The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was born on November 16, 1945. Today, it works as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues. The Organization also serves as a clearing house – that disseminates and shares information and knowledge – while helping its Member States to build their human and institutional capacities in diverse fields. UNESCO works to create the conditions for true dialogue, based upon respect for commonly shared values and the dignity of each civilization and culture.
www.unesco.org

The International Foundation for Science is a research council with international operations and the mission to build the scientific capacity of developing countries in sciences related to the sustainable management of biological and water resources.
IFS promote and nurture the research efforts of promising young science graduates, who have the potential to become leading scientists in their countries. Since 1974, it has provided support to more than 3500 IFS Grantees in some 100 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.
www.ifs.se

The aim of the Mother and Child Health International Research Network is to promote research on mother and child health in developing countries as a critical means toward sustainable development. The Network's major goal is to promote fundamental and applied research projects involving scientists and clinicians from different cultural and socio-economical environments. Its approach is to develop an international scientist-to-scientist network leading to international collaborations and mutual benefits and mutual respect.
www.mother-child.org

The Postgraduates' International Network (PI-Net) is an international association of national organizations representing postgraduates. The mission of PI-Net is to provide a global forum for postgraduates and junior researchers. The major aims are to encourage collaboration among organizations comprising or working for postgraduate students and junior researchers; to represent / promote postgraduate interests on an international level; to support member / postgraduate organizations on national / local campaigns and to establish relations with organizations with complementary aims.
www.postgrad.org

EURODOC, the council for postgraduate students and junior researchers in Europe, was founded in 2002 as an umbrella organization for young researchers’ associations in Europe. Among its aims is the representation of early stage researchers and post-docs at a European level, serving as a common platform to discuss the problems of science policy and those of young researchers in particular. EURODOC has established a number of workgroups that tackle different issues of interest for European young researchers, such as international mobility, gender equality, PhD supervision, labour conditions and future prospects. EURODOC currently participates in numerous discussions at a European level.
www.eurodoc.net

The Marie Curie Fellowship Association (MCFA) unites more than 3,000 scientists who have been awarded a Marie Curie fellowship or other EU mobility research-training grant. Created in 1996 at the initiative of the European Commission, it is today independent from the EC, but there are still close links and many common interests. The MCFA has national subgroups in many different countries, offering practical advice to Marie Curie fellows past and present. As a network of scientists at different career stages, it provides a valuable source of information for its members' career development. It contributes to debates on science policy questions and actively participates in events on European science and the European Research Area.
www.mariecurie.org

The Network of Youth Excellence was established with the participation of numerous countries to give scientific research practice to talented high school students. The Network aims to promote cooperation among existing scientific research training projects for talented high school students, to better the existing projects by exchanging their experiences and outlining successful organizational and fundraising tactics, and to help the initiation of scientific research training projects in countries where they currently do not exist.
www.kutdiak.hu/en/

The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has 710 members, including 600 from 68 developing countries. Through a series of programmes, including annual TWAS Prizes and the provision of research grants, the Academy aims to recognize, support and promote scientific excellence in the South.* Associateship and fellowship schemes allow South-South scientific collaboration, and a Visiting Scientist programme permits scientists from the North to visit institutions in the South on a regular basis. For additional information on these and other TWAS programmes you may contact info@twas.org. [*South stands for developing countries in the text.]
www.twas.org

LEAD is an international non-profit organization with a fast growing network of 1400 leaders in more than 80 countries. The shared mission is to inspire leadership for a sustainable world by searching worldwide for outstanding people, developing their leadership potential through innovative training programs and working with them to mobilize others to make a real difference to the future of this planet. LEAD.s training and action network is coordinated through an international secretariat based at Imperial College London, but there are fourteen LEAD Member Program offices across the world.
www.lead.org

The International Council for Science (ICSU), founded in 1931, aims at strengthening international science for the benefit of society by mobilizing the knowledge and resources of the international science community to: 1. Identify and address major issues of importance to science and society. 2. Facilitate interaction amongst scientists across all disciplines and from all countries. 3. Promote the participation of all scientists.regardless of race, citizenship, language, political stance, or gender.in the international scientific endeavour. 4. Provide independent, authoritative advice to stimulate constructive dialogue between the scientific community and governments, civil society, and the private sector.
www.icsu.org

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
www.hfsp.org

The International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) represents 30 000 physics students up to Ph.D. level in 40 countries from all over the world. IAPS aims at encouraging physics students in their academic and professional work in an international context, for example by organising conferences, summer schools and scientific trips. IAPS also functions as the voice of physics students in the international physics community.
www.iaps.info

The Southeast European Era-Net (SEE-ERA.NET) is a networking project aimed at integrating EU member states and Southeast European countries in the European Research Area by linking research activities within existing national, bilateral and regional RTD programmes.
http://www.see-era.net