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The 2019 call for applications for the GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Project Grant is now open! Applications should be submitted by Sunday, 16 June 2019. This grant scheme, introduced at the AGM 2014, seeks to support the development of small-scale, innovative,…
GYA Executive Committee member Koen Vermeir (France) was an expert at a meeting of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors of the European Union. Koen co-founded the GYA Science Advice Working Group and has been active as an expert and…
#FridaysForFuture began in August 2018, after 15-year old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish Parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing…
The Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) brought together its 2019 cohort – excellent researchers from across Africa, from 22-27 March 2019, in one out of a host of workshops leading up to the launch of the new Future Africa campus…
Do-it-yourself (DIY) Biology working group co-lead Bart Kolodziejczyk (Australia) and the group’s external research assistant Khalisah Zulkefli recently took part in a preparatory workshop meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The…
GYA members Benjamin Hennig (Iceland), Abdalhadi Alijla (Sweden) and Simon Elsässer (Sweden) participated in the first Baltic and Nordic Young Academies joint meeting in March 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Young Academy of Sweden and aimed at deepening…
The German Junge Akademie held its 2019 spring meeting at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in March 2019. Junge Akademie members usually meet three times a year to work on current projects, develop new activities and to vote…
From 10-14 March 2019, the World Forum for Women in Science took place in Cairo (Egypt) with a focus on ‘Science Diplomacy for Sustainable Development’. The event was organised by the initiative Women in Science Without Borders. The Global Young…
The aim of the DAAD Alumni International Conference is to throw light on the challenges young African scholars are facing and to draw a roadmap towards overcoming these challenges and thus living up to their full potential. This year’s conference…
The deadline has been extended: Submissions are now accepted until 17 April 2019. In February, the GYA was formally invited to join the Steering Committee of the World Science Forum (WSF). To ensure continuity, it was decided that one of…
GYA member and DIY Biology working group co-lead Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk (Australia) recently acted as a co-lead author for the section on “Synthetic Biology: Re-engineering the environment” in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Frontiers publication on “Emerging Issues of Environmental…
On 22 February 2019, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved the creation of the Young Academy of Spain, an institution that will represent young scientists and promote new approaches to solve problems of national and international importance. GYA alumni Javier…