Events: capacity building

Join the Global Young Academy, Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, and National Science Policy Network's Science Diplomacy Committee on Friday, October 29th from 4:00-5:30 pm CDT as we jointly host a learning opportunity and happy hour social. The event will explore the current challenges and experiences of early...

The MENA Science Leadership Workshop (SLP) - "The Role of Collective Leadership for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals" will take place from 6 - 8 September 2021 online. To prepare the next generation of scientists for the complexities that inter- and transdisciplinary research, this workshop...

The Southern Africa Science Leadership Workshop "Resilience in Science Leadership during the COVID era" will take place from 23 - 25 August 2021 online.  The Southern Africa Science Leadership Programme (S-ASLP) aims at developing early and mid-career researchers in the areas of thought leadership, team...

The sixth Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) workshop is planned to be held in Pretoria, South Africa, at the Future Africa campus from 21 to 25 August 2020. The ASLP was launched in 2015 and has since trained over 100 fellows from 19 countries across...

The World Economic Forum on Africa (link) meeting is being held in Cape Town from the 4 - 6 September 2019. In partnership with the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) and the University of Cape Town (UCT), the GloSYS Africa team and GYA...

Members from the GYA working group Global Health will attend the 10th World Health Summit from 14-16 October 2018 in Berlin, Germany. In addition, two GYA-nominated young medical scientists have been invited to take part in the Young Physician Leaders programme 2018, which takes place...

The 2018 Evidence and Policy Summer School in Laxenburg, Austria is organised by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) and the Global Young Academy (GYA). The...

SILBERSALZ is the first international science film festival of its kind, taking place from 28.06.18 until 01.07.2018 in Halle. As a combination of festival and conference, SILBERSALZ makes science accessible in a clear and vivid fashion while simultaneously serving as a platform for the exchange...

The inaugural regional training workshop on science diplomacy, organised by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), The World Academy of Sciences Regional Office for sub-Saharan Africa (TWAS-ROSSA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will be held in South Africa,...