2025 Letten Prize call for applications Are you a young researcher working within the fields of health, development or environment in any aspect of human life? Then apply to the Letten Prize, which is open to researchers under the age…
The GYA’s Science and Education for Youth Working Group (WG) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) WG have launched a series of talks and training sessions aiming to put SDGs into practice and raise awareness about them within higher education…
Earlier in 2024, the GYA working group on Science Advice, co-led by Jovana Milic (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and Laura Zimmermann (University of Georgia, United States), was part of a 3-months project led by the Mauritius Academy of Science and…
The GYA was represented at the World Health Summit 2024 (WHS) in Berlin, Germany, by GYA member Thao Thi Phuong Nguyen (Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam) and alumni Isil Kurnaz (Gebze Technical University, Turkey) and Stefan Kohler (Heidelberg University, Germany). According…
At the end of September 2024, the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) was celebrating its 10th anniversary at its mid-year meeting. As part of this three-day INYAS Meeting, the Young Academies from Asia also met. This hybrid networking…
Workshop on the U.S. National Climate Assessment to Empower Communities The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the NASEM New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are organising a workshop on leveraging the National Climate Assessment (NCA)…
The 2024-25 GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant has been awarded to Alexia Nunez-Parra (Universidad de Chile), Nadia De León Sautú, (Institute of Scientific Research and High Technology Services, Panama), Alma Cristal Hernández Mondragón (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) and Lorena Michelle…
A two-part online workshop “Inclusive Leadership for Women in Science” was held earlier this month, organized by the GYA Women in Science working group, and designed in partnership with the facilitation team at Inclusive Innovation. The workshops built on past…
The Fifth Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Fifth Global Climate and SDG Synergy Conference) took place in September 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event brought together representatives…
Mohammad Hosseini (Northwestern University, United States) represented the GYA and International Science Council (ISC) delegation attending the Summit of the Future Action Days in the United Nations headquarters in New York City. This event provided “an opportunity for broad engagement…
In the leadup to United Nations Action Day of the Summit of the Future, the GYA was invited to join the United Nations Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) at UN Headquarters for its inaugural in-person retreat in September 2024. Co-Chair…
The GYA’s At-Risk Scholars Initiative, in cooperation with the Young Academy of Scotland, the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara), and the UK Young Academy, held the fifth professional development workshop for at-risk scholars in September at Wolfson College, University of…