The aim of the DAAD Alumni International Conference is to throw light on the challenges young African scholars are facing and to draw a roadmap towards overcoming these challenges and thus living up to their full potential. This year’s conference...
The deadline has been extended: Submissions are now accepted until 17 April 2019. In February, the GYA was formally invited to join the Steering Committee of the World Science Forum (WSF). To ensure continuity, it was decided that one of...
GYA member and DIY Biology working group co-lead Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk (Australia) recently acted as a co-lead author for the section on “Synthetic Biology: Re-engineering the environment” in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Frontiers publication on “Emerging Issues of Environmental...
On 22 February 2019, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved the creation of the Young Academy of Spain, an institution that will represent young scientists and promote new approaches to solve problems of national and international importance. GYA alumni Javier...
Currently, there are over 250 international migrants and close to 70 million refugees, asylum seekers and displaced people around the world. This makes the topic of integration of people who are settling in a new country and environment of crucial...
The Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) promotes the efforts of GYA members to build new collaborative research capacity between nations that historically have had minimal scientific contact. We are excited to announce our 2019 call for new proposal submissions. This year...
The annual ‘Science meets Parliaments’ conference took place on 6 and 7 February 2019 at the European Parliament in Brussels. This event, organized by the European Parliament and the EU Science hub (Joint Research Center, JRC), gathered policy-makers, scientists and...
Under the leadership of Maral Dadvar the 46 members of the selection committee have selected 43 new members to join the GYA in late April 2019 for a tenure of five years. The applications have been evaluated by at least...
Open Science working group member Koen Vermeir (France) attended the Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference on ‘Bringing Value in Academic Publishing: Practical Solutions for Thriving in a Changing Environment‘ in Berlin, Germany, in January 2019. He talked about how publishers...
On 9 January 2019 the symposium titled ‘Present and Future of Science in Chile’ was held in Santiago, Chile. The event, sponsored by the Embassy of Canada in Chile and the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, brought together more than 200...
It is not common to hold a meeting in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, but the Responsible Research and Innovation Networking Globally (RRING ) project did. The RRING project aims to bring Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Dmitry Mendeleev discovering the Periodic System, and has thus been proclaimed the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” (IYPT2019). GYA alumni Javier Garcia-Martinez (Spain), a member of the Executive Board...
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