Every year, the Academy collaborates with other agencies to organize public events. Among the Academy's partners are, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), the International Centre for African Music, University of Ghana, Legon and the Goethe-Institut.

Since 1993, the FES has collaborated with the Academy to organize symposia in mid June, on topical issues. Unlike other public events, most of the speakers on the GAAS/FES platform come from outside the Academy. The three-day public forum has now been institutionalized as an annual event. The 2003 GAAS/FES public forum addressed the theme: 'The Judiciary and the Fourth Republic'. In 2004, the forum addressed the broad theme: the Economy, Productivity and Income Levels. The theme for the joint GAAS/FES Public forum in 2005 was 'Reconciling the Nation'.

LIST OF MAJOR COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE ACADEMY AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FROM I992 TO DATE

Collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)

The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences started working closely with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in 1992. The Academy found FES an appropriate partner to work with. The Foundation has as one of its aims, the promotion and strengthening of democracy and social justice and the Academy, the promotion and dissemination of knowledge.
The collaboration, which involves the organization of lectures and symposia, has since 1993, taken place in June each year without any interruption. Many of these lectures have been organized and the proceedings published with funding from the foundation. These include the following publications.

• Making Democracy Work in the Fourth Republic (1993)
• Problems and Prospects of Democratic Governance in Africa (1996)
• Six Years of Constitutional Rule in Ghana (1999)
• Corruption and Development in Africa (2002)

FES supported the Academy's 1993 and 1994 Anniversary Celebrations as well as the publication of the proceedings under the themes:

• The Culture of Dependency (1995)
• Conflicts in Africa (1995)

In 2002 FES graciously supported the publication of the J.B. Danquah Memorial Lectures, the thirty-fifth in the series, delivered by Nana Dr. S.K.B. Asante under the theme:

• Reflections on the Constitution, Law and Development (2002)

The FES is also collaborating with the Academy in preparing towards a joint policy conference on 'Tertiary Education and the Job Market' in 2006.

Collaboration with the Canadian High Commission in Ghana

In the early 1990's, the Canadian High Commission in Accra, in collaboration with the Academy, published seven outstanding Proceedings of the Academy under the following titles:

1. Human Rights and the Democratic Process(1980)
2. National Development: Problems, Solutions, Strategies (1981)
3. The Place of Learning in National Life (1984)
4. Education, Human Values and Nation Building (1986)
5. The Future of Our Cities (1989)
6. Accountability in National Life (1990)
7. Ghana in the Year 2000 (1991)

Pro-Ghana Foundation, Vaduz, Switzerland

In response to a request from the Pro-Ghana Foundation in March 1999, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences agreed to administer the Margaret Opferkuch Award for technological innovation in the cocoa industry in Ghana.

Particular reference was made in the request to the areas of production, transportation, processing and marketing of cocoa. The award was to go to the individual or organization which in any given year made significant contribution to the development and improvement of the cocoa industry in the fields of research, improved cultural practices and/or extension services, marketing or the economics of the cocoa industry in Ghana. In the absence of any such contribution in any year, the award was to go to the best female science student entering a university in Ghana.

InterAcademy Panel Workshop on Capacity Building, 16th - 18th May, 2001 Trieste, Italy

Prof. S. Ofosu-Amaah, former Vice President, Science, of the Academy represented the Academy at the Trieste workshop at which African Academies were clearly seen to be facing problems of finance and capacity to operate effectively. The Northern Academies therefore pledged to help the Third World Academies with computers, Internet services, books and other logistics.

Collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Accra.

The Academy in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Accra hosted a renowned Dutch Historian Prof. J.L. Wesselling in February 2002. Prof. Wesselling delivered lectures at the Department of History, and the Institute of African Studies, both in the University of Ghana, Legon, in commemoration of 300 years of Netherlands-Ghana relationship.

Visit to the US National Academies of Science in Washington D.C. ,
1 - 11 April, 2003

GAAS/ CDD/FES Collaboration

The Academy in collaboration with the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development(CDD) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) organized a 3-day Colloquium on "Towards Smooth Democratic Transitions in Ghana" from 27th - 29th October 2003.

GAAS /WORLD BANK COLLOQUIUM ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

The Academy and the World Bank Inspection Panel jointly organized the above programme on 14th November 2003 at the Accra International Conference Centre.

InterAcademy Panel (IAP) Conference and General Assembly, Mexico City,
1st to 5th December, 2003

Prof. Marian Ewurama Addy; Honorary Treasurer and Member of the Council of the Academy was also at the IAP Conference in Mexico City from 1st to 5th December 2003 under the theme, Science for Society.

Visit by the US National Academies of Science, 1 - 4 September 2004 The Academy hosted a three-member delegation from the US National Academies. The purpose of the visit was to assess the eligibility of the Academy for sustained collaborative work and assistance on the interface between scientific research and national policy. While in the country, the delegation held a series of meetingswith some strategic scientific and health institutions and ministries, including one with the Minister of state in-charge-of Tertiary Education, Hon. Elizabeth Ohene. The delegation comprised David Satcher, 16th Surgeon general of the United States of America, Princeton Lyman, a former US Ambassador to Nigeria and to South Africa and Clara Cohen, Programme Officer at the International Affairs Office of the US National Academies.

First Annual International Conference of the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) November 6 - 10 2005, Nairobi, Kenya