The Global Young Academy is working together with Future Earth to support Early Career Researchers, Scientists and Professionals in their participation at the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021), the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability from 12…
The Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), India’s first and only recognised young scientists academy, was founded in December 2014 with a vision to promote Science education and networking among young Indian scientists. The sixth annual INYAS general body…
In December 2020, the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS) and the Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies (IMPM) organised the first edition of a scientific eloquence competition called “Three minutes to convince CAYS”. This competition was held…
In November 2020, the D. R. Congo Young Academy of Sciences (DRC-YAS) was officially launched at the Université Panafricaine de Gouvernance et Innovation (UPGI) in Kinshasa, DRC. The launching ceremony was partially supported by the German-Congolese NGO Förderverein Uni Kinshasa…
* Call for evidence 1-30 November 2020 – extended to 31 December 2020 * Survey now available in seven different languages As a vital part of its study on Combatting Academic Predatory Journals and Conferences, the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) is…
Considering the relevance and importance of foresight literacy nowadays, the GYA Science Advice Working Group have recently organised and carried out a Workshop on Strategic Foresight for Early-Career Researchers to look at exploring, anticipating, and shaping the future in a…
The Young Academy Finland (YAF) have recently finished their “Young Researchers as Knowledge Brokers” project that aimed at developing new approaches for organising the coordination of knowledge exchange on different science-policy interfaces. The project’s main findings are…
GYA Global Health working group members and members of National Young Academies and similar early to mid-career scientist networks organised and contributed to a New Voices in Global Health session about “Perspectives and responses of young scientists to the coronavirus…
The Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS) in collaboration with the GYA organised as part of their outreach programme the fifth in a series of CAYS webinars, entitled “The role of the Young Academies in the development of Africa’’. This…
The National Young Academies from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand joined hands to organise the first-ever young academy International Poster Presentation Competition 2020. In an attempt to explore collaboration between the NYAs as well as arrange something for young…
Our world is changing faster than ever before. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the global changes, growing in complexity, generate high uncertainty affecting all policy areas. For future-oriented policymaking, governments must think strategically about the future and prepare themselves…
In September, the S20 (an engagement group of the G20 established in 2017) was hosted by Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the chairmanship of Anas Alfaris. The theme for S20 in 2020 is “Foresight:…