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26 March 2021

An online satellite panel and discussion on “Trust in Climate Science” opened the Global Young Academy’s 2021 International Conference of Young Scientists on the topic of “Trust in Science”. Moderated by Leila Niamir (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and…

24 March 2021

As a partner in the consortium that has been developing the Open Research Europe (ORE) publishing platform, the GYA is pleased to announce that the European Commission has now officially launched this open access publishing platform for scientific articles that…

24 March 2021

The GYA is pleased to share a new working paper titled “Reviewing research on researchers: Our knowledge of early-career researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean“, which highlights how early-career researchers (ECRs) are key players in advancing knowledge societies. The…

17 March 2021

The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Global Young Academy (GYA) lay out recommendations to mitigate the harms of COVID-19 and seize on the opportunities to improve higher education systems around the world. Read the communique here https://interacademies.org/COVID_education On 16 March…

15 March 2021

‘The COVID-19 pandemic and art (19andART)’ project, funded by the 2020/21 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant, has produced a database prototype, visualising the geographic and time information of COVID19-related art on an openly accessible website, as the first step of an…

8 March 2021

Under the leadership of Leila Niamir (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany) the 69-member Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) has finalised the selection of 31 new members to join the GYA in June…

24 February 2021

The Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), India’s first and only recognised young scientists academy, was founded in December 2014 with a vision to promote Science education and networking among young Indian scientists. The sixth annual INYAS general body…

24 February 2021

The project Citizen Science for Reducing Exposure to Urban Air Pollution, which was awarded the GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant from 2019-2020, has issued its final report, outlining collaborative research, outreach activities and resulting publications (read the full report here). GYA…

20 January 2021

The GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) promotes the efforts by GYA members to bridge the international scientific gap by facilitating cultural, scientific, intellectual, or educational interactions. The ambassadorships are non-traditional; that is, interactions occur between two countries that are…

18 January 2021

ALLEA, the Global Young Academy (GYA), and STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) published today the summary of a series of cross-sectoral workshops on the future of peer review in an open, digital world. Experts from across…

16 January 2021

The GYA Science Diplomacy in South Asia working group organised a five-day online workshop on Science Diplomacy in South Asia in November and December 2020. A total of 100 participants from seven countries (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives,…

6 January 2021

In December 2020, the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS) and the Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies (IMPM) organised the first edition of a scientific eloquence competition called “Three minutes to convince CAYS”. This competition was held…