Science has always relied on connecting people and ideas from across the globe, and research is strengthened by interaction with the best scientists and engineers wherever they are. The movement of ideas and talented researchers across disciplines and boundaries is of critical importance.
We will:
- Establish a major new international fellowship scheme to attract the world’s most gifted scientists to the UK and sustain long-term relations with them.
- Elect Fellows and Foreign Members from across the world, effectively engage our international and domestic Fellowship in our work and encourage collaboration between scientists wherever they may be.
- Ensure that the UK scientific community is engaged with key scientific opportunities internationally and that science and technology is seen as a driver for development.
- Promote the UK as scientific partner of collaborative choice around the globe, and the Royal Society as the facilitating partner of choice in the UK for policy and other initiatives.
- Ensure the Royal Society, and therefore the UK scientific community, is engaged and influential in European and global international scientific debate, policy and initiatives, including science and technology for development.
- Seek to reduce the scientific imbalance between rich and poor countries with advice, mentoring and support for science academies within developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.
- Expand our international collaborations through fellowships, funding schemes, scientific exchanges, lectures and scientific discussion meetings, science policy work and our journals and visits, joint projects and conference attendance.
- Support environmental research programmes, frontiers of science meetings and international themed events.
- Promote the Royal Society as a role model among international academies and other active scientific bodies.