Young Scientist Ambassador Programme

Aims and Objectives

The GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) promotes the efforts by GYA members to bridge the international scientific gap by facilitating cultural, scientific, intellectual, or educational interactions. The ambassadorships are non-traditional; that is, interactions occur between two countries that are at different stages of scientific development, or between two countries that historically have had minimal scientific contact. The YSAP organises and funds Ambassadorships, wherein GYA members travel between developed and developing countries, transferring expertise and knowledge and otherwise increasing engagement between nations of different scientific development.

Progress

Virtual YSAP Missions 2020

After a call to the GYA membership in August, the group has chosen two proposals for online missions in 2020. Pradeep Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Filippo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) will collaborate to introduce their students to advanced molecular mechanics simulation techniques. Their YSAP mission will include a virtual tour of both their labs. Chandra Shekhar Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India) and David Fernandez Rivas (University of Twente, Netherlands) will conduct a tutorial and experiment with ultrasound jointly with both their teams.

General Information

The YSAP accomplishes its objectives by (1) serving as a medium to connect various GYA members who might have common interests and (2) locating money or funding opportunities to pay for the international activities. The YSAP currently operates with a budget from the GYA. The amounts are not comprehensive for a given Ambassador, but serve as financial assistance to complement other funds available for the Ambassadorships.

Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP)

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For an overview of YSAP, please watch Adewale Adewuyi (Nigeria) and John Malone (USA) present an introduction of the programme.

WG YSAP

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For a history of YSAP, please watch founder Steve Miller (USA) present the initial beginnings and early missions funded by this programme.

Outcomes

The primary outcomes of the Ambassadorships are Mission Reports posted here on the YSAP website. As of November 2019, there have been 24 funded YSAP Missions, and six volunteer outreach activities:

Funded Missions

2019

# 24 Lahcen El Youssfi visits Chile

#23 Flávia Pires visits Argentina

#22 Mahesh Kumar visits Israel

# 21 Koen Vermeir visits Romania

2018

#20 Mirabbos Hojamberdiev visits India

#19 Thomas Edison dela Cruz visits Serbia

#18 Science Caravan visits Cambodia

2017

#17 Mirabbos Hojamberdiev visits Tanzania