International Council for Science

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The International Science (English International Council for Science, French Conseil International pour la Science ), short ICSU, formerly International Council of Scientific Unions, is the international umbrella organization created in 1931, the scientific societies and academies of science, based in Paris.

Overview

The Association is a scientific non-profit and non-governmental organization, which has set itself the goal according to the statute, worldwide, to promote scientific and technological activities, the strengthening of research resources and the public understanding of science. Here, the ICSU is working closely with the UN and other governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Members are 25 international organizations, as well as 95 national academies. The German-speaking countries are represented by the German Research Foundation, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Natural Sciences Switzerland. As a board committee acts the Executive Board, every three years the General Assembly ( Assembly ) of the members who fully fund the ICSU instead.

History

After the First World War was founded in 1918 in Paris, the International Research Council, in short IRC, and 1919 was held the same, the first General Assembly in Brussels. The restrictive statutes prevented the accession of the successor states of the former Central Powers, including the German Empire and the Republic of Austria. In order to keep things running, a weighted voting has been designed taking into account the colonial population of the individual states and explains the statutes for the next twelve years as unalterable. Consequently, the debates on the relaxation of reception conditions in the years 1922 and 1925 both ended in disagreement, although in the latter case the vote turned out just barely. As from 1926 the resistance crumbled France against the German membership itself, one was in Germany after years of systematic suppression and boycott of German science is not ready to join the IRC.

1998 was followed by another name change to International Council for Science, the acronym ICSU was retained, to avoid confusion with other organizations.

Members (international organizations)

  • International Astronomical Union
  • International Brain Research Organization
  • International Geographical Union
  • International Union for Quaternary Research
  • International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
  • International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • International Union of Biological Sciences
  • International Union of Crystallography
  • International Union of Food Science and Technology
  • International Union of Forest Research Organizations
  • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
  • International Union of Geosciences
  • International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
  • International Union of immunological societies
  • International Union of Material Research Societies
  • International Union of microbiological societies
  • International Union of Nutritional Sciences
  • International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics
  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
  • International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
  • International Union for Clinical Pharmacology
  • International Union of Physiological Sciences
  • International Union of Psychological Science
  • International Union of Soil Science
  • International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  • International Union of Toxicology
  • Union Radio Scientifique International
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences International Mathematical Union IUMS International Union of Soil Sciences
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