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History of World Science Forum

The World Science Forum series

The World Science Forum series was inspired by the success of the prestigious meeting "World Conference on Science for the Twenty-First Century: a New Commitment", held between 26 June to 1 July 1999 in Budapest, Hungary and convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU), in co-operation with other partners.

Driven by the need for a forum for discussion between the scientific community and society, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in partnership with UNESCO, ICSU and AAAS established a series of follow-up events called World Science Forum, taking place biennially in Budapest.

A meeting to foster and maintain a dialogue between the scientific community, society, policy-makers, and industry

During the four days of World Science Fora over 900 leading scientists, decision-makers from the world of politics, industry, representatives of the civil society and the media express their views on the new challenges facing science i

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Science World Turns 30

Scott Sampson left Vancouver in 1986, just after Expo. He was 26 and embarking on a career made of the stuff of children’s dreams: dinosaur paleontologist. Twenty years later, he had everything a budding Indiana Jones could ever have hoped for—a tenured position at a top university, a team of graduate students, a museum for which he was the curator, and numerous dinosaur discoveries to his name. But as much as he loved turning up previously unknown bones in the seemingly bottomless prehistoric ecosystem of Southern Utah, he increasingly found himself looking to the future instead of the past.

“I couldn’t ignore the fact that we are at a critical moment in human history, and the decisions we make in the next generation will impact the planet for millennia—it’s not going to be solved by people discovering dinosaurs that lived 75 million years ago,” he says. “And so I walked away.”

There was no plan. He wrote a book, did some consulting work, fronted the PBS kids show Dinosaur Train (and served as its science adviser), and put his energies into what he cal

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Science World (Vancouver)

For other uses, see Science World (disambiguation).

Science museum in British Columbia, Canada

Science World is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization called ASTC Science World Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the end of False Creek and features many permanent interactive exhibits and displays, as well as areas with varying topics throughout the years.

Prior to the building being handed over to Science World by the city government in 1987, the building was built as Expo Centre for the Expo 86world's fair. Following the end of Expo 86, the building was re-purposed as a science centre. The science centre opened on May 6, 1989, as Science World.^[2] From 2005 to 2020, the museum was branded as Science World at Telus World of Science, before it reverted to its original name.

History

In 1977, Barbara Brink ran mobile hands-on exhibits known as the Extended I around British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Later, the temporary Arts, Sciences & Technology Centre opened in downtown