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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…
Preparing your application for the Global Young Academy (GYA): 9 tips to make sure you put in a competitive application! We are delighted that you are planning to submit an application to join the GYA! This is to help…
The 2019-20 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant has been awarded to Ibrahim Sidi Zakari (Niger), Robert Lepenies (Germany) and Lisa Herzog (Germany) for the project: Citizen Science for Reducing Exposure to Urban Air Pollution. In this project, they will explore, in…
On 8 August, GYA members from Japan Wataru Iwasaki and Yoko Shimpuku met the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, and the Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Mr Takuya Hirai, to report the recommendations from the…
The Fourth Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies took place in Da Nang, Vietnam, from 31 July – 2 August 2019, hosted by the Vietnam Young Academy (VYA) and co-organised by the GYA. Representatives from more than 30 young academies from…
GYA member Mona Khoury-Kassabri from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, hosted a GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) mission in June 2019. GYA member Mahesh Kumar, a professor of Microelectronics at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India, met research…
The Fourth Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies takes place in Da Nang, Vietnam, from 31 July – 2 August 2019, hosted by the Vietnam Young Academy (VYA) and co-organised by the Global Young Academy (GYA). Representatives from more than 30…
Executive Committee member Sandra Lopez-Verges (Panama) represented the GYA recently at the 4th National Meeting of the Affiliate Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 24-26 June in Fortaleza, Brazil. Alexander Birbrair (Brazil), a new GYA member and a member…
The Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2019 has been awarded to GYA alumna Nguyễn Thị Kim Thanh (Vietnam) for her achievements in the field of nanomaterials. She will be awarded a medal and a monetary gift at her lecture in…
The new JRC report “Understanding Our Political Nature”, co-created by more than 60 experts and policy makers, including GYA members Robert Lepenies, Roberta D’Alessandro and Koen Vermeir, was launched on 18 July 2019 in Brussels. The report explains a new…
The book Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration contributes to the ongoing debate about the integration of newcomers into societies by gathering insights from different academic disciplines, experiences from migrants and newcomers, and comments from those engaged in the day-to-day…