Events: europe

Young Academies from all over Europe will meet for this year’s ENYA meeting in Bern, Switzerland, on 5-6 June 2025. The meeting will be organised and hosted by the Swiss Young Academy, and will continue discussions from previous meetings, including discussing best practices and areas...

The General Assembly annually convenes academies of sciences and humanities from 40 countries across the Council of Europe region. General Assemblies are hosted by ALLEA Member Academies and the programme typically consists of the internal business meeting of academy delegates, and a scientific symposium open...

The next ALLEA General Assembly will take place in Brussels on 11-12 May 2022. The Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts will host the two-day event at the Academy Palace,...

Young Academies from all over Europe will meet in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-12 May 2022. The meeting, organised by the Belgian Young Academy, will continue discussions from last year’s meeting including discussing best practices and areas of joint interest. The GYA will be represented by...

This series of five free webinars is designed to help researchers in their respective regions learn more about predatory academic practices and minimise their risk of using them. The webinars will be hosted by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) with the Global Young Academy (GYA), the...

At this ALLEA 25th anniversary conference, the GYA is organizing a panel session on 9 May. The session will discuss conclusions from the GYA's International Conference of Young Scientists 'Re-Enlightenment? Truth, Reason and Science in a Global World'. At a time of perceived erosion of...

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...

GYA members Moritz Riede (UK), Monika Kedra (Poland), Robert Lepenies (Germany) and Teresa Stoepler (United States) will participate in a workshop on the UN SDGs which is being organised by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) in partnership with the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC). It will...

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...

GYA Co-Chairs Tolu Oni (UK) and Connie Nshemereirwe (Uganda) will each moderate a panel at the one-day pre-conference event Young African Scientists in Europe (YASE) on 6 July at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is the largest interdisciplinary science meeting...

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...

ALLEA will hold its 19th General Assembly at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in Sofia on 16-18 May 2018. The event comprises a scientific symposium on “Science in Times of Challenged Trust and Expertise”, as well as the science-policy symposium co-organised by the European academies’ project...

Young Academies from all over Europe met in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 23-24 March 2018. The meeting, organised by the Dutch Young Academy, was the group’s largest gathering so far with more than 35 participants representing 17 young academies and academy initiatives. The GYA was...

The 2016 conference theme was ‘Bridging Worlds Through Science’. The meeting took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands from 25 to 29 May 2016, hosted by the TU Eindhoven. 95 GYA members from 33 countries, and distinguished guests representing a range of scientific, diplomatic and policy positions, attended....

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...

The 2013 General Assembly took place from 15-18 May 2013 at the beautiful premises of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale), Germany. The meeting brings together 78 GYA members from 37 countries, distinguished members of the GYA advisory board, and senior science ambassadors from around the world. The theme of the 2013 meeting is “Demography and Global Research”.