As part of the sixth annual United Nations Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) held in early May 2021, GYA members Clarissa Rios Rojas (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Mai Tolba…
To increase awareness and active support for discplaced scientists and researchers, the International Science Council (ISC), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) have launched a joint, global at-risk, displaced and refugee scientists’ initiative. The project…
The GYA and the Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) research team organised the panel event ‘Research in LAC: Leading the Push for Inclusion of Early-Career Researchers’ as part of the Latin America and the Caribbean Open Science Forum 2021…
The first Science Leadership Programme to be organized for early- to mid-career researchers and scientists in APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) countries took place online this year. The GYA fosters and promotes a model of science leadership which aims to impart…
The GYA is pleased to announce that the first publication stemming from the GloSYS Africa project is now available: ‘Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective‘. The team of authors to the…
An online satellite panel and discussion on “Trust in Climate Science” opened the Global Young Academy’s 2021 International Conference of Young Scientists on the topic of “Trust in Science”. Moderated by Leila Niamir (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and…
As a partner in the consortium that has been developing the Open Research Europe (ORE) publishing platform, the GYA is pleased to announce that the European Commission has now officially launched this open access publishing platform for scientific articles that…
The GYA is pleased to share a new working paper titled “Reviewing research on researchers: Our knowledge of early-career researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean“, which highlights how early-career researchers (ECRs) are key players in advancing knowledge societies. The…
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Global Young Academy (GYA) lay out recommendations to mitigate the harms of COVID-19 and seize on the opportunities to improve higher education systems around the world. Read the communique here https://interacademies.org/COVID_education On 16 March…
‘The COVID-19 pandemic and art (19andART)’ project, funded by the 2020/21 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant, has produced a database prototype, visualising the geographic and time information of COVID19-related art on an openly accessible website, as the first step of an…
Under the leadership of Leila Niamir (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany) the 69-member Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) has finalised the selection of 31 new members to join the GYA in June…
The Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), India’s first and only recognised young scientists academy, was founded in December 2014 with a vision to promote Science education and networking among young Indian scientists. The sixth annual INYAS general body…