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Indian legal scholar Tarunabh Khaitan has been awarded the inaugural Letten Prize for research on global development challenges. The prize itself is a novel initiative by the Young Academy of Norway and the Letten Foundation. The initiative seeks explicitly to…
GYA alumni Eva Alisic (Australia) and Hans Hilgenkamp (NL) have written an editorial in Science about New Voices, the new young academy-like organisation in the United States. The piece on “New voices, at last” welcomes the launch of the “New…
From 13-14 August, an IAP / AASSA workshop addressed how academies can support implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Representatives from 14 of the 30 AASSA (Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia) member national academies…
Following a selection procedure by the GYA internal review committee, the 2018-19 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant was awarded to Suzanne Bouclin (Canada) and Binyam Sisay Mendisu (Ethiopia) for the research project proposal: Can Digital Storytelling be used as a Tool…
The Global State of Young Scientists Africa (GloSYS Africa) project was recently featured in an expose that appeared in The Conversation. The article presents the project’s initial findings, which point to a lack of mentoring, resources and funding as key…
The Global Young Academy is home to visionaries and dreamers who invest their spare time into projects aiming to change the world. Right now, one of those projects urgently needs your help to tell our story. The Biodiversity for Survival…
Three new GYA Incubator groups have been established now after the AGM in Thailand: GYA Rainbow Incubator Citizen Science for the 2030 SDG Agenda Skill Development and Science Communication The Incubator on Trust in (Young) Scientists has been promoted to…
The Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) convened a meeting of AAS Affiliates, international research leaders, and funders at The University of Oxford from 6 to 8 August 2018. Among the attendees were GYA members…
The Burundi Council of Young Scientists, the Ghana Young Academy, the Nigerian Young Academy and the South African Young Academy of Science, together with the senior science academies in Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan, have been selected for the InterAcademy Partnership’s…
A Conference on “Sustainable African Cities – Debating current Challenges and exploring future Pathways” took place in Accra, Ghana, in July 2018, hosted by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) and co-organised by the Network of African Science…
The Young Academy of Japan (YAJ) hosted a public symposium on ‘Young Academy’s Thoughts on Cross-disciplinary Social Collaboration Based on Citizen Science.’ YAJ Chair and GYA member Akihiro Kishimura (Japan) gave an opening address and explained YAJ to the audience….
GYA members and young scientists around the globe feel they have a role to play when it comes to working towards creating an age-friendly future globally. This claim is made in a GYA Conference Statement on ‘Creating a world friendly…