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Members of the Global Young Academy’s At-Risk Scholar Initiative participated in the AAAS Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference, from 23-25 October 2019 in Washington, DC, USA. Üzeyir Ogurlu, Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, and GYA member Teresa Stoepler, co-lead of…
At this year’s World Health Summit, which is one of the world’s leading strategic forums for global health, GYA member and immediate past Co-Chair Tolu Oni (United Kingdom) spoke during the opening ceremony, and several other GYA members -from the…
On 26 October 2019, the First World Young Scientist Summit was held in Wenzhou, China. The meeting was unprecedented in China for its focus on young researchers and scholars, and covered all possible academic areas. Attendees came from over 70…
The Sri Lankan Academy of Young Scientists (SLAYS) successfully held their Third Annual International Conference in October 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Considered the largest conference among early to mid-career scientists from academia and industry as well as postgraduate research…
Members from the GYA working group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction participated in the 2019 Global Development Conference on the theme of “Knowledge for Sustainable Development: The Research Policy Nexus” on 23-25 October 2019 in Bonn, Germany. Working…
Koen Vermeir (France), GYA Co-Chair and past co-lead of the Open Science Working Group, attended the Open Science Coordination in Europe meeting in Helsinki on 21 October, where the new network of national open science coordinators was inaugurated. Koen also…
The 2019 World Science Forum (WSF), with a focus on ‘Science, Ethics and Responsibility’, will celebrate 20 years of science diplomacy. The meeting brings together thousands of scientists and scholars with policymakers, society, industry and science communicators. Plenary speakers nominated…
The video of the Open Science Fair 2019 has just been released! You can watch GYA Co-Chair and past co-lead of the GYA Open Science working group Koen Vermeir (France) deliver a presentation on the new implementation guidelines of “Plan…
APPLY BY 15 NOVEMBER The call for applications for the ASEAN Science Leadership Programme (ASEAN SLP) 2019, from 1- 5 December in Hanoi, Viet Nam, is now open until 15 November 2019. The ASEAN SLP 2019 has developed as a…
The Connecting Minds conference took place 25-27 September 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, and was a collaboration between the GYA, the African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science of South Africa, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, and the Next Einstein…
The IAP Science Education Programme’s (SEP) Global Council held its annual meeting in August in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting was hosted by the National Science Museum of Thailand, which also organized a ‘Policy Forum on Science Literacy: Roles of science…
The conference ”New STI Policies in a Changing World”, organised by the Delegation of the European Union to Japan and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), took place on 5 October 2019 at the Kyoto International Conference Center,…