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To all Global Young Academy Members: 2018 Call for Applications! The GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) is seeking Ambassadors to make connections between nations and scientific disciplines by facilitating cultural, scientific, intellectual, or educational missions. This connection should be…
On 15 and 16 January 2018, members of the GloSYS Africa research team converged at the GYA Office in Halle. Attendees included a core team of GYA members who function as co-PIs of the project and a group of research…
On 1 December 2017, the 3rd Oxford OpenCon satellite event, organised by Crossref, the Bodleian Libraries and the Centre for Digital Scholarship of the University of Oxford and of course OpenCon, was held in Oxford. GYA Co-Chair Moritz Riede was…
In December 2017, the Inter-Academy Partnership Science for Poverty Eradication Committee (IAP-SPEC) convened in Beijing, China, to discuss the role of Science Academies in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in general and their participation in the achievement of SDG…
A significant proportion of the world’s estimated ten million species of fungi, plants, and animals are at risk of extinction. To help address this problem, a group of young scientists has formed the working group Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine…
GYA Member Mahesh Kumar participated in a ‘Science-Business-Society-Dialogue’ Conference of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), focusing on the Sustainable Use of Abandoned Mines in the Southern African Development Community…
Koen Vermeir, co-chair of the GYA Open Science Working Group, attended OpenCon 2017, organized by SPARC and the Right to Research Coalition and hosted by the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany on November 11-13 2017. Like every year, OpenCon…
As part of the Korea Science Week 2017 (30 Oct – 1 Nov), the recently established Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) organised and hosted a one-day “Young Scientists Talk 2017” event on 1 November 2017 in Seoul…
The GYA was invited to participate in the inaugural event by the Albanian Young Academy – a scientific conference with the theme: “Methodology and Scientific Research: Tradition and Innovation”. Connie Nshemereirwe (Uganda) represented GYA leadership at the event. The conference…
The Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) and the Global Young Academy (GYA) in cooperation with the Malaysian Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT), the Thai National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), and the World Academy of Sciences Young…
Koen Vermeir, the Co-Chair of GYA’s Science Advice Working Group, was invited to act as a Panellist during the “Science meets Parliaments” event at the European Parliament in Brussels on 28 November 2017 to provide the perspective of young scientists…
On Friday 27 October 2017 GYA member Connie Nshemereirwe attended the launch of the EU Joint Research Council (JRC) report titled Science for the African Union-European Union Partnership: building knowledge for sustainable development. The purpose of the event was to…