Kigali, 10^th November 2022. Rwanda joins the world to celebrate World Science Day for peace and Sustainable Development under the theme “Basics Sciences for Sustainable Development” and celebration at National level will take place at Nyanaza stadium in Nyanza  District in Southern Province.

The celebration event was organized in partnership with National Council for Science and Technology and National Commission for UNESCO, and it marks an occasion to mobilize all actors around the topic of science for sustainable development. The celebration also aims at bringing science closer to society by highlighting some key scientific aspects and possible solutions provided by science, technology, and innovation to some of the major global challenges society is facing today.

In this framework, the 2022 year was called the “International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development”. Applications of basic sciences are vital for advancing in different domains namely: medicine, industry, agriculture, water resources, energy planning, environment, communications, and culture. Having a capacity in basic sciences is in the interests of both developed and developing countries, given the potential for applications to foster sustainable development and raise standards of living. For example, a growing number of people around the world suffer from diabetes. Thanks to laboratory studies of the ways in which genes can be manipulated to make specific protein 3 molecules, scientists are able to engineer genetically a common bacterium, Escherichia coli, to produce synthetic human insulin.

The celebration of the World Science Day (WSD) was recommended during the World Conference on Science that took place in Budapest-Hungary in 1999. The first celebration was held in 2002 and first celebrated in Rwanda in 2009.

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For more, contact Dr. Fabien Habimana, Science Technology and Research Specialist at the Ministry of Education via phone: +250785155265 or Email: fhabimana@mineduc.gov.rw