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Under the leadership of Maral Dadvar the 46 members of the selection committee have selected 43 new members to join the GYA in late April 2019 for a tenure of five years. The applications have been evaluated by at least…
Open Science working group member Koen Vermeir (France) attended the Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference on ‘Bringing Value in Academic Publishing: Practical Solutions for Thriving in a Changing Environment‘ in Berlin, Germany, in January 2019. He talked about how publishers…
On 9 January 2019 the symposium titled ‘Present and Future of Science in Chile’ was held in Santiago, Chile. The event, sponsored by the Embassy of Canada in Chile and the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, brought together more than 200…
It is not common to hold a meeting in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, but the Responsible Research and Innovation Networking Globally (RRING ) project did. The RRING project aims to bring Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into…
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Dmitry Mendeleev discovering the Periodic System, and has thus been proclaimed the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” (IYPT2019). GYA alumni Javier Garcia-Martinez (Spain), a member of the Executive Board…
Global Young Academy member Mohamed Elhadidy (Egypt) represented the GYA at the 2018 Global Research Council (GRC) MENA Regional Consultative Meeting from 3-4 December 2018, in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting brought together science funding organisations from the MENA region and…
As part of a collaboration between two GYA members, Mirabbos Hojamberdiev (Uzbekistan) of Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan visited the Indian Institute of Technology in Jodhpur, India from 11-27 December 2018. While in India, Mirabbos conducted two YSAP activities:…
GYA member Bartłomiej Kołodziejczyk (Australia) has contributed to an evidence review report on “A scientific perspective on microplastics in nature and society” by SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies). The report presents a review of evidence on microplastics…
For the 2019 funding period, GYA members will continue to be active in 18 working groups and three Incubators within the three GYA Themes of Science & Society, Research Environment, and Science Education and Outreach. The Incubator on Science Diplomacy…
As part of African Science week in December 2018, GYA member Binyam Sisay Mendisu (Ethiopia) helped the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (UNESCO-IICBA) organise a two-day visit in Jinka, Ethiopia. While in Jinka, the team had a…
On November 26-27, 2018, the Tenth International Forum of NGOs took place in Moscow. GYA member Sergey Kostyrko was nomitated by the GYA to take part in the forum, and reported on the event. The forum was organized by NGO-UNESCO…
As an outcome of the international symposium “Global Individual Responsibility: The Role of the Citizen in Refugee Integration“, held at the Munich Center for Ethics at the University of Munich (Germany) from 25 to 27 April 2018, a new report…