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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…
The GYA had a strong showing at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) from 9 to 14 July in Toulouse, France. In addition to GYA member Koen Vermeir (France) delivering a keynote talk during a plenary session that included GYA Advisory…
On 11 July 2018, GYA member Shaheen Motala-Timol (Mauritius) and GYA alumnus Fawzi Mohamad Mahomoodally (Mauritius) participated in a seminar on ‘Participatory Research in Health Science’, which was led by Miraj Desai (Yale School of Medicine, USA) and organised by…
GYA member Koen Vermeir (France) represented the GYA Open Science working group at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe. Koen presented during a plenary panel discussion titled ‘Opening up Open Science: Innovations, Ideas and…
The 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, dedicated to physiology and medicine, took place from 24-29 June 2018 in Lindau, Germany. Once every year, about 30 Nobel Laureates convene in Lindau to meet the next generation of leading scientists: 500-600 undergraduates,…
From 28 June to 1 July, the first science media film festival – ‘SILBERSALZ’ – took place in Halle (Saale), coordinated by Documentary Campus and supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation. In the context of this city-wide festival, a two-day…
GYA members Rothsophal Nguon (Cambodia), Kit Yee Chan (UK), Hong Ching (Malaysia) and Sasha Kagansky (Russia) from the Young Scientist Ambassador Programme and the Science Education for Youth working group organised a science outreach mission in Siem Reap, Cambodia in…
GYA member Michael Saliba (Switzerland, pictured at right) became a member of the German Junge Akademie at their annual membership inauguration and get-together in Berlin, Germany, on 30 June 2018. Short 2-minute presentations by the new members this year focused…
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…