Teiichi Sato

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO)


World Conference on Science – Science for the twenty-first century – A New Commitment (1999 Budapest)

Common understanding

Proclamation on four issues:
– Science for knowledge; knowledge for progress
– Science for peace
– Science for development
– Science in society and science for society

1. Two aspects of science
    – Usefulness of science in society
    – Capacity of society for utilizing science

2. The backgrounds
    – Understandability of the rapidly progressing cutting edges
    – Lack or ignorance of foresights for harmful outcomes
    – Complicated systems
    – The phases of failures (The influence of miss judgment)

3. Some policy issues
    – The role of the researchers and policymaking
    – Enriching social understandability
    – Science education
    – University – the center of the learning

4. Professor Yosikawa’s paradox
    – Toward the knowledge society

Regional Group Meeting in the
Berlin-Brandenburg Area

Berlin | November 29, 2023
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12th Club Meeting in Japan
Nagoya | December 16, 2023
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Regional Group Meeting in
the Rhein-Ruhr Area

Essen | December 17, 2023
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Neues vom Club 02/2023
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BRIDGE-Program 2024 tendered
application deadline Jan. 8, 2024
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