Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting: Travel documents handed over to Mauritian nominee

Air tickets, travel documents and participation fee were handed over to the Mauritian nominee of the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, Dr Ramisha Veeren, at the MITD House, Phoenix in presence of the Minister of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research, Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun.

In her address, Minister Dookun-Luchoomun congratulated the nominee for her dedication and hard work that has culminated in this extraordinary opportunity and privilege of participating in this international platform. She underlined that this high level meeting will contribute to make Mauritius more visible in the field of academics as well as promote the country as an education hub of high quality. The Minister highlighted that such endeavours are pivotal to uplift the education sector of Mauritius and cited Dr Veeren as a vivid example that academics in Mauritius are indeed engaging in research. The Education Minister urged Dr Veeren to be a role model by inspiring young Mauritian students to engage in scientific learning and research.

Dr Ravisha Veeren underlined that participating in this international platform is an opportunity to acquire more knowledge about the field of chemistry and to share what Mauritius has to give in the field of science. To be on that platform will provide evidence of the existence of Mauritius as a research country, she underscored.

Meeting 2017

The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, set up in 1951, aims at bringing together young scientists from all over the world to meet and interact with Nobel Laureates. This year’s meeting is scheduled from 25 to 30 June 2017 in Germany, on the theme of ‘Chemistry’.

The objective of the Meeting is to provide a platform for close interaction between the young researchers and Nobel Laureates and for the transfer of knowledge between scientists of different generations, cultures and disciplines. The scientific programme of each Lindau Meeting is based on the principle of dialogue. The different sessions including lectures, discussions, master classes and panel discussions are designed to activate the exchange of ideas and experience among the participants.

This year’s meeting will bring together some 400 international young scientists from 76 countries. The opportunity to join the annual gathering of Nobel Laureates at Lindau is provided exclusively to outstanding young scientists – undergraduates, PhD students, and post-doc researchers. In order to participate in the meeting, they have to pass a multi-step application and selection process.