- GYA Home
- News
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…
The GYA community has been deeply saddened to learn about the passing of GYA alumni Noble Banadda (Makerere University, Uganda). Noble was a member of the GYA from 2013-2018, and was a truly gifted scientist. Among his many achievements, he…
During the “Improving Trust through Communication” session of the 2021 AGM and International Conference “Trust in Science“, Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen) unveiled “Science with Society” – the SCISO Project. The SCISO Project wants… … to raise awareness among (young)…
“The academic systems in many countries are marred by a systemic imbalance between the number of Ph.D. holders and the number of permanent academic positions, forcing many academics to either opt for precarious employment or to eventually leave the sector…
The GYA partnered with Future Earth to elevate early-career researcher voices at the first Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021). In a joint selection process, 11 excellent Early Career Champions were selected from among applicants around the world to…