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Joint Conference of the InterAcademy Partnership and the world’s young academies We are pleased to announce the InterAcademy Partnership IAP Triennial Conference and Worldwide Meeting of the Young Academies! The theme of the meeting will be, “Inclusive Excellence: Harnessing knowledge…
Members of the GYA working group on Open Science, together with members from the Global working group on Open Science, have led the publication of two articles on Open Science in CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for…
A lesser known right embedded in UN treaties is receiving increasing attention: Known as the “right to science”, Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights grants all people the right “to enjoy the benefits of…
The purpose of the Rainbow Corner is to provide a regular space for GYA members (or their colleagues) who identify as LGBTQAI+, as well as allies supporting this cause, to share brief contributions on their unique experience in academia –…
GYA member Paulina Carmora-Mora (University of California-Davis, USA) and alumna Dilfuza Egamberdieva (National University of Uzbekistan) hosted the 1st Central Asia Genomics Symposium in December 2021. The symposium is intended to be a hub for genomics-related research in Central Asia,…
In October 2021, GYA Global Health Working Group members, along with members of National Young Academies and similar early- to mid-career scientist networks organised and contributed to a New Voices in Global Health session at the World Health Summit in…
Following the 2021 AGM theme of “Trust in Science”, the working groups “Trust in (Young) Scientists” and “Global Health” organised a webinar titled “Hardcore science skepticism – What can young scientists do?” The webinar was moderated by past Executive Committee…
Two GYA members working in the social sciences – Alexandra Dmitrieva (Support, Research and Development Center, Ukraine) and Alma Hernández-Mondragón (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) – were selected to attend, participate and take…
The need to protect and support academic researchers fleeing conflict zones and politically challenging circumstances around the world is urgent. These intellectuals are perceived as threatening to regimes and extremist groups and are targeted as a result. Their survival and…
by Roula Inglesi-Lotz, GYA Co-Chair, University of Pretoria, South Africa 23 November 2021 “Early career researchers (ECRs)—PhD students, post-docs as well as recently-appointed principal investigators—constitute a large fraction of the scientific community”.[i] However, ECRs are often excluded from science decision-making…
The GYA supports Open Science and Open Access in a variety of ways, including our collaboration with the Open Research Europe publishing consortium, our Open Science working group, and now also through our endorsement of the Statement titled “Article Processing…
The Global Young Academy has published a full report on its 2021 online International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting on the topic “Trust in Science”. The report leads with a message from the GYA Co-Chairs, and includes…