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2019 Membership Call Closed
Our 2019 call for new members is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied, and thank you to everyone who helped circulate our call for new members. Through this year’s efforts, we received a record amount of applications.
The review and selection process will now begin, and all applicants will be notified of the outcome in January 2020.
GYA/Oxford workshop imparts practical skills to At-risk scholars
The GYA At-Risk Scholars Initiative held an Academic Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Workshop, hosted by Wolfson College, University of Oxford, from 5-7 September.
The workshop aimed to empower outstanding at-risk or displaced researchers to excel in their new higher education environments, by imparting practical skills, and addressing opportunities within and outside of academia.
Read more here.
GYA members meet Japanese Prime Minister
GYA members from Japan Wataru Iwasaki and Yoko Shimpuku met the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, and the Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Mr Takuya Hirai, to report the recommendations from the G7 Academies Meeting held in Paris in March 2019.
Wataru and Yoko, representing early-career researchers, were assigned to their roles by the Science Council of Japan (SCJ).
Read more here.
News
12 September 2019
GYA members contribute to United Nations Global Sustainable Development Report 2019
12 September 2019GYA Bio2Bio Co-Lead participates in discussions at Eastern Economic Forum
10 September 2019GYA Research Leadership Workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford
29 August 2019New GYA Incubator & new working group projects
Upcoming Events
Leopoldina Annual Meeting
20/09/2019 - 21/09/2019, All Day Halle, Halle,Tsukuba Conference
02/10/2019 - 04/10/2019, All Day Tsukuba, Tsukuba,Volkswagen Stiftung – Interdisciplinarity Revisited
03/10/2019 - 04/10/2019, All Day Berlin, Berlin,Science and Technology in Society Forum
05/10/2019 - 08/10/2019, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto,