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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…
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…
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…
On 21 April 2020, the International Science Council (ISC) officially welcomed the GYA to its ranks as an Affiliate Member. The GYA now stands together with over 170 international scientific unions and associations, as well as national and regional scientific…
Since 2005, the National Science Academies of the G7 countries, sometimes in cooperation with other relevant countries, have met annually to develop policy recommendations to be delivered to the leaders of each country. In 2012, when 15 academies met in…
The 2020 call for applications for the GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant is now open! Applications should be submitted by Sunday, 28 June 2020. This grant scheme, introduced at the GYA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM), seeks to support the development…
The GYA is coordinating a new global working group on Open Science, comprising members from 25 National Young Academies (NYAs) from around the globe, as well as members from the GYA’s long-standing working group on Open Science. Back in August…
GYA Co-Chair Koen Vermeir (CNRS, France) participated in the UNESCO Virtual Ministerial Dialogue on COVID-19 and “Open Science” held on 30 March 2020. This was the first time UNESCO organized an important ministerial meeting virtually. Participants included 77 ministers and…
Note: The full version of this Statement is available here. All infographics are available here. The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted the world and it will not be the last pandemic to wreak havoc on humanity. Global…
Global developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic have made planning for an in-person Annual General Meeting (AGM) and International Conference of Young Scientists unwise. The GYA is now planning for its first electronic AGM and Conference. While we truly regret…
The European Commission is setting up its own free Open Access publishing platform for scientific articles. The platform will be a peer-reviewed publishing service to support beneficiaries of Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and related funding schemes to meet the European…
Under the leadership of Mohamed Elhadidy (Zewail City for Science and Technology, Egypt) the 51 member selection committee of the Global Young Academy has finalised the selection of 40 new members to join the GYA in June 2020 for a…