World Science Forum is an international conference series on global science policy. Since 2003, it is being organized biannually in Budapest, Hungary.
World Science Forum or WSF traces back its origin to the first World Conference on Science, organised by UNESCO and ICSU and held in Budapest in 1999. The first WSF was organised in 2003, followed by the second in 2005 and the third in 2007. The fourth WSF was held from 5 through 7 November 2009 in Budapest, Hungary, focusing on "Knowledge and future". The fifth World Science Forum was heln between 17 and 19 November 2011 in Budapest, it focused on "The changing landscape of science".
The World Science Forum aims at being the "Davos of Science" and achieving the same global strategic impact on science and science policy as the World Economic Forum does it in the field of global economic policy.
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