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The GYA has signed an agreement to support the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022 (IYBSSD), organised under the aegis of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The purpose of IYBSSD 2022 is to…
GYA Declaration of Support for Afghan Scholars The members and alumni of the Global Young Academy (GYA) urge governments, universities and scientific organisations to take immediate action to secure the lives and careers of Afghanistan’s scholars and students. A particular…
The GYA joins higher education associations, networks, and academies to endorse an urgent appeal by Scholars at Risk Europe to European governments and European Union institutions to take immediate action to secure the lives and careers of Afghanistan’s scholars, students,…
The Academy of International Affairs (AIA) North Rhine-Westphalia officially opened on 25 August 2021 in the presence of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, and other illuminaries. For this occasion, the AIA held its first Summer Academy from…
The GYA’s Executive Committee (EC) has endorsed the 10 goals of the Lindau Declaration 2020 on Sustainable Cooperative Open Science. The Lindau Declaration 2020 on Sustainable Cooperative Open Science, first presented and suggested by Elizabeth Blackburn during the 68th Lindau…
by Abdalhadi Alijla, past GYA Executive Committee member, Co-Founder of the Palestine Young Academy, and Postdoctoral fellow at the Orient-Institute, Beirut Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, “fake news”, that is, unscientific information and untrustworthy news, have made their…
The GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme working group (YSAP) is calling for proposals for online missions in 2021. All GYA members, irrespective of whether they are a member of the YSAP working group, can apply. Each proposal should come from…
In November 2020, GYA alumni Boon Han Lim (Tunku Abdul Rahman University, Malaysia) and Martin Dominik (University of St Andrews, UK) as members of the GYA working group on Scientific Excellence, together with ALLEA, jointly organised an online workshop entitled…
The work of GYA member Mai Tolba (Ain shams university, Egypt) was recently featured in an installment of the video series “The Next Big Thing” presented by the Futurium, a museum in Berlin, Germany, dedicated to the future. According to…
Together with the Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG), the GYA’s Science Advice Working Group held a joint virtual science policy memo writing workshop for early career researchers all across the globe in May 2021. The workshop aimed to…
GYA alumnus Huanyu Cheng (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and member Suraj Bhattarai (Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Nepal) were nominated and selected to participate in the 70th anniversary Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which was postponed to 2021 and held in…
By Paulina Carmona-Mora (University of California Davis, United States) We in the scientific community – including those of us in higher education – have felt the effects the COVID-19 pandemic on science. Indeed, as laid out in the recent 2021…