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Science Council Of Asia

25 April 2003 | EN

The SCA was created in 2000 through the reorganisation of the annual Asian Conference on Scientific Cooperation (ACSC), hosted since 1993 by the Science Council of Japan. The conference helps promote collaboration between sceintists in Asia. There are ten council member nations: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.

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