Scientists from China and the UK convened in Beijing for a seminar discussing the report on scientific support for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on June 29th. The event, organized by the International Panel of Mesoscience (IPM), focused on the progress of mesoscience and its role in advancing the SDGs.During the seminar, experts engaged in thorough discussions on how the principles of mesoscience can be utilized to analyze the multi-level complexities within the United Nations Sustain

On 23 November, the 2023 East Lake • Mesoscience Forum was held at the East Lake International Centre in Chaoyang District, Beijing. The forum was hosted by the International Mesoscience Panel (IPM), organized by the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPE-CAS), the National Key Laboratory of Mesoscience and Engineering, and the Chinese Society of Particuology, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Shanghai JiDing Information Technology Company.

In recent years, paradigm shift in science gradually becomes a hot topic in the scientific community. Meanwhile, tackling global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, and serious diseases is also quite urgent.However, these two aspects are often touched separately. For the former, discussions focus on general trends, and for the latter, more considerations are given to detailed issues. Unification of the two aspects could propel the two aspects in a synergistic way, and breakthroughs might be made more efficiently. The key is to find the bridge.

Mesoscience proposes that complexity arises from an inevitable compromise between competing factors, such as different mechanisms striving for dominance. Mesoscience bridges bottom-up and top-down approaches through multi-objective optimisation under constraints.

Over 30 top scientists from the USA, UK, Australia, China, et al. are teaming up in Beijing for a three-day meeting to focus on the future development and application of Mesoscience.

Mesoscience places emphasis on mesoscale, a scale between the micro- and macro-scale, to identify spatiotemporal complex structures of complex systems that are widely investigated by scientists.

Scientists attending a latest mesoscience conference, The Preparatory Meeting of the International Panel of Mesoscience, call for more people to engage in the study, and to verify its generality with more case studies.