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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…

The GYA working group on Open Science, and in particular GYA alumna Sabina Leonelli (UK) who acted as one of the rapporteurs for this document, have been involved in redacting the recently published final recommendations by the Open Science Policy…

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…