COST Action Fp1005 "Fibre suspension flow modelling: a key for innovation and competitiveness in the pulp & paper industry" is an Action of the COST Programme (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) funded in the period 07/2011 - 06/2015 by the European Science Foundation , allowing coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level.
The objective is to promote and disseminate validated computer modelling and simulation techniques in papermaking indiustry.The Action will offer industry a forum to solve test cases relevant to industry and to compare simulated results to experiments. Together simulations and experiments will result in more reliable simulation tools to industry.

The general condition of post-earthquake Haiti could be a metaphor for the state of science in that country. With an eye to nurturing basic sciences in Haiti, ICTP recently held a school on seismology from 15 to 28 January 2012, organized by Karim Aoudia, an earthquake expert in ICTP's Earth System Physics group, two-week school offered an intensive course on the full spectrum of earthquake sciences, from physics to risk reduction.

The select gathering, organized by the 'US-DPRK [United States - Democratic People's Republic of Korea] Scientific Engagement Consortium', met at the Bellagio Centre in northern Italy for three days from April 16-18 to discuss "Advancing US-DPRK Relations through Science Engagement and Cooperation". TWAS already makes a concrete contribution to improving the quality and reach of scientific research in DPR Korea.

Under the present call, the CERES Programme will award up to 14 fellowships to eligible, post-doctoral researchers. Applicants are encouraged to contact the PI/Group Leader of their choice in the Host Institutions, to obtain prior agreement on their proposed research projects. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2012.

In the context of the Research Fellowship Programme (CERES), the Central European Initiative (CEI) has just launched a Call for Applications (open until 30 April) offering 4 fellowships to post-doc researchers from CEI Member States. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to spend 12 months hosted by one of the 5 Trieste-based centres of excellence composing the CERES partnership: the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the Sincrotrone S.C.p.A., the Cluster in Biomedicine (CBM) and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). The CERES project is co-funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) – Marie Curie Actions and represents an excellent example of synergy-against-fragmentation. Indeed, the CEI deems the creation of a European-wide open space for knowledge and technologies necessary to promote and fully exploit transnational synergies and technologies.

Since 1983 TWAS has been highly effective in supporting South-South science collaborations and programmes and has developed a network that covers a large part of the science community in the developing world.  TWAS is now turning to the North for additional collaboration and support, recognizing that developing countries' needs are global needs.

TRIESTE, 29/02/12 - The research, titled "Collaboration in Social Networks" and appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Online Early Edition (20 February 2012), was carried out by ICTP physicist Matteo Marsili of the Centre's Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics section, along with Luca Dall'Asta of the Politecnico di Torino and Paolo Pin of the Università degli Studi di Siena.