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GYA members Patrick B Cobbinah (Ghana), Ketcha Armand Kablan Malan (Cote d’Ivoire), Chioma Daisy Onyige (Nigeria) and Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo (Kenya) will represent the GYA at the upcoming conference on ‘Sustainable African Cities’ from 3-6 July 2018 in Accra, Ghana….
On 6 June 2018, DIY Biology and Bio2Bio working group member John Malone (USA) served as a panelist at the United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation side event titled ‘Implications of emerging biotechnologies in the context of…
Dr Beate Wagner, Managing Director of the Global Young Academy (GYA), was invited to give a brief presentation on the GYA and its work at a meeting of the City Council’s Board for Science and Economy (Wissenschaft und Wirtschaftsförderung) of…
Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, were debated in a two-day regional workshop organized by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) and hosted by the Mexican Academy…
The GYA joins the world on June 20 as it commemorates the strength, courage, and perseverance of millions of refugees on UN World Refugee Day. And though World Refugee Day comes just once per year, the GYA, through its member-driven…
As representatives of the GYA and the Scientific Excellence Working Group, on 31 May 2018 Laura Fierce (USA) and Koen Vermeir (France) presented during a panel titled ‘International Perspectives on Reproducibility and Replication in Science and Engineering’ during the Fifth…
The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) held a kick-off workshop of its Enlightenment 2.0 Flagship Report at the end of May 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. GYA members Roberta D’Allessandro (Netherlands), Robert Lepenies (Germany) and Koen Vermeir (France) are among…
The 8th International Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy took place from 7 – 11 May in Pattaya, Thailand, bringing together 114 GYA members and alumni. The conference addressed the topic ‘Forever Young? Sustainable and Healthy…
Following a call by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), GYA Members Lisa Herzog (Germany) and Robert Lepenies (Germany) and GYA alumnus Martin Dominik participated in a video competition on “Trust in science”. Members of the…
The DIY Biology Working Group recently made policy recommendations for guiding synthetic biology to the United Nations. GYA members Bart Kolodziejczyk (Poland) and John Malone (USA) contributed a science policy brief titled ‘Do-it-yourself biology: an open innovation movement or a…
On 12 May, GYA members John Malone (USA), Alexander Kagansky (Russia), Shamsun Khan (Bangladesh), Sergey Kostyrko (Russia), Mahesh Kumar (India), Clarissa Rojas (Peru), Felycia Soetaredjo (Indonesia), and Abdalhadi Alijla (Sweden) presented research seminars at Burapha University, Thailand, as part of…
At the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 2016, the member states adopted a resolution that established the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. Its…