Statutory meeting - Role of Basic Science and STEM education for Sustainable Development

Basic sciences and fundamental research are main drivers of innovations and technologies, needed for the economic progress and for the solutions of global societal challenges, like climate change, energy, health and other goals of UN Agenda 2030, including peace-building through science. The large socio-economic impact of the abstract science, especially physics and engineering, is often largely unknown by society and young students do not realise, how important it is to become new generation of STEM specialists.