International Foundation for Science: 50 years after !

The International Foundation for Science (IFS): 50 years after! Nighisty Ghezae, Nathalie Persson International Foundation for Science (IFS), Karlavägen 108, SE-115 26 Stockholm, Sweden This year, IFS will reach a half century of supporting research grant finance, research and communications skills development, science literacy, agenda setting, networking and collaboration. Because of its unique, bespoke and nurturing approach to supporting early-career scientists within low- and lower-middle-income countries, it is phenomenally well known and appreciated by early career scientists across the ‘global south’. The wealth of high quality applications to IFS represents an underutilised resource, whereby securing more resources / upscaling could represent an improved value for money proposition. Apart from the donor resources, which IFS secures and administers, the organisation has an experienced and highly professional multicultural secretariat, currently located in Stockholm, and a BoT th