Science and Technology in Society forum 2024

The Science and Technology in Society Forum brings together scientists and global leaders in the fields of politics, business and academia annually in Kyoto, Japan. GYA Co-Chairs Yensi Flores Bueso (University College Cork; University of Washington in Seattle, Ireland/United States) and Chandra Shekhar Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, India) have both been invited as speakers […]
Action Days at UN Summit of the Future

The UN Summit of the Future is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. Over the past months, the GYA has worked togehter with the International Science Council (ISC) to contribute an early-career researcher persepctive to the drafting […]
World Health Summit 2024

The GYA, and its Global Health working group in particular, enjoys a longstanding partnership with the World Health Summit – which is the unique international strategic forum for global health. Held annually in Berlin, it brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda […]
Women in Science Leadership Workshops

Led by the GYA Women in Science working group, a two-part online workshop “Inclusive Leadership for Women in Science”. When: 3 September: 13:00-16:00 UTC, on zoom 4 September: 19:00-22:00 UTC, on zoom Registration (until 2 September 10:00 UTC) and downloads below. The virtual workshops have been designed in partnership with the facilitation team at Inclusive […]
2025 International Conference of Young Scientists and GYA Annual General Meeting

“Confluence of Visionaries: Empowering Science for Global Change” The 2025 AGM and Conference took place from 10-13 June, in Hyderabad, India, hosted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and co-organised by the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) and the GYA, with support from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). Over 200 […]
73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting – Physics

The GYA is a nominating partner of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. GYA member Encieh Erfani (Mainz University, Germany) was nominated by the GYA and selected by the Lindau organisation to attend the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics). Once every year, about 30 Nobel Laureates convene in Lindau to meet the next generation of […]
2024 ALLEA General Assembly and Public Symposium

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 […]
2024 World Science Forum

The GYA, in cooperation with the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), is co-organizing a capacity building workhop for approximately 35 early-career researchers on Trust in Science, to take place in tandem with the 2024 World Science Forum (WSF). A GYA panel on Research Assessment, in cooperation with the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) will also be […]
At-risk scholars professional skills workshop 2024

Since 2019, the GYA At-risk scholars initiative co-organises a workshop that brings together at-risk scholars based in the UK and volunteer experts in their fields, to support career development and professional skills in a broad academic context. The workshop takes place at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, supported by funding from an anonymous grant to […]
2024 European Young Academies Meeting

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 […]
INGSA 2024

The Transformation Imperative: Expanded Evidence for Inclusive Policies in Diverse Contexts The International Network for Government Science Advice conference (INGSA2024) from 1-2 May 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda, will bring 500 delegates together from across academia, policymaking, diplomacy, and the private sector to comprehensively examine the role and function of science-policy-society mechanisms at, and between, all […]
2024 International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting

“Transformative and Inclusive Science for a Sustainable Future” The 2024 GYA Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The meeting was supported by a Local Organising Committee comprising GYA members in the USA, members of the National Academies’ New Voices in […]