‘New Perspectives on Open Science’, an international workshop on Open Science convened by GYA Co-Chair Moritz Riede (UK) and GYA Open Science Working Group co-lead Koen Vermeir (France) was held on 20 March 2018 in Oxford (UK). The workshop was…
On 7 March 2018, the GYA participated in a discussion event with regional parliamentarians on “Digitalisation in Science and Society” which was co-organised by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Junge Akademie and the GYA in Magdeburg,…
At the first-ever GYA Lunchtime Talk at our host academy, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, GYA member Benjamin Hennig (Iceland/UK) gave a talk about his research on inequality in higher education on 6 March 2018. As an Associate…
Members of the Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) recently contributed to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 2018 Youth Forum (#YOUTH2030). The forum, titled ‘The role of youth in building sustainable and resilient urban and rural communities’, provided…
The Israel Young Academy hosted the Asian Young Academies Meeting in Jerusalem on 11-12 February 2018 with the theme: “Science and Society: Challenges and Prospects”. Representatives from both the GYA and from a number of National Young Academies participated. As…
Expedition Mundus working group co-lead Thomas Edison dela Cruz took the Mundus game to Brunei in January 2018. Thirty-nine Grade 9 students, aged 13 – 14 years, from St. Andrew’s School in Brunei Darussalam, played the Expedition Mundus Game as…
On 1 December 2017, the 3rd Oxford OpenCon satellite event, organised by Crossref, the Bodleian Libraries and the Centre for Digital Scholarship of the University of Oxford and of course OpenCon, was held in Oxford. GYA Co-Chair Moritz Riede was…
In December 2017, the Inter-Academy Partnership Science for Poverty Eradication Committee (IAP-SPEC) convened in Beijing, China, to discuss the role of Science Academies in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in general and their participation in the achievement of SDG…
A significant proportion of the world’s estimated ten million species of fungi, plants, and animals are at risk of extinction. To help address this problem, a group of young scientists has formed the working group Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine…
GYA Member Mahesh Kumar participated in a ‘Science-Business-Society-Dialogue’ Conference of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), focusing on the Sustainable Use of Abandoned Mines in the Southern African Development Community…
Koen Vermeir, co-chair of the GYA Open Science Working Group, attended OpenCon 2017, organized by SPARC and the Right to Research Coalition and hosted by the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany on November 11-13 2017. Like every year, OpenCon…
Koen Vermeir, the Co-Chair of GYA’s Science Advice Working Group, was invited to act as a Panellist during the “Science meets Parliaments” event at the European Parliament in Brussels on 28 November 2017 to provide the perspective of young scientists…