Activities
The Council convenes and mobilizes the international scientific community on issues of major scientific and public importance. Activities focus on three areas of work: * Stimulating and supporting international scientific research and scholarship, and communicating science that is relevant to international policy issues; * Promoting the ability of science to contribute to major issues; * Defending the free and responsible practice of science. The Council is involved in co-sponsorship of a number of international research programmes, networks and committees. The Council awards the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. The Council's present activities are guided by the Action Plan 2022-2024: Science and Society in Transition. At the heart of the Action Plan is a selection of projects and programmes that are relevant to all scientific fields and all parts of the world.Structure
The Council is governed by its Governing Board and is advised by a number of advisory bodies in thematic areas such as space, polar, climatic, and data research. It is headquartered inMembers
In 2020, the International Science Council has 135 member organizations, 40 member unions and associations, and 30 affiliated members.Member unions and associations
National members
Transnational members
* Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) * Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC) * Caribbean Academy of Sciences * Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) * Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) * Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) * Union Académique Internationale (UAI) * Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) * University of the South PacificAffiliated members
* Academy of Social Sciences (ACSS) * African Academy of Sciences (AAS) * Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) * Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) * European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI) * European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) * (FIG) * Global Young Academy (GYA) * International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) * International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) * International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) * International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) * International Commission for Optics (ICO) * International Commission on Illumination (CIE) * International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) * International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) * International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) * International Federation of Data Organizations for Social Science (IFDO) * International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) * International Foundation for Science (IFS) * International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) * International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) * International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) * International Studies Association (ISA) * International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) * International Water Association (IWA) * Pacific Science Association (PSA) * Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) * Social Science Research Council (SSRC) * The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) * Transnational Institute (TNI)GeoUnions
A subset of ISC dealing with Earth and space sciences forms the ''GeoUnions'' network: *References
External links
* {{Authority control International Science Council International organizations based in France Organizations based in Paris Scientific organizations based in France Scientific organizations established in 2018