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Ralph Weber at the Annual Meeting of the International Science Council (ISC)
Ralph Weber gave a talk at the 6th Annual Meeting of European Members of the International Science Council (ISC) in Podgorica, Montenegro. The conference took place from 14-15 September and brought together experts to discuss perspectives and challenges in science at both the national and global levels.
Ralph Weber participated in the event with his presentation titled "Scientific Cooperation with the People’s Republic of China – Challenges and How to Respond to Them." His contribution was part of the "Science and Democracy" section, which was chaired by Giselinde Kuipers, Professor of Sociology at KU Leuven and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other speakers included Ellen Rutten, Professor of Slavonic Literature and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, and Jeroen de Kloet, Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
The European ISC Members form an informal group comprising 48 member organizations of the International Science Council (ISC) in Europe. The International Science Council (ISC) was established in 2018 as a non-governmental organization that unites over 200 international scientific unions and associations at the national and regional levels. Some of its major ongoing programs include the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), DIVERSITAS: An International Programme of Biodiversity Science, and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
Ralph Weber is Associate Professor of European Global Studies at the Institute for European Global Studies. He specializes in Political Theory, Chinese Politics, and modern Confucianism. Currently, he is the President of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy and the Chair of the Section on Political Theory in the Swiss Political Science Association.