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The 6th WLA Forum Ends with Strong Call for Global Scientific Cooperation
SHANGHAI, Nov. 9, 2023 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

The 6th World Laureates Forum, themed "Science Leads Transformation", came to a 
close with a powerful call to the scientists around the world to unite and take 
the lead in science reformation for a more resilient future. 

The three-day event saw the convergence of over 300 intellectuals from 25 
countries and regions, including esteemed recipients of the Nobel Prize, the 
Turing Award, the Wolf Prize, and many other prestigious scientific accolades. 

Held against the backdrop of a world marked by increasingly complex global 
challenges, encompassing international relations, and environmental 
disruptions, the forum bridged among the scientists in different research 
fields and aimed to address the profound impacts on science and innovation 
through open dialogues and the exchange of ideas, spurring inspirations and 
proposing realistic solutions. 

At the flagship WLA Life Science Forum, the WLA Intelligent Science Forum, and 
the WLA Zero Carbon Forum, the world laureates and scholars discussed about the 
transformation in the fields for applicable solutions to address pressing 
global issues. 

The WLA Young Scientists HUB marked another new platform set up especially for 
the over 100 young scientists to share their novel findings where the most 
exciting discussions were carried out. 

Some really touching and inspiring moments happened during the 
attention-drawing WLA SHE Forum, which were encouraging for more females to 
bravely pursuing the scientific ambitions. 

60 world laureates made free speeches at the WLA Mobius Forum, analyzing and 
demonstrating outlooks for transforming science education for a better future. 
Like the mobius strip, science education should reach out to everyone 
throughout the whole life, according to Edvard Moser, 2014 Nobel Laureate in 
Physiology or Medicine and Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems 
Neuroscience, Co-Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at Norwegian 
University of Science and Technology. 

Notably, the total media exposure of the 6th WLA Forum spikes to over 1 
billion, with worldwide online-views reaching about four million and over 10 
thousand participants turned up.

Erwin NEHER, 1991 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and Director and 
Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences 
said: "I'm convinced that we can offer solutions to many of the problems that 
we are facing today."

Peidong Yang, 2015 MacArthur Fellow and S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished 
Chair in Energy and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley emphasized the 
importance of scientific cooperation to address the global issues.
 
The 6th WLA Forum is hosted by World Laureates Association and Chinese 
Association of Science and Technology, co-hosted by Parkland Foundation.

The 7th WLA Forum will take place in 2024 and the nomination for the 2024 WLA 
Prize will kick off soon.

Source: World Laureates Forum (WLA Forum)

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