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Academy Relations The Royal Society is the UK National Academy of Science and represents UK science at home and overseas. For many years the Society has fostered mutually beneficial links with numerous science academies and organisations in the UK and throughout the World. The Society was one of the founding members of the International Council for Science (ICSU), whose aims are to facilitate international co-operation in scientific work and promote the formation of international unions in different branches of science. The Society plays an active part in the European Science Foundation (ESF), whose 65 member organisations fund a broad range of research. The ESF provides a unique mechanism by which such organisations and individual scientists can be brought together to work on a range of interdisciplinary and international research programmes. The ESF also provides UK organisations with the opportunity to participate in European science policy debate due to its strong links with the European Commission and other policy formers. The Society maintains close relations with numerous other organisations and networks that have a prime role in promoting scientific excellence around the world. These include the All European Academies (ALLEA), Academia Europea. Euroscience, the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) which facilitates collaboration among over 80 national academies of science, and UNESCO. The Society holds meetings with other academies including the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences and contributes to meetings of the National Academies Policy Analysis Group, set up to deal with multidisciplinary policy issues. The 1990s has been the UN international decade for natural disaster reduction - IDNDR. The Royal Society has been active throughout the decade, with its final contribution being a joint meeting with the Royal Academy of Engineering on 27-29 October 1999 to review how Science, Technology and Engineering have contributed towards the mitigation of the devastating effects of natural disasters. The papers and discussion sessions also considered how best to capitalise on the experiences of this International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction to improve the effectiveness of these contributions in future.
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