Events: science leadership

The GYA Focus Group on addressing systemic discrimination has been working on how to support GYA members in reflecting on systemic bias that results in discrimination, and how to avoid this. This has led to the idea to develop a training workshop to look into...

The first Science Leadership Programme in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC-SLP) will be held from 1-2 December 2022 in Leticia, Columbia. The programme, which will be held in the Spanish language, is now open for applications by early to mid-career researchers. Apply by 25...

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...

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 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...

This first-of-its-kind course is designed as an immersion experience in the science diplomacy ecosystem of Washington D.C., combining academic lectures, field visits, professional development workshops, networking opportunities and leadership training. Alumni will join a global network of young leaders and innovators reaching across borders to...

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”.

With a program headlined by the South African Minister for Science and Technology, the Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and other luminaries, the Global Young Academy (GYA) recently completed a very successful General Assembly meeting.  The meeting, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, including 80 young scientists...

The GYA General Assembly later called International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting (AGM) is the annual key event of the GYA, and the main meeting in which the members can work together on the goals of this global organization.