Funding opportunity for researchers from developing countries – the TWAS- UNESCO Associateship Scheme. Visits to centres of excellence in the South for research collaboration will be funded. Deadline for the application is 1 December 2012! Researchers from developing countries receive...
Another Young Academy has been launched in 2012 – this time in Sri Lanka. These exciting news were forwarded to us by GYA- Member and SLAYS founder Vinitha Thadhani. The launch was supported by the National Academy of Science Sri...
World Science Academies release Report to Promote Research Integrity – GYA member Paula Kivimaa was part of the responsible Committee on Research Integrity To encourage researchers around the world to adhere to universal science values and ethical behavior, a new...
GYA- Members participated in the Young Scientists Programme of IAP and discussed the theme of the meeting – “Creating the Future Economy”. The Annual Meeting of the New Champions – also known as “Summer Davos” – 2012 was held on...
The Young Scientist Ambassador, Johan Åkerman, is both a founding member of The Young Academy of Sweden and a GYA member. Johan held an outreach activity by encouraging students and senior scientists to form a Young Academy and initiate research...
You are a young scientist and want to present your findings to a large public? Then apply for the Falling Walls Lab in Berlin and other cities worldwide. Your challenge: You only have 3 Minutes! We would like to invite...
GYA along with Swedish Young Academy and German Young Academy have joined force to raise awareness of ”The Youngacademy Movement” at Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2012 held in Dublin 11-15 July 2012. GYA (Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri, former co-chair) along with Swedish...
Aiming to excite and encourage two grades of secondary school students to pursue a science-based career, this YSAP activity entailed a non-traditional educational initiative. In September 2010, Caradee Wright was asked to be the Patron of Geography at a local...
Berlin, June 20th, 2012 – The Global Young Academy today issued a sharply worded statement calling on the scientific community to do more to promote progress towards global sustainability. “The problem is not science, it is leadership”, said GYA co-chair...
As policy makers prepare for the Rio+20 UN Earth Summit, the world’s science academies, through IAP with the contribution of GYA, highlight the global challenges of population and consumption. They call upon the world leaders to take decisive action. GYA...
GYA members Reza Afshari, Jauad El Kharraz, Rob Jenkins, Jeronimo Maze and Javier Moguerza held an outreach activity and interaction with students (ages 9-14) at Thuto-Kitso Comprehensive School in Fochville, South Africa. Around 40 school students from different classes participated...
Twenty years ago, the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development inspired a generation of young people to take up the global challenge of forging pathways to sustainability. Many of those who did are now emerging scientific leaders whose research...
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