Neutral platform for debate of policy issues, Discussions and workshops on relevant issues, Support service to Learned and Professional Societies, Foundation Future Leaders Programme for mid-career professionals, Podcast exploring links between science & technology and policy
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The Foundation for Science and Technology is a UK charity, providing an impartial platform for debate of policy issues that have a science, research, technology or innovation element. Established in 1977, the Foundation brings together Parliamentarians, civil servants, industrialists, researchers, learned societies, charities and others. It convenes discussion events and round tables, publishes a journal three times per year and regular blogs, and hosts a weekly podcast. It also organises the Foundation Future Leaders Programme, supporting the next generation of professionals from universities, industry and the civil service. In addition, the Foundation provides guidance on governance issues to Professional and Learned Societies.
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The Foundation Future Leaders Programme brings together a cohort of mid-career professionals drawn from universities, industry and the civil service to develop links and further their understanding of how science and research are conducted, and how they feed into the policy process.
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The Foundation organises events on key topics in science, research, technology or innovation, bringing together Parliamentarians, civil servants, industrialists, researchers, learned societies, charities and others.
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The FST Journal is published three times per year, with articles based on the main evening events held by the Foundation. The Journal is distributed to over 1500 senior influencers in Government, Parliament, industry and the research community, as well as being published online.
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The Foundation for Science and Technology provides guidance to Learned and Professional Societies in the area of administration and governance, with technical guidance notes and a regular newsletter.
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May 21, 2025 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Amongst the huge number of separate activities needed to reach net zero, decarbonising the built environment is one of the most challenging, particularly domestic homes - with millions of separate owners, and with retrofit a much bigger part of the problem than new build. With a policy backdrop of the government's Warm Homes Plan, how can social science and engineering contribute to solving this huge challenge?
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May 29, 2025 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
The UK has provided a succession of increasingly powerful high-performance computing facilities for UK researchers for many years. Do recent developments in AI change what researchers might need in terms of high performance computing? What are the implications of any future provision of exascale computing of expected developments in quantum computing? And how can the environmental impact of exascale computing be reduced? As decisions on new investments in high performance computing come due, these are some of the issues we hope to explore in this event being organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This event is being held in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, which is the home of UK national high performance computing research systems such as ARCHER2, Cirrus and DiRAC-Tursa.
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April 30, 2025 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
The UK science community have played a central role in space science missions over several decades, and the UK was a founder member of the European Space Agency (ESA), which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. What has been the scientific impact of the UK's leading role in space science missions over the last decades? And how has our expertise in space science fed through to the UK's dynamic and growing space industry sector?
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