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PART V INFLUENCING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CAREER TRENDS . . .
PART V INFLUENCING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CAREER TRENDS . . .
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PART V Influencing Science and Technology Career Trends: The Role of International Organizations
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As a contribution to the intellectual formation of European scientists, Academia Europaea has begun 169 publication of the quarterly Europear' Review, which will cover a wide range of topics including human capital development. The Academia's activities are clearly filling an important gap in European scholarship, with particular emphasis on He cross-ferdlization that results from both an interdisciplinary and an international approach, in areas often not treated or sponsored elsewhere.
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As part of the worldwide drive to improve statistics and indicators on human resources in science and technology, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, with the Directorate General for Science, Research, and Development, OECD, the United States, and Canada, is leading the work on the development of a methodological manual for statistics and indicators in the field of human resources in science and technology and is also making pilot collections of data on a regional basis. The Commission is not only tackling the problem of human resources in science and technology by addressing the training needs that result directly from new developments in science and technology, but it is also investigating new tools that would enhance human competence, support existing employment, and improve the quality of life.
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One of its key recommendations was that by the year 2000 there should be a substantial increase in the number of scientists in developing countries that lack researchers and the exodus of scientists from developing regions should be reversed. In 1990, the ICSU General Assembly passed a resolution that stated that while "we live in an era of unprecedented progress in science, the attraction of science to the younger generation seems to be lessening in some countries" and that available statistics "point to the danger of insufficient human resources in science and technology as He twenty-first century opens." The resolution asked ICSU, together with other concerned bodies, to examine the magnitude of this problem.
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The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD. Work on human resources in science and technology is undertaken by two subsidiary bodies of the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy: the group on the science system dealing with policy aspects and Be group of national experts of science and technology indicators working with the staff of the Economic Analysis and Statistics Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry.
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The Academy is a nongovernmental, nonpolitical, and nonprofit organization whose main objectives are to support scientific excellence and research in the Third World. It does this by awarding annual prizes to eminent scientists from Me Third World who have made signuficant contributions in science, by providing fellowships to facilitate contacts between research workers in developing countries, and by encouraging scientific research on major Third World problems.
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CAREERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE development topics, including Science and Engineering Indicators, Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, and Indicators of Science and Mathematics Education.
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