GYA, in partnership with the Young Academy of Japan, organised a science leadership workshop focusing on science advice capacity building for young scientists. It took place in Tokyo, Japan, on 5 November 2018 – prior to the 3rd biennial conference…
On 19 October 2018, the official platform for young scientists in the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region, the ASEAN Young Scientists Network was officially launched in conjunction with the 75th ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology Meeting…
2018 has seen a concerted effort by young and senior academicians to engage with the UN Regional Commissions and with each other on the implementation of the UN SDGs. In doing so, they have identified a wide range of practicable…
On 27 September 2018, Austria’s Young Academy celebrated its tenth anniversary with current and former members at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) in Vienna. Established in 2008 as the “Junge Kurie”, as it was then known, the Young Academy…
Publicly funded research output should neither be hidden behind paywalls nor be a ‘pay-to-publish’ game. This is one of the core tenets of the Position Statement titled ‘Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Plan S – The View of Young Academies’,…
The Sri Lanka Academy of Young Scientists (SLAYS), together with the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (NSF) and in collaboration with the Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI), co-organised the 2nd SLAYS Open Forum on “Research for…
Members from the GYA Science Advice working group co-organised an Evidence and Policy Summer School together with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the International Network for Government Science Advice…
In September 2018, an IAP / EASAC workshop at the Leopoldina in Halle, Germany, addressed how academies can support the implementation of the UN SDGs. Representatives from 21 EASAC (European Academies’ Science Advisory Council) member academies and 4 National Young…
Indian legal scholar Tarunabh Khaitan has been awarded the inaugural Letten Prize for research on global development challenges. The prize itself is a novel initiative by the Young Academy of Norway and the Letten Foundation. The initiative seeks explicitly to…
GYA alumni Eva Alisic (Australia) and Hans Hilgenkamp (NL) have written an editorial in Science about New Voices, the new young academy-like organisation in the United States. The piece on “New voices, at last” welcomes the launch of the “New…
From 13-14 August, an IAP / AASSA workshop addressed how academies can support implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Representatives from 14 of the 30 AASSA (Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia) member national academies…
The Burundi Council of Young Scientists, the Ghana Young Academy, the Nigerian Young Academy and the South African Young Academy of Science, together with the senior science academies in Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan, have been selected for the InterAcademy Partnership’s…