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The InterAcademy Partnership Science Education Programme Working Group held a two-day meeting in March 2023 in Rabat, Morocco, to discuss the latest trends and challenges in science education. The meeting was attended by members of the Global Council and invited…
As part of the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA) Annual Spring Conference held at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, GYA alumna and former EC member Maral Dadvar (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) was an invited panelist for the public…
GYA Executive Committee (EC) member Filippo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and GYA alumnus Wataru Iwasaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) provided a voice for early- and mid-career researchers during the G-Science Academy (S7) International Symposium, held in Tokyo, Japan in…
The GYA’s Open Science working group is organising Open Science First Fridays – a series of discussions on current topics impacting Open Science, ranging from ChatGPT to Open Science policies on every first Friday of the month. The lectures feature…
When it became clear that the GYA’s 2022 Annual General Meeting and International Conference of Young Scientists would have to be a hybrid meeting – in Fukuoka, Japan, but with most GYA members taking part online – the GYA decided…
Under the leadership of Menattallah Elserafy (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) the 53-member Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) has finalised the selection of 41 new members to join the GYA in June 2023 for a…
GYA Co-Chair Priscilla Kolibea Mante, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana I was Born in Accra, Ghana, to parents who were both teachers. Nonetheless, I hated going to school. My maternal grandmother always had to bribe me with…
Jane Yau (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany) In Hong Kong, China, the little girl in the picture loved to learn at school and was very curious. In the village where she grew up, she loved to…
Dominika Latusek-Jurczak (Kozminski University, Poland) The sky’s the limit! That’s what the little girl in this picture firmly believed. But then she was told that there wouldn’t be many chances for her in life. The little girl had dreams, but…
Amarjargal Dagvadorj (Parliamentary Research Service, Mongolia) I was ten years old in this picture. At that time, only a few people had personal cameras in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. Those with cameras used to stand in the capital’s…
Ana Elizabeth Ochoa Sánchez (Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador) I was born on January 24, 1986 in a Latin family. My father is a doctor, and my mother is a primary school teacher. My brother was born four years later. I…
Ramia AL BAKAIN (University of Jordan) Success is to focus on your positives, and to make your strengths stronger and stronger. Since I entered primary school, I have hoped to put a positive imprint on this world through science, which…