Below are some impressions from the Closing Ceremony of the GYA’s International Conference of Young Scientists “Harmonising Reason with Sensibility: Regenerating science for an inclusive and sustainable future”, as well as the final day of the Annual General Meeting.
On the final day of the Conference, President-elect of the International Science Council Motoko Kotani discussed the ISC’s ongoing activities, as well as its new initiative to expand Young Academy presence in the ISC by accepting applications for Affiliate Membership. You can learn more of this program here.
Her speech was followed by GYA member Yoko Shimpuku (Hiroshima University, Japan) presenting attendees with the working draft of the Conference Statement. After discussion and input by attendees, several amendments were made.
The Conference Statement Committee will now take up the document and complete and release it soon.
The 2022 Annual General Meeting successfully concluded as well on 17 June, and included the election of new leadership. To represent and lead them through the upcoming year, GYA members elected leaders hailing from North America, Africa, Asia and Europe – a majority of whom are women – to the Executive Committee (EC), which is comprised of eleven members of which two are Co-Chairs.
As Co-Chairs for the upcoming year, members chose Priscilla Kolibea Mante (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana) and Prosper Ngabonziza (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany). Prosper served as a member of the EC last year.
Further EC members are as follows: Michael Backes (University of Namibia); Cristina Blanco Sío-López (Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy); Encieh Erfani (IASBS, Iran); Sri Fatmawati (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia); Alma Cristal Hernández-Mondragón (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico); Monika Kędra (Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Felix Moronta Barrios (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy); Arya Shalini Subash (Institute of Chemical Technology, India; and Filippo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy).
Below are some images from the third day of the Conference.
