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Shamsun Nahar Khan, member of the Executive Committee of the GYA, organised and facilitated a workshop for children aged 10-12 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop was held on 18 June 2016 at Rayer Bazar School, an education institution for under-privileged…
On 1 April 2016, the GYA and the Young Academies of Europe released two statements on Open Data and Open Access. The statements will be presented to the European Commission by GYA member Sabina Leonelli together with Rianne Letschert and…
GYA members Dimitry Maslov (Russia) and Ivana Gadjanski (Serbia) completed a YSAP funded mission titled: FabLab and 3D Future: Serbia-Russia cooperation at the 2016 FABelgrade conference in Belgrade, Serbia. The objective of this interaction was to promote digital fabrication techniques…
Dedicated to encouraging knowledge transfer, Young Scientist Ambassador Program (YSAP) fosters GYA members to serve as scientific ambassadors between developed and developing countries. The latest activity led Ghada Bassioni (Egypt) to the Netherlands, where she conducted an outreach activity to…
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) has published a report titled “Working with Big Ideas of Science Education” on 16 March 2015. The report addresses concerns that the science curriculum in many countries is overloaded and over-detailed, frequently accompanied by assessment that…
The EU is currently consulting on the Science 2.0 approach, which discusses ways of developing research in Europe and making it available. In preparation for the fourth workshop on Science 2.0 validation, the GYA has developed a position paper and…
This year five GYA members were selected to participate at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions which was held in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, 10 to 12 September 2014: Ivana Gadjanski (Serbia), Maite Martinez-Aldaya (Spain), Vanny…
Last Friday, 11 July 2014, a GYA brainstorming session with the EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) took place in Brussels, in order to identify undetected challenges for research. Each participating young scientist…
Two members of the Global Young Academy (GYA) – Co-Chair Prof Rees Kassen (Canada) as well as Dr Sherien Elagroudy (Egypt) – are invited to present a statement at the inauguration ceremony of the newly created Scientific Advisory Board of…
Entrepreneurship Training – Workshop for Young Scientists and Engineers. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities organizes a training-workshop called “Sharing the Start-Up Experience” which will take place in Jerusalem, from November 25 to 28 2013. It is intended for…
GYA- Members participated in the Young Scientists Programme of IAP and discussed the theme of the meeting – “Creating the Future Economy”. The Annual Meeting of the New Champions – also known as “Summer Davos” – 2012 was held on…
The Young Scientist Ambassador, Johan Åkerman, is both a founding member of The Young Academy of Sweden and a GYA member. Johan held an outreach activity by encouraging students and senior scientists to form a Young Academy and initiate research…