society ‐ Science and Society: A platform for a Value-based Economy Participants who wish to present at the conference are invited to write papers on the above subjects.


The deadline for abstract submissions is on April 30th, 2010. The BROCHURE can be downloaded by clicking HERE.

For more information on the call for papers and submission of abstracts which should be in English language, kindly contact:

Ms Samira Manar
E-mail: samira.manar@ezw.ae
Phone: +9714 8814888
Fax: +9714 8871626

Venue: Abu Dhabi University Khalifa City Campus
and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Date: November 22–24, 2010

This Conference is organised and funded by Aim Events, the Conference and Event Organising division of Abu Dhabi University and supported by the National Research Foundation and Emirates Foundation.

Topics covered by the conference are as follows:
•Value adding by sustainable manufacturing in the UAE
•Potentials of renewables
•Education for sustainability engineering
•Green supply chain
•Microelectronics and resource efficiency
•Technology driven startups

Interested authors are invited to submit full papers (maximum 6 pages) in English, as a PDF or MS Word file. Guidelines to prepare the full papers is available in the conference website. These papers should be uploaded to the website for review and comments by the International Committee.

The BROCHURE can be downloaded by clicking HERE.

For more information on the call for papers, kindly contact:
Prof. Dr. M. K. Khraisheh
Dean
Masdar Institute for Science and Technology
P.O. Box 54224,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Phone: +971 2 698 8122
Fax: +971 2 698 8121
E-mail: dean-cirp@masdar.ac.ae
Website: www.8th-gcsm-abudhabi.com

The Turkish Science and Research Foundation (TUBAV) is pleased to announce that two International Scientific Conferences in the fields of ICT and Energy will be organised in Ankara with active participation of TUBAV's Executives (President Prof. Seref Sagiroglu, Vice President Fatih M. SAHIN, and Executive Committe members: Prof. H. Mehmet SAHIN and Dr. Erol KURT) as the Co-Chairmen, Members of Organising/Scientific/Advisory Committees in these conferences. The names and the websites of the conferences are as follows:

1. International Conference on Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources
Venue: Gazi University's Golbasi Culture Center, Ankara, Turkey
Date: July 4th-7th, 2010
For further information, please go to: http://www.nurer.org

2. ISC '10, the 4th in a series of conferences on Information Security and Cryptology
Venue: METU Culture and Convention Center, Ankara, Turkey
Date: May 6th-7th, 2010
For further information, please go to: http://www.iscturkey.org

The Call for Nominations for the 2011 L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards "For Women in Science" dedicated to the Physical Sciences were sent via post in March. This is a reminder to submit your nominations for the 2011 L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards "For Women in Science" dedicated to the Physical Sciences. If you prefer to submit your nomination(s) via the Internet, an online nomination site has been developed.

Please access the Nomination form through this link: https://ww5.eudonet.com/app/specif/EUDO_00481/UnescoSiteWeb/Authentification.aspx?formulaire=parrain&prix=

Your login is your e-mail address and the password is FWIS2011

Since its inception in 1998, the For Women in Science partnership expands each year. To date, the L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards have distinguished 62 eminent women scientists at the height of their career and the International Fellowships have supported 150 promising young women scientists to pursue doctoral and postdoctoral research projects. In recent years, a network of National Fellowship programs at the doctoral level, now in over 45 countries with new programs launching every year, has encouraged over 700 young women to continue their scientific research studies within their country of origin.

The 2009 L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards Jury in Physical Sciences was presided by Professor Ahmed Zewail, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999, in the presence of Professor Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974 and Founding President of the Awards. The Jury designated the following Laureates in the Physical Sciences:

- Professor Tebello NYOKONG (South Africa) for Africa and Arab States
- Professor Akiko KOBAYASHI (Japan) for Asia Pacific
- Professor Athene DONALD (United Kingdom) for Europe
- Professor Beatriz BARBUY (Brazil) for Latin America
- Professor Eugenia KUMACHEVA (Canada) for North America

Last December was a historic moment for the L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards when two of the 2009 Nobel Prizes in Science were awarded to former Laureates of the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards. Ada Yonath (Israel), Laureate in 2008, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Elizabeth Blackburn (USA), also Laureate in 2008, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

The five US$100,000 Awards will be presented in March 2011 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to five women scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to scientific advancement in their field.

The DEADLINE for submitting nominations is JUNE 15TH, 2010.

Should you have any enquiries, please send an e-mail to: lorealunescoawards@dgc.loreal.com

We would like to inform that Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) has appointed a new governor effective from February 15th, 2010. It is with pleasure that we introduce and welcome the new governor, Mrs. Kasemsri Homchean, to the WAITRO family.