President ECOSF attended the 2015 Meeting of IAP SEP at Kuala Lumpur

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President ECOSF Dr. Manzoor Hussain Soomro as a member of the IAP SEP Global Council, participated in the Council meeting held on 26th May 2015, at Istana hotel, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The meeting was chaired by Dato Lee Yee Cheong Chair of the IAP SEP Global Council/Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Dato Lee Yee Cheong welcomed the Global Council members, especially Dr. Mohamed Hassan, saying that it was the first time in several years that an IAP co-chair had attended a meeting of the IAP Science Education Programme Global Council.

President ECOSF emphasized that science education remains key component of development of societies and economies to for a long term sustainable development. He also affirmed that the IAP Regional Networks are quite successful in implementing IBSE, and proposed that it should be the aim of SEP to coordinate these activities as well as to initiate for new Regional Networks such as in ECO or Central Asia region; and member academies be pursued to come on board and implement IBSE.

Dr. Soomro also shared with the Council that a capacity building workshop on IBSE- La main a la pate in Astana Kazakhstan is being organized on June 22-25, 2015 by ECO Science Foundation with the cooperation and collaboration of Govt. of Kazakhstan, ISTIC, LAMAP Foundation France, IDB and the IAP SEP. He also added that he will share details of a kit/game on awareness and education of children in Disaster Management called "Disaster Master" is available with UNESCO Pakistan & Afghanistan that enables children to play, ask questions and learn best responses. Prof. Soomro also shared with the members the details of a meeting on science education at the end of November organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican-Rome. Pierre Lena and Lee Cheong and Manzoor Soomro have been invited to participate and speak. It will be a good opportunity to raise the question of interfaith science education.

While discussing Science as a key to development, President ECOSF confirmed that there were a lot of science and education references in the Quran that can be used for research and development in this field.

Earlier on 24 May, Dr. Soomro also joined the UNESCO Day in Malaysia festival, whereby various scientific, educational and cultural exhibits were displayed. The ISTIC had also put up a stall. The event was opened by the DG UNESCO Ms. Irina Bokova.