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The GESDA 2023 Science Breakthrough Radar®: the Executive Summary
Backed by the Swiss government, CERN and UBS, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation got its new creation off the ground: an institute in Geneva to ensure that future quantum computing is used for the common good.
GESDA joins forces with the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CERN and UBS to get the Open Quantum Institute off the ground
Backed by the Swiss government, CERN and UBS, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation got its new creation off the ground: an institute in Geneva to ensure that future quantum computing is used for the common good.
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit in coming on 11-13 October
Anticipation will once again be at the heart of our third Geneva Science and Diplomacy...
GESDA Youth and Anticipation Initiative 2023: Competition Announcement
From left: Niel Swanepoel, Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng, Rejoyce Kgabo Legodi and Bekithemba Ntoni....
GESDA Youth and Anticipation Initiative 2023 is coming in August
Based on the success of last year’s edition, we are happy to launch the GESDA Youth and...
GESDA President Peter Brabeck-Letmathe appears before the International Chamber of Commerce and World Chambers Federation
GESDA President Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, right, speaks on a panel that included Tatiana Valovaya,...
Geneva Science Diplomacy Week – 8-12 May 2023 – Day Five
Photo by Michael Chiribau, UNITAR Division for Multilateral Diplomacy Greetings and...
Geneva Science Diplomacy Week – 8-12 May 2023 – Day Four
Photo by Michael Chiribau, UNITAR Division for Multilateral Diplomacy Greetings and...
Geneva Science Diplomacy Week – 8-12 May 2023 – Day Three
Photo by Michael Chiribau, UNITAR Division for Multilateral Diplomacy Greetings and...
Geneva Science Diplomacy Week – 8-12 May 2023 – Day Two
Photo by Michael Chiribau, UNITAR Division for Multilateral Diplomacy Greetings and...
Geneva Science Diplomacy Week – 8-12 May 2023 – Day One
Photo by Michael Chiribau, UNITAR Division for Multilateral Diplomacy
GESDA and NYUAD commit to promoting quantum computing for the SDGs through long-term collaboration
New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation...
GESDA, GCSP and Columbia University launch a program to anticipate the future of peace and war
There’s a lot of war in 2023: The world faces the highest number of violent conflicts that it’s...
GESDA publishes the proceedings of its Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Summit 2022
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) Foundation publishes the proceedings of its...
Apply for the 2023 Science Diplomacy Week immersion program!
From 8-12 May 2023, the Geneva Coalition on Anticipatory Science and Diplomacy will organize the...
Debated in Davos: science as a potential driver for renewed multilateralism.
"New technologies, science, diplomacy and anticipation must play a key role in the redefinition of...
GESDA strengthens its ties with South Africa by participating in the World Science Forum
What better place to promote the creation of an Open Quantum Institute (OQI) than at the World...
The GESDA Foundation organizes its scale-up phase 2022-2032
The second editions of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit and the GESDA Science...
A survey to hear your thoughts on the Open Quantum Institute
An Open Quantum Institute (OQI) for whom? to do what? with whom? These are some of the questions...
The President of the Swiss Confederation takes part in the closing session of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit with his colleagues from the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Estonia, Morocco and Mexico
Swiss President of the Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chair of the...
GESDA Foundation proposes the creation of an Open Quantum Institute at Geneva within 5 years
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, President of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), opened...
An OECD delegation at GESDA headquarters
A delegation of more than thirty Permanent Representatives to the Organisation for Economic...
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe presents GESDA’s plans to the Swiss Ambassadors’ conference
As it gears up for the next 10 years, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation...
Second GESDA Summit ahead: Science and Diplomacy in the spotlight in Geneva!
The second Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit is taking shape nicely. After the...
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor and GESDA Board Member Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng hosts first science of the future webinar in the framework of the new UCT-GESDA Youth and Anticipation Initiative
The original article is available on the website of the University of Cape Town. Kicking off a...
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) is putting science on the global diplomatic agenda
The original article is available in the newsletter of The Geneva Observer. Six months after its...
Science Diplomacy Week – Geneva – 16-20 May 2022 – Day Five
Greetings and welcome to a brief news update on the fifth and final day of a weeklong immersion...
Science Diplomacy Week – Geneva – 16-20 May 2022 – Day Four
Greetings and welcome to a brief news update on the fourth day of a weeklong immersion program for...
