The 2023 call for applications for the GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant is now open! Applications from GYA Members should be submitted by 28 June 2023. This grant scheme, introduced at the GYA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM), seeks to…
Global Young Academy member Stella Tsani (University of Ioannina, Greece) participated in the United Nations 2023 Water Conference as part of the International Science Council Delegation and Community at the conference. Stella contributed to the Policy Brief: UN 2023 Water…
The InterAcademy Partnership Science Education Programme Working Group held a two-day meeting in March 2023 in Rabat, Morocco, to discuss the latest trends and challenges in science education. The meeting was attended by members of the Global Council and invited…
As part of the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA) Annual Spring Conference held at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, GYA alumna and former EC member Maral Dadvar (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) was an invited panelist for the public…
GYA Executive Committee (EC) member Filippo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and GYA alumnus Wataru Iwasaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) provided a voice for early- and mid-career researchers during the G-Science Academy (S7) International Symposium, held in Tokyo, Japan in…
The GYA’s Open Science working group is organising Open Science First Fridays – a series of discussions on current topics impacting Open Science, ranging from ChatGPT to Open Science policies on every first Friday of the month. The lectures feature…
When it became clear that the GYA’s 2022 Annual General Meeting and International Conference of Young Scientists would have to be a hybrid meeting – in Fukuoka, Japan, but with most GYA members taking part online – the GYA decided…
Under the leadership of Menattallah Elserafy (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) the 53-member Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) has finalised the selection of 41 new members to join the GYA in June 2023 for a…
The GYA Strategic Project The Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) launched a new report at an online event with contributions from the lead author, strategic project co-leads, distinguished professors and UNESCO in LAC. See the full programme of the…
The GYA Women in Science Group conducted a survey in 2021 among GYA members on discrimination and harassment at their workplace, led by GYA member Jonas Radl (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) and GYA alumna Shaheen Motala-Timol (Tertiary Education…
In December 2022, more than 15 GYA members and alumni served as panelists and speakers as scientists from around the world gathered at the World Science Forum (WSF) in Cape Town, South Africa, to focus on the social and economic…
A second joint event by the GYA with ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, and STM Publishers took place in November 2022, and looked at ‘IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) in scholarly peer-review’. A workshop…