Members from the GYA Science Advice working group co-organised an Evidence and Policy Summer School together with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the International Network for Government Science Advice...
The Global Young Academy has now published the report of the 8th International Conference of Young Scientists & GYA Annual General Meeting in Pattaya, Thailand on ‘Forever Young? Sustainable and healthy longevity through science and technology’. Please download the full...
Members from the GYA working group on Do-it-yourself Biology will participate in the second CILAC Forum (Latin America and Caribbean Open Science Forum) in Panama in October 2018, by organising a panel session on the “Do-it-yourself biology movement in Latin...
In September 2018, an IAP / EASAC workshop at the Leopoldina in Halle, Germany, addressed how academies can support the implementation of the UN SDGs. Representatives from 21 EASAC (European Academies’ Science Advisory Council) member academies and 4 National Young...
The Bio2Bio working group held a panel discussion at the World Social Science Forum in Fukuoka, Japan on 25 September titled “Biodiversity and biomedicine: sustainability for human health”. This event was organised with support from the National Science and Technology...
The Nigerian Young Academy has begun a campaign against plagiarism among researchers in the country by organising workshops to create awareness on the dangers of this academic pitfall. Some of the initial efforts on this were captured by science journalist...
This year’s GYA Executive Committee in-person meeting took place in Halle, Germany from 23 to 27 September. In addition to a team-building workshop on the 24th, EC members met among themselves for two days at the Leopoldina to discuss governance...
Indian legal scholar Tarunabh Khaitan has been awarded the inaugural Letten Prize for research on global development challenges. The prize itself is a novel initiative by the Young Academy of Norway and the Letten Foundation. The initiative seeks explicitly to...
GYA alumni Eva Alisic (Australia) and Hans Hilgenkamp (NL) have written an editorial in Science about New Voices, the new young academy-like organisation in the United States. The piece on “New voices, at last” welcomes the launch of the “New...
From 13-14 August, an IAP / AASSA workshop addressed how academies can support implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Representatives from 14 of the 30 AASSA (Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia) member national academies...
Following a selection procedure by the GYA internal review committee, the 2018-19 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant was awarded to Suzanne Bouclin (Canada) and Binyam Sisay Mendisu (Ethiopia) for the research project proposal: Can Digital Storytelling be used as a Tool...
The Global State of Young Scientists Africa (GloSYS Africa) project was recently featured in an expose that appeared in The Conversation. The article presents the project’s initial findings, which point to a lack of mentoring, resources and funding as key...
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