The HOPE Meeting provides an opportunity for outstanding graduate students and early-career researchers selected from the Asia-Pacific and African regions to make significant strides as researchers who will lead scientific advancement in their respective regions. The HOPE Meeting broadens their intellectual perspectives and deepens their personal development through dialogue with distinguished predecessors, such as Nobel laureates in the natural sciences, who have advanced the frontiers of knowledge around the world, as well as through interaction with peers across diverse fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
The name HOPE carries two meanings: it refers both to promising early-career researchers whose future achievements are anticipated and to the hope for the development of scientific and technological communities in the Asia-Pacific and African regions.