Koen Vermeir (France), GYA Co-Chair and past co-lead of the Open Science Working Group, attended the Open Science Coordination in Europe meeting in Helsinki on 21 October, where the new network of national open science coordinators was inaugurated. Koen also…
The 2019 World Science Forum (WSF), with a focus on ‘Science, Ethics and Responsibility’, will celebrate 20 years of science diplomacy. The meeting brings together thousands of scientists and scholars with policymakers, society, industry and science communicators. Plenary speakers nominated…
The video of the Open Science Fair 2019 has just been released! You can watch GYA Co-Chair and past co-lead of the GYA Open Science working group Koen Vermeir (France) deliver a presentation on the new implementation guidelines of “Plan…
APPLY BY 15 NOVEMBER The call for applications for the ASEAN Science Leadership Programme (ASEAN SLP) 2019, from 1- 5 December in Hanoi, Viet Nam, is now open until 15 November 2019. The ASEAN SLP 2019 has developed as a…
The Connecting Minds conference took place 25-27 September 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, and was a collaboration between the GYA, the African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science of South Africa, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, and the Next Einstein…
The IAP Science Education Programme’s (SEP) Global Council held its annual meeting in August in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting was hosted by the National Science Museum of Thailand, which also organized a ‘Policy Forum on Science Literacy: Roles of science…
The conference ”New STI Policies in a Changing World”, organised by the Delegation of the European Union to Japan and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), took place on 5 October 2019 at the Kyoto International Conference Center,…
GYA members were prominently present at the 16th Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, held from 5-8 October in Kyoto, Japan. The STS Forum addresses the advance of science and technology and the important ethical, safety and environmental issues…
The first Tsukuba Conference took place from 2-4 October 2019 in Tsukuba, Japan, and aimed to provide young researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs a platform to discuss and debate global issues, to put together action plans and proposals, and to reach…
The Junge Akademie (Germany) has announced the winners of its “Celebration Rituals” competition, which looked at how the successful completion of a doctorate/PhD degree is celebrated. The Academy’s working group on “Pro-Motion”, playing on the German term for getting your…
The Global Young Academy’s Executive Committee (EC) held their yearly in-person meeting from 22-24 September 2019 in Berlin, Germany. EC members traveled from five continents to participate in discussions centering around the GYA’s strategic planning, working group activities, the ongoing…
Young academies from the Nordic and Baltic countries have published a joint statement on gender equality in academia. The statement grew out of the first Nordic-Baltic meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2019. The statement’s purpose is to identify…