The Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP), the High-Level Advisory Group that advised the European Commission on how to develop Open Science between 2016 and 2020, has produced its final report, “Progress on Open Science: Towards a Shared Research Knowledge System”…
Call for New Voices in Global Health at the World Health Summit 2020 The GYA is looking for 4–6 contributions from its members, and members of National Young Academies (NYAs), on “Perspectives and responses of young scientists to the coronavirus…
On 27 May 2020, the Young Academy Finland (YAF) and the Belgian Young Academy co-organised a webinar on “The Future of Independent Science Advice in the EU Ecosystem: How to make sure that research synthesis reports are read?”. The event…
The first 29 members for the Swiss Young Academy have now been selected. The Swiss Young Academy was established in December 2019. They are now organising a virtual meeting of their members, where they will also elect their co-chairs. The…
The GYA is coordinating a new global working group on Open Science, comprising members from 25 National Young Academies (NYAs) from around the globe, as well as members from the GYA’s long-standing working group on Open Science. Back in August…
The European Commission is setting up its own free Open Access publishing platform for scientific articles. The platform will be a peer-reviewed publishing service to support beneficiaries of Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and related funding schemes to meet the European…
On the occasion of the international women’s day 2020, the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS) organised a panel discussion on “Women and Science: What Future for Cameroon?” CAYS has as one of its mandates to promote research as a…
In February, GYA Co-Chair Koen Vermeir (CNRS, France), who used to co-lead the working group on Open Science, delivered the opening keynote speech at the meeting on “Changing publication practices – From predatory to Plan S” organized by the Belgian…
In December 2019, GYA alumnus Javier García-Martinez (University of Alicante, Spain) in his role as the President of the Young Academy of Spain took part in the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
GYA Executive Committee member Yoko Shimpuku (Kyoto University, Japan) addressed the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly at United Nations Headquarters on 11 February 2020. Yoko introduced her research on midwifery education in Tanzania, the…
The educational board game Expedition Mundus teaches 12-year olds to think like a scientist. It has been used by many Young Academies in the past few years, and has been translated into several languages. Now, a more digital version, serving…
The Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS) was established in 2019, with the kind support of the Cameroon Academy of Science (CAS). As their very first activity, CAYS organised an international conference on “Young Scientists: Mainspring of Development and Innovation…