Events: NYA

The next ALLEA General Assembly will celebrate the organisation's 30th anniversary and will take place in Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2024. The central part of the event, a public symposium themed ‘European Research Collaboration in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape: How Open Can We Be?’, will take place on 22 May from 18:30 – 20:30 CEST at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, followed by a festive reception. The event is co-hosted by the German National Academy of Sciences –...

Young Academies from all over Europe will meet in Berlin, Germany, on 21-23 May 2024. The meeting will be co-organised by the German Young Academy – Die Junge Akademie and the Global Young Academy, and will continue discussions from the 2023 meeting, including discussing best practices and areas of joint interest. The GYA will be represented by YASAS delegate and member of the 2023/24 EC Markus Prutsch (European Parliament, Austria) and YASAS Observer and co-lead of the UN SDG Incubator...

The Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies 2022 was for the first time ever organised in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership, to strengthen connections and collaborations between the young and the established science academies the world over. The meeting was hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and co-organized by IAP, the Global Young Academy (GYA), NAS, RSC, the RSC College, and the NAS New Voices Program. It was a hybrid meeting,...

More than 50 (National) Young Academies and young academy initiatives from all over the world were invited to attend the second online meeting of young academies on 30 September 2021, organised by the GYA. In 2020, the first-ever worldwide meeting of young academies saw fruitful discussions about young academy activities and the challenges they face. Best practices for member selection and engagement, as well as for how to do science advice or set up a new young academy were also exchanged. The 2021 online...

The Israel Young Academy hosted the Asian Young Academies Meeting in Jerusalem on 11-12 February 2018 with the theme: “Science and Society: Challenges and Prospects”. Representatives from both the GYA and from a number of National Young Academies participated. As can be expected from the theme, the discussions centred around the role of young scientists in general, and national young academies in particular, in impacting the wider public through science. In her address to the meeting on the second day,...

The 3rd Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 19-21 July 2017, hosted by the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) and co-organised by the Global Young Academy (GYA). The meeting was a great opportunity for representatives from NYAs and similar bodies to exchange ideas and expertise, discuss successful Young Academy activities and think about future networking and cooperation both on a global and regional levels. Regional outbreak sessions on specific issues also formed...

The 2nd Africa Young Academies Regional Conference entitled “Empowering the Next Generation of Scientists in Africa” took place from 24-26 October 2016 in Mauritius. It brought together representatives from all existing National Young Academies (NYAs) in Africa, as well as NYA Initiatives and young scientists from the other countries in the NASAC network together with the NASAC member academies. The meeting was organised by the Global Young Academy with support from the University of Mauritius and The Mauritius Academy of...

Co-organised by the Global Young Academy and the Young Academy of Sweden, the Second Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies was a great chance to meet and exchange experience and discuss successful Young Academy activities. The representatives of participating National Young Academies discussed and planned future networking and cooperation both on a global and regional level. Moreover the programme included a joint conference with the European Commission’s in-house science service, Joint Research Centre (JRC) on 17 November 2015, where the participants...

The 1st Regional Meeting of Asian Young Scientists, co-organised by the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) and the Young Academy of Japan, took place in Tokyo, Japan. The main goal of the meeting was to create a unique opportunity for exchanging ideas, networking and developing purposeful and focused visions among top-notch scientists from Asian nations. The two-day programme included rich discussions on various challenging topics encountered by Asian scientists. The meeting brought together 21 young scientists from 12 Asian countries:...

The conference on “Accelerating science for development in Africa by increasing the momentum and impact of National Young Academies” was organised by the Global Young Academy (GYA) in cooperation with the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC). It brought together representatives from the NASAC member academies with all existing National Young Academies (NYAs) in Africa, as well as representatives from NYA initiatives and other young scientists from the countries in the NASAC network. The main objective of the first African...

In 2012 the GYA co-organised the first world-wide meeting of Young Academies “Shaping the Future of Young Academies” in Amsterdam, Netherlands, together with the Dutch Young Academy. A second world-wide meeting of Young Academies will take place in November 2015.