Science Diplomacy Week – Geneva – 16-20 May 2022 – Day Three
Greetings and welcome to a brief news update on the third day of a weeklong immersion program for...
Science Diplomacy Week – Geneva – 16-20 May 2022 – Day Two
Greetings and welcome to a brief news update on the second day of a weeklong immersion program for...
Science Diplomacy Week – Geneva – 16-20 May 2022 – Day One
Greetings and welcome to a brief news update plus photos from the high-level panel session at the...
The GESDA Foundation adopts its 2022 programme of activities
Following the decisions of the Swiss and Geneva governments to extend the existence of the Geneva...
The Proceedings of the first GESDA Summit are now available – dive into them!
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when infection rates were rather low and...
Science diplomacy: Federal Council continues to support GESDA Foundation after successful pilot phase
At its meeting on 4 March 2022, the Federal Council decided to extend the mandate of the Geneva...
GESDA extends its gratitude to the Swiss Government for 10-year validation
GESDA reaction to today’s Swiss Federal Council Press Release Abstract of the Federal...
GESDA pilot phase 2019-2022 at a glance
Press release of the Swiss Federal Council - 4 March 2022 (in French - German - Italian - English)...
Professor Hengartner erklärt: So sieht die Zukunft in fünf Jahren aus
Die originale Version finden Sie auf der Blick Website.Michael Hengartner ist auch Komiteemitglied...
GESDA gathers 14 Institutions to launch a Science Diplomacy Week in International Geneva for current and future leaders in science and diplomacy
GENEVA, Switzerland, 12 January 2022 – From 16-20 May, 2022, the Geneva Coalition on Anticipatory...
Joint event SDI-GESDA: Exploring Future Trends Together
By Nicolas Zahn, Swiss Digital Initiative. Original piece on...
New programs launched to train anticipatory science diplomacy leaders
GENEVA, Switzerland, 8 October 2021 — Twelve Swiss and global institutions are joining forces to...
New GESDA ‘radar’ identifies 216 emerging global science breakthroughs
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator introduced a new global system for identifying the...
XPRIZE & Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator launch partnership to design a quantum computing competition and establish European headquarters
The XPRIZE Quantum competition is one of the elements planned in this new partnership....
GESDA Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe interviewed on World Radio Switzerland
In one of his first ever interviews leading GESDA, Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe speaks at...
Novel science and diplomacy anticipator poised to forge ahead
GESDA's Olivier Dessibourg and Michael Møller, respectively Executive Director, Science...
General Assembly of the Diplomatic Club of Geneva: Speech by Mr. Ivan Pictet
On the occasion of their 2021 General Assembly on 2 September 2021, the Club Diplomatique de...
Three additional high-ranking speakers announced for the first Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit
The first Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit has the honour to welcome three new...
Alexandre Fasel: «En tant qu’Etat hôte, notre rôle est d’anticiper les révolutions scientifiques à venir»
"La Genève internationale est-elle adaptée au monde d’aujourd’hui? Au vu de la radicalité des...
Singapore’s Covid-19 strategy, still setting the ‘gold standard’?
Kasmira Jefford interviewed at length Chorh Chuan Tan, GESDA Board member, for a feature article...
ASEAN Ambassadors visit GESDA at Campus Biotech
On 29 July 2021, a delegation of Swiss-based Ambassadors of member countries of the Association of...
Fondation pour Genève partners with GESDA to boost anticipatory science
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) and the Fondation pour Genève jointly...
Leading global voices to participate in first GESDA Summit on the future of anticipatory science diplomacy
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) announced today that its inaugural annual...
Michael Møller, président du forum diplomatique de GESDA, décoré de la Légion d’honneur
A l’occasion des festivités du 14-Juillet organisées par François Rivasseau, ambassadeur...
GESDA sharing its expertise for a workshop on AI, tech diplomacy and conflict resolution
How are digital technologies, artificial intelligence and technology diplomacy affecting...
Decarbonisation technologies also address other environmental problems
Scientists at EPFL are designing porous materials that may not only help with carbon capture but...
“We, humans, have to be able to interpret what algorithms say”
Advanced machine learning techniques are pervasive and being integrated in many fields of society,...
