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15 June 2020

The Global Young Academy’s first-ever virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) successfully concluded on 12 June, and included the election of new leadership. To represent and lead them through the upcoming year, GYA members elected leaders hailing from South America, Africa,…

8 June 2020

The Global Young Academy is pleased to welcome 40 new members to its ranks. All new members were inaugurated at the opening of this year’s electronic Annual General Meeting (e-AGM) on 8 June 2020. The 2020 new GYA members represent…

8 June 2020

EC member Michael Saliba (Germany) and GYA alumnus Javier García-Martínez (Spain) organised a webinar on “The Future of Energy: A Global Conversation” to launch the GYAEnergy Initiative on 5 June 2020. Modern society, as we know it, was only possible…

2 June 2020

On 14 May 2020, members of the GYA organised a webinar in Spanish titled “COVID-19 in Latin America, perspectives from young scientists”. This event brought together six Latin American natural scientists – all members of the GYA – to discuss…

29 May 2020

Since 2018, the GYA has organized 2-day science leadership workshops for its newest members in connection with its Annual General Meetings. The workshops, based on the Africa and ASEAN science leadership programmes, give participants space to reflect together on how…

29 May 2020

The Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP), the High-Level Advisory Group that advised the European Commission on how to develop Open Science between 2016 and 2020, has produced its final report, “Progress on Open Science: Towards a Shared Research Knowledge System”…

28 May 2020

Call for New Voices in Global Health at the World Health Summit 2020 The GYA is looking for 4–6 contributions from its members, and members of National Young Academies (NYAs), on “Perspectives and responses of young scientists to the coronavirus…

28 May 2020

Science and medical academies from the G-7 countries and seven additional academies, including the Global Young Academy (GYA), have issued three joint statements to advise the G-7 process, and to inform ongoing policy-making and public discussion. The three joint statements…

28 May 2020

On 27 May 2020, the Young Academy Finland (YAF) and the Belgian Young Academy co-organised a webinar on “The Future of Independent Science Advice in the EU Ecosystem: How to make sure that research synthesis reports are read?”. The event…

20 May 2020

The first 29 members for the Swiss Young Academy have now been selected. The Swiss Young Academy was established in December 2019. They are now organising a virtual meeting of their members, where they will also elect their co-chairs. The…

19 May 2020

The GYA Women in Science Working Group have published a paper on “GYA Women in Science stay and work from home: How might we make Covid-19 lockdown work for us?“. This publication shares working group members’ inspiring experiences on how…

10 May 2020

The 2019/20 North-South Interdisciplinary Grant project Citizen Science for Reducing Exposure to Urban Air Pollution explores questions of how citizen engagement can help advance science, with a focus on the area of data collection to record air quality. In an…