International Science

New Zealand is a country with a relatively small but sophisticated scientific and technological community, far from the main centres of scientific and technological endeavour. It derives much benefit from international scientific and technological contacts. The Royal Society’s international liaison role is non-governmental and it establishes and maintains international and regional links with scientific and technological non-governmental organisations.

• Objectives of the International Science and Technology Unit
• Recent international science conferences sponsored by the Royal Society 
  
• Ministry of Research, Science and Technology international pages
• New Zealand delegates to scientific unions/New Zealanders serving on international union committees
  
• New Zealand's International Science Union contact persons  (also see below for direct links to Science Union home pages) 
• International Council for Science (ICSU) 
• New Zealand attendees at recent International Meetings 
• Royal Society International agreements
• Royal Society overview paper on New Zealand's International Science Linkages
• Practical Information on visiting New Zealand

International Scientific Unions

On behalf of New Zealand scientists and technologists the Royal Society affiliates to 32 non-governmental science and technology organisations. Apart from the International Council for Science (ICSU), they cover the following areas of science:

• Antarctic Science
• Astronomy
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Biological Sciences
• Biophysics
• Chemistry
• Crystallography
• Environment
• Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
• Geodesy and Geophysics
• Geography
• Geological Sciences
• Global Change
• Mathematics
• Microbiology
• Mineralogy
• Nutrition
• Oceanic Research
• Optics
• Palaeontology
• Physiology
• Physics
• Quaternary Research
• Radio and Space Science
• Solar and Terrestrial Physics
• Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

The Society also affiliates to the Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies (FASAS) and the Asian Crystallographic Association.