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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…

The GYA Media Team’s newest innovation is the Calendar functionality of the GYA website, which allows you to coordinate with other GYA members who are attending an event, as well as add events to your own calendar. The Calendar functionality…

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 GYA has a number of accounts across the social media spectrum, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, and our impact is growing every day. Indeed, we recently surpassed 3,000 followers on twitter, which naturally has us tweeting for joy. Our…

GYA Advisory Board members serve a maximum of two three-year terms. This year, outgoing members include Howard Alper, Bruce Alberts, Helmut Schwarz, and Mohamed Hassan. The GYA is grateful to all outgoing members for their valuable counsel over the years…

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…

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…