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news ISC General Assembly elects new Governing Board members
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news ISC RFP-AP launches 2026-27 Asia-Pacific Academic Mentoring Programme with nearly 30 new pairings
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events 11th roundtable of ISC unions and associations
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events Indigenous knowledge and transdisciplinary dialogues: Addressing extractivism through co-production in Abya Yala (American continent)
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publications The quiet work of transformation: science and engineering in the decisive leap to 2030
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