Founding Session

We the undersigned, the participants to the Founding Session of the “World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research”, gathered together on the 9th and 10th of October 2004 in Rome, pledge to found the “World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research” Association, and to convene its First Assembly. The “World Congress” Association will have the

Science and scientific culture are, at least starting from the Renaissance, the most effective system of knowledge man has invented for promoting his material and moral well-being. It is impossible to imagine the economic, social and cultural development of the western world without science. Above all it is impossible to imagine a maturing of critical