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18 May 2015

The Global Young Academy (GYA) is hosting their 5th International Conference for Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting 2015 at the Chateau Montebello, Quebec, Canada, from 25 to 29 May 2015, with the theme Innovation for Sustainable Globalization as its…

5 May 2015

GYA member Sabina Leonelli presented the GYA position statement and findings from her own research on Open Science at the ICSU CODATA International Training Workshop on Big Data, 18-19 March 2015. At the International Training Workshop on Big Data and…

28 April 2015

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…

1 April 2015

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…

26 March 2015

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…

24 March 2015

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…

16 March 2015

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…

4 March 2015

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,…

3 March 2015

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…

1 March 2015

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….

18 February 2015

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…

17 February 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…