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From 14-18 March 2015, prospective Global Young Academy (GYA) member Eijiro Sumii (Japan) attended the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR). Eijiro Sumii was part of the Science and Technology Major Group. Major Groups are representing various…
Eight young scientists nominated by the Global Young Academy (GYA) for the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting 2015 have been selected in a highly competitive process. Among the participants is GYA member Vidushi Neergheen from Mauritius. As the target group of…
The Global Young Academy (GYA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP). The programme will be run by the University of Pretoria in partnership with the GYA and is funded by the Robert Bosch…
GYA member François Légaré is selected to receive 2015 Herzberg Medal for Contributions in Ultrafast Molecular Imaging. Global Young Academy (GYA) member and Professor of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre François Légaré…
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…
GYA Attendance: Julia Baum, Bernard Slippers Global Young Academy (GYA) member Julia Baum and alumnus and former Co-Chair Bernard Slippers will attend this year’s meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)Global Academy and have a presentation on Thursday,…
The Global Young Academy (GYA) and the Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) project of the GYA were presented at the annual University Leadership and Management Training Program (UNILEAD) in Germany by GloSYS Project Researcher Johannes Geffers. The key objective…
The first joint project of the GYA with the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission will focus on the topic Invisible Worlds: what complex “worlds” usually go unnoticed in every day’s life, but make the world go around….
Both number and quality of applications for GYA membership has increased significantly. After a highly competitive peer review process, 38 applicants have been selected to become GYA members in 2015. They will be officially inducted at the GYA AGM 2015…
The Indonesian Academy of Science (AIPI) committed to facilitate the formation of an Indonesian National Young Academy (NYA) later in 2015. With support from the Indonesian Senior Academy and the US Kavli Frontiers of Science, the AIPI will be selecting…
A team of international scientists around former Co-Chair and founding member of the Global Young Academy Gregory Weiss garnered a lot of international media attention with a chemical method to “unboil an egg”. Their ChemBioChem-paper went viral on social media….
From 30 January to 2 February 2015 the In-Person Meeting of the GYA Executive Committee (EC) took place in the GYA office at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin (BBAW). After meetings with representatives of the GYA…