Short interview with Sheryl Hendriks, Head of Department, University of Pretoria, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development.

This year's Forum focuses on the ethical problems scientists face and on the responsibility of researchers for the consequences of their scientific results. The organisers wish to consider these important issues in a broad perspective. "When talking about freedom of research we must address questions like: How to share resources between basic research and innovation? How can science funding be made more transparent and just? Why is it so crucial for scientists to take part in the policy making…

Paris, 18 November—This year’s UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation will be awarded to the Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in recognition of its socially-just environmental conservation and sustainable development activities, following the recommendation of the international jury of the prize. The award ceremony will be held in Budapest, Hungary, on 20 November during the forthcoming World Science Forum.

Paris, 17 November—UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay will award the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of science to Karl Kruszelnicki (Australia) on 20 November, at the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary.

What ethical problems must researchers face at the beginning of the 21st century? This is one of the central questions of the 2019 World Science Forum (WSF), which will be hosted again in Budapest after the 2017 meeting in Jordan. The forum is organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), whose president, László Lovász, says in his interview given to mta.hu that although gaining knew knowledge is the task of researchers, what this knowledge is used for is the common responsibility of…

An interactive performance by artists and scientists that investigates the relationship between humans and nature, and aims to reveal robust measures for a sustainable existence, will premiere at the World Science Forum on 22 November 2019.