Panama, June 22, 2017. Panama City is proud to host the second edition of the CILAC Open Forum, which is the main regional platform to debate how to design and implement effective scientific policies in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development .
The launch took place at the Miraflores Locks Visitor Center of the Panama Canal and included welcoming words from the Vice President of Corporate Management of the Panama Canal Authority, Eng. Oscar Vallarino, words from the Deputy Director General of Sciences Naturals of UNESCO, Mrs. Flavia Schlegel, and the National Secretary in Charge of Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama, Dr. Víctor Sánchez Urrutia. Various actors from the scientific, technological and academic world of Panama and the region also participated.
The National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Republic of Panama (SENACYT) in cooperation with the UNESCO Regional Science Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Mayor's Office of Panama City, the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and Other national and regional entities organize this II Open Science Forum of Latin America and the Caribbean. CILAC 2018 is formulated around the motto “Science Connects”. CILAC 2018 continues and projects what was inaugurated in its first edition, held in the city of Montevideo in 2016, with the objective of constituting a regional agenda of innovation, science and technology that contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This is a unique conference of its kind, which connects future researchers with top scientists, young entrepreneurs with business and corporation leaders, visionaries and innovators with political decision-makers, artists, designers, inventors and engineers, scientific journalists and outreach centers. scientific. All of them summoned by the enormous challenges of our time, which demand the interdisciplinary and multisectoral collaboration of the entire Latin American and Caribbean society.
CILAC has transcended Latin America and has become a global event, with the participation of representatives from all continents, in a global strategy in favor of science for sustainable development.
Panama City will host this international event, and will be the setting where open and public activities will be carried out daily, inviting citizens to connect with science, technology and innovation, through culture and the arts, including theatre, dance, informal talks, performances and demonstrations.
The Mayor's Office of Panama City, being part of the organization of this relevant conference, from the vision of science at the service of sustainable urban development, calls on citizens to be part of this Forum and make the motto that gives it its name a reality. to the CILAC 2018 Forum: “Science Connects”.
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