How to design AI for the greater good
It is widely recognized that the economic and political impacts of machine learning techniques...
“Plus de science dans la diplomatie, plus de diplomatie dans la science”
Le Conseiller fédéral Ignazio Cassis était présent lors du 25ème anniversaire de l'Université de...
‘Laws alone are no match for the power of AI’
GESDA is thrilled to co-organize the Anticipating the future of artificial intelligence and its...
Science diplomacy: a slogan or a concrete asset for society?
Our Executive Director of the Diplomacy Forum Daria Robinson is featured in today's Geneva...
Science diplomacy and cross-border cooperation focus of German-speaking foreign ministers’ meeting in Lugano
Today the five foreign ministers from Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Switzerland...
Press release: GESDA to hold inaugural summit in October for global diplomacy initiatives based on emerging science breakthroughs
GENEVA, Switzerland, 13 April 2021 — The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), a Swiss...
Looking retrospectively at 18 months of activity: the GESDA Activity Report 2019 & 2020 is out
GESDA’s first annual Activity Report is rich in fact and figures, demonstrating our commitment in...
L’ambassadeur Alexandre Fasel, nommé premier représentant spécial pour la diplomatie scientifique à Genève
Nommé par le Conseil fédéral, l’ambassadeur Alexandre Fasel sera le premier en charge de la...
The first GESDA Science & Diplomacy Plenary session, as seen by the participants
GESDA’s mission is to anticipate possible scientific advances and accelerate the development of...
GESDA supports International Day of Women and Girls in Science
On 11 February each year is celebrated United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in...
Michael Møller interviewed on World Radio Switzerland
GESDA Diplomacy Forum Chair Michael Møller was invited on World Radio Switzerland on 8 February...
Strong media interest for GESDA’s announcement of Diplomacy Forum members
With 24 articles and interviews collected in national media outlets, the announcement of GESDA’s...
Ignazio Cassis: science and diplomacy key to inclusive development
Last year, the Swiss government launched an initiative aimed at bolstering Switzerland as a future...
GESDA gathers its high-level academic and diplomacy panels to leverage anticipatory science advances and address emerging global challenges in an innovative way
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), a Swiss foundation dedicated to anticipation...
Samantha Besson, membre du Conseil de Fondation GESDA, inaugure sa leçon « Reconstruire l’ordre institutionnel international » au Collège de France
Titulaire de la chaire Droit international des institutions depuis 2019 au Collège de France,...
Science’s valuable lessons from journeys into the unknown
In this Op-Ed published in the GS Daily Brief newsletter in the framework of GESDA’s partnership...
Ignazio Cassis met GESDA en lumière dans son éditorial de «Politorbis»
Pour la toute dernière édition du magazine «Politorbis», consacré à la politique extérieure de la...
GESDA described in « Ticino Welcome », the magazine for business and society of the Canton of Ticino
In the latest (December 2020-January2021) edition of the magazine Ticino Welcome, covering...
The future practice of data governance in debate
Data plays a pivotal role in many avenues of our lives, our economies, and our societies. This...
GESDA included by the Geneva Internet Platform in its Digital Atlas
GESDA has just joined the 500+ actors community of the Geneva Digital Atlas, alongside the World...
I-DAIR launches its incubation phase
This initiative has been accompanied by GESDA since its inception. I-DAIR stands for International...
The imperative of a new multilateralism – enhanced by science
Op-Ed of Michael Møller, chair of GESDA’s Diplomacy Forum, published in Geneva Solutions. “You...
Micheline Calmy-Rey: How AI could become the new frontier in conflict resolution
The former Swiss President and GESDA Board member in an interview with Geneva Solutions In...
The importance of science anticipation
Podcast interview of Sandro Giuliani, Executive Director Impact Fund and Impact Forum at GESDA...
Matthias Egger reelected as President of the National Research Council
The epidemiologist, Board member of GESDA, will be starting his second four-year term [SNF Press...
Hungry for daily science anticipation news? GESDA is now live on social media!
A selection of our Best Reads is published daily on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. GESDA’s...
Le job des patrons des EPF est « un honneur »
Interview croisée de Joël Mesot (président de l’EPFZ) et Martin Vetterli (président de l’EPFL),...
Publication of GESDA Progress Report No1 (July 2020)
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator launches its First anticipatory mapping of science...