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GYA member Tran Quang Huy conducted several interviews to popularise the Global Young Academy (GYA) and the Young Scientist Ambassador Programme in Vietnam. Tran encouraged young people to consider science as a career path and seek out ways to become…

The GYA is publishing a new report on “Restoring Canada’s Competitiveness in Fundamental Research: The View from the Bench” today. The report by GYA members Julia Baum and Jeremy Kerr reveals that Canada’s support for fundamental research crumbled over the…

The Global Young Academy is pleased to introduce Dr Narong Sirilertworakul as new member of its Advisory Board as of March 2017. Dr Narong Sirilertworakul is the Executive Vice President of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) in…

Roberta D’Alessandro attended the 5th WCRI (World Conference on Research Integrity), which was held in Amsterdam on May 28-31. The WCRI was organized around the interlinked themes of transparency and accountability, building on the premise that the honesty and reliability…

The Global Young Academy is pleased to welcome 39 new members to its ranks. All new members were inaugurated at the opening of the 7th International Conference of Young Scientists and GYA Annual General Meeting in Aviemore, Scotland from 15-19…

GYA working group „Science + Art = Peace + Justice” has published a video (see below) of their GENEThiCS-2084 workshop held in October 2016 at a school in Scotland, UK. Children were asked to come up with ideas of what…

GYA has just published its 2016 Year Review with 12 stories on what we have achieved or worked on in the past year. Articles range from open access and science diplomacy to our involvement in the G7 Science & Technology…

GYA member Benjamin Hennig was one of 100 so-called Young Global Changers from 100 different countries to attend the Think 20 Summit – Global Solutions that took place in Berlin on 29-30 May 2017. He also attended a side event…

The latest edition of „Connections“, our GYA magazine is out now. The themed articles in the current issue examine “Water” from many different angles, encompassing the extremes of urban and rural, flood and drought, the lightning fast and the glacier…

GYA was well represented at the 2017 Science-Technology-Innovation Forum at the UN Headquarters in New York. The event took place on 15-16 May 2017 and was noted not only for the diverse group of stakeholders (diplomats, ministers of science and…

GYA member Mahesh Kumar held an outreach activity by discussing the Young Scientist Ambassador Programme at a training course for physics teachers at Kendriya Vidyalayas in Jodhpur, India. Around 30 school physics teachers from different schools participated in this programme….