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From 23 to 27 April 2018, the first TWAS Young Affiliate Network (TYAN) International Thematic Workshop on “Fundamentals of Photoelectrochemistry: From Materials Chemistry to Energy Conversion” took place in Chascomus, Argentina. The thematic workshop in photoelectrochemistry was assembled because…
On 27 March during the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering in Kigali Rwanda, Co-Chairs Moritz Riede (UK) and Tolu Oni (South Africa), together with Ghada Bassioni (Egypt) and Managing Director Beate Wagner had the opportunity to meet Vladimir Šucha, the…
Connecting Networks to Co-design Transformative Science Leadership Programmes for Africa Research capacity in Africa is increasing rapidly, and needs to expand at an even faster pace to ensure that the continent and its youthful population can compete in the global…
The 2018 call for applications for the GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Project Grant is now open! Applications should be submitted by 15 June 2018. This grant scheme, introduced at the AGM 2014, seeks to support the development of small-scale, innovative, curiosity-driven,…
The GYA wishes to thank all young academies who took the time and submitted a proposal to host the 4th Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies (WWMYA) in 2019 in answer to our call. The GYA was very pleased to receive…
The GYA Science Advice Working Group is co-organising 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 (INGSA)….
Members of the GloSYS Africa team, including current members Abdeslam Badre (Morocco) and Fridah Kanana Erastus (Kenya), GYA alumnus Abidemi Akindele (Nigeria) and GloSYS researcher Marie Neumann held an hour-long interactive session at this year’s Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering…
The Second Women in Science Without Borders Conference was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 21-23 March 2018 under the title of WISWB-Indaba-“Resilience in Diversity”. The conference organisers had encouraged participation from both male and female scientists in all fields…
The GYA held its first dedicated in-person meeting of members of its Advisory Board with the two Co-Chairs Tolu Oni and Moritz Riede, and GYA Managing Director Beate Wagner on 29 and 30 March in Oxford, UK. Advisory Board members…
The GYA Women in Science Group co-organised a 22-24 March CIFAR Women in Science Leadership Workshop titled ‘Fostering diverse and inclusive leadership in academia’, which took place as a pre-event to the 2018 Global Gathering of the Next Einstein Forum…
Young Academies from all over Europe met in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 23-24 March 2018. The meeting, organised by the Dutch Young Academy, was the group’s largest gathering so far with more than 35 participants representing 17 young academies and…
GYA members Connie Nshemereirwe (Uganda) and Shaheen Motala-Timol (Mauritius) and alumna Amal Amin Ibrahim (Egypt) attended the “International Forum on Women and Sustainable Development in Africa” in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, organised by the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), the Académie…