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The first Tsukuba Conference took place from 2-4 October 2019 in Tsukuba, Japan, and aimed to provide young researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs a platform to discuss and debate global issues, to put together action plans and proposals, and to reach…
The Junge Akademie (Germany) has announced the winners of its “Celebration Rituals” competition, which looked at how the successful completion of a doctorate/PhD degree is celebrated. The Academy’s working group on “Pro-Motion”, playing on the German term for getting your…
The Global Young Academy’s Executive Committee (EC) held their yearly in-person meeting from 22-24 September 2019 in Berlin, Germany. EC members traveled from five continents to participate in discussions centering around the GYA’s strategic planning, working group activities, the ongoing…
Young academies from the Nordic and Baltic countries have published a joint statement on gender equality in academia. The statement grew out of the first Nordic-Baltic meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2019. The statement’s purpose is to identify…
As a strong advocate of the implementation of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Global Young Academy welcomes the release of the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 (GSDR) titled “The Future is Now: Science for Achieving Sustainable…
For the first time, scientists from Russia and China discussed environmental management on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which was held from 4-6 September 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia. Discussions focused on the path of biodiversity conservation in…
Members from the GYA working group on Measuring Excellence in Science Engagement have published an article on “Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded” in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Based on a survey which the group…
The GYA At-Risk Scholars Initiative held an Academic Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Workshop, hosted by Wolfson College, University of Oxford, from 5-7 September. The workshop aimed to empower outstanding at-risk or displaced researchers to excel in their new higher education environments,…
Inspired by and in conjunction with the Finnish EU Presidency, the Young Academy Finland have started to gather information from European young academies on their science-policy interface activities. This work is done under the new “Young Researchers as Knowledge Brokers”…
In August, Abdalhadi Alijla (Sweden), co-lead of the GYA Global Migration and Human Rights working group participated in the Eleventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies in Helsinki, Finland. During the Conference on “Breaking and Creating Boundaries in the Middle…
Exactly 50 years after the original Woodstock festival was held in New York, the Science + Arts = Peace + Justice working group presented Vladiwoodstock, the first international and interspecies festival, based in Vladivostok, Russia. Day 1 focussed on human…
You want to make an impact in the world and engage, outside the walls of the lab, academia or industry. We are in a particular historical moment where young people, especially young scientists, need to engage to create new and…