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During the 64th session of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, GYA Executive Committee member Koen Vermeir (France) delivered a statement on ‘the right to science’. The statement was delivered during a day…
On 27 September 2018, Austria’s Young Academy celebrated its tenth anniversary with current and former members at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) in Vienna. Established in 2008 as the “Junge Kurie”, as it was then known, the Young Academy…
This year’s GYA Executive Committee in-person meeting took place in Halle, Germany from 24 to 27 September. In addition to a team-building workshop on the 24th, EC members met among themselves for two days to discuss governance issues. Attending members…
Publicly funded research output should neither be hidden behind paywalls nor be a ‘pay-to-publish’ game. This is one of the core tenets of the Position Statement titled ‘Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Plan S – The View of Young Academies’,…
The Sri Lanka Academy of Young Scientists (SLAYS), together with the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (NSF) and in collaboration with the Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI), co-organised the 2nd SLAYS Open Forum on “Research for…
Members from the GYA Science Advice working group co-organised an Evidence and Policy Summer School together with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the International Network for Government Science Advice…
The Global Young Academy has now published the report of the 8th International Conference of Young Scientists & GYA Annual General Meeting in Pattaya, Thailand on ‘Forever Young? Sustainable and healthy longevity through science and technology’. Please download the full…
Members from the GYA working group on Do-it-yourself Biology will participate in the second CILAC Forum (Latin America and Caribbean Open Science Forum) in Panama in October 2018, by organising a panel session on the “Do-it-yourself biology movement in Latin…
In September 2018, an IAP / EASAC workshop at the Leopoldina in Halle, Germany, addressed how academies can support the implementation of the UN SDGs. Representatives from 21 EASAC (European Academies’ Science Advisory Council) member academies and 4 National Young…
The Bio2Bio working group held a panel discussion at the World Social Science Forum in Fukuoka, Japan on 25 September titled “Biodiversity and biomedicine: sustainability for human health”. This event was organised with support from the National Science and Technology…
The Nigerian Young Academy has begun a campaign against plagiarism among researchers in the country by organising workshops to create awareness on the dangers of this academic pitfall. Some of the initial efforts on this were captured by science journalist…
This year’s GYA Executive Committee in-person meeting took place in Halle, Germany from 23 to 27 September. In addition to a team-building workshop on the 24th, EC members met among themselves for two days at the Leopoldina to discuss governance…