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The GYA Science + Art working group are pleased to launch a photography competition to bring together art and science. Entitled ‘Visions and Images of Fascination’, this competition is being led by the GYA in collaboration with: the German Young…
The GYA has now allocated 2018 funding for its working groups and Incubators. In addition to base funding for all existing working groups and Incubators, the following funds were allocated: A new Incubator on Trust in (Young) Scientists has been…
Expedition Mundus working group co-lead Thomas Edison dela Cruz took the Mundus game to Brunei in January 2018. Thirty-nine Grade 9 students, aged 13 – 14 years, from St. Andrew’s School in Brunei Darussalam, played the Expedition Mundus Game as…
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…