Anuska Sen, Team BioXone
“Science is simply common sense at its best,” said Thomas Henry Huxley, the world-famous English biologist.
Celebrated on the 10th of November every year, the World Science Day for Peace and Development (also known as International Science Day or World Science Day in short), aims at spreading knowledge about the indispensable role of science in our daily lives, and the society in a bigger frame. The day tells us that it is not only the job of a scientist or a researcher or any other related professional to care about bringing a change in the world by implementing science. Since science impacts every life directly or indirectly, each of us has the responsibility to make science increasingly accessible to everyone and realize its utmost value for us.
History of World Science Day:
It was agreed in the World Conference on Science held in Budapest in 1999 that the advancements of the “Science Agenda: Framework for Action” would be followed up each year. As a positive outcome of the conference, in 2001, UNESCO proposed to celebrate World Science Day on 10th November every year.
The World Science Day for Peace and Development was commemorated for the first time in 2002 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), a specialized agency of the UN that promotes world peace and security. The day was commemorated to spread the awareness among people that science is inevitable in building a peaceful and healthy society.
The theme for World Science Day 2021:
Climate change is an arising matter of concern in almost every corner of the globe. Keeping this in mind, the theme for World Science Day for this year has been proposed as “Building Climate-Ready Communities”. This is expected to bring up novel ideas, technologies, and innovations involving science to mitigate the existing major global challenges.
The last year 2020, has the theme “Science for and with Society in dealing with COVID-19”. M. Venkaiah Naidu, the vice-president of India earlier said that “World Science Day for Peace and Development is a day to remind us that the ultimate aim of science is to bring happiness and make people’s lives better”.
Objectives of World Science Day:
World Science Day aims to accentuate and inform people about the crucial role of science in society. It tries to bridge the gap between science and society. The day also lets people know the awe-inspiring roles our scientists play in understanding and making the planet a better place to live in.
Some of its other objectives, as mentioned by UNESCO, are to:
- strengthen public awareness of the role of science for peaceful and sustainable societies;
- promote national and international solidarity for shared science between countries;
- renew national and international commitment for the use of science for the benefit of societies; and
- draw attention to the challenges faced by science in raising support for the scientific endeavour.
Thus to conclude, let us keep believing that “Science is the systematic classification of experience”, as said by renowned physiologist George Henry Lewes and there will be hundreds and thousands of groundbreaking innovations in the future.
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Reference:
- World Science Day for Peace and Development, 10 November. United Nations. https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-science-day
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Author info:
Anuska Sen is one of the directors of BIOXONE BIOSCIENCES PVT. LTD. She is also the Subject-Matter Expert (SME) of the “BiotechToday” section on the BioXone.in the website. She is currently pursuing MSc. in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from the University of Calcutta and has completed her Bachelors (B.Sc. Hons.) in Biotechnology from Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Kolkata. Although the research domains she is primarily involved in are plant biotechnology and molecular biology, she has a keen interest in various other bioscience subjects as well.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuska-sen-b688231b8/
Publications:
- Das, B., Sen, A., Roy, S., Banerjee, O., & Bhattacharya, S. (2021). miRNAs: Tiny super-soldiers shaping the life of rice plants for facing “stress”-ful times. Plant Gene, 26, 100281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plgene.2021.100281
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