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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…
After eight months of consultation, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) approved the establishment of the ‘Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS)’ on 20 December 2014. Coming into existence in 2015, the newly founded academy will consist of about…
The Global Young Academy (GYA) today delivered a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that stressed the importance of science for achieving sustainability and poverty reduction. The letter, written in response to the report by the UN’s High-Level Panel…
Members of the Global Young Academy (GYA) and external experts met for the first meeting of the GloSYS ASEAN project in Bangkok, Thailand. This kickoff meeting was the first regional workshop following up on the GloSYS precursor study published by…
The Beijing Declaration calls on IAP member academies, governments, the private sector and UNESCO to strengthen science education around the world – with a focus on the proven methods of inquiry-based science education (IBSE). GYA Co-Chair Sameh Soror participated in…
The EU is currently consulting on the Science 2.0 approach, which discusses ways of developing research in Europe and making it available. In preparation for the fourth workshop on Science 2.0 validation, the GYA has developed a position paper and…
On October 15th Javier Garcia-Martinez gave an invited talk at the Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Science Academy of Peru) on the role of young scientists in providing solutions to global challenges. The conference, very well attended by members of the…
The GYA submitted input to the consultation on “Science 2.0: Science in Transition” by the European Commission. The goal of the consultation was to “better understand the full societal potential of ‘Science 2.0’ as well as the desirability of any…
GYA EC member Mitsunobu Kano and several GYA members attended the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum from 5-7 October 2014 in Kyoto, Japan. The STS Forum brings together scholars and researchers with science ministers, business leaders, heads of…
On 18 September 2014 the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) was officially launched under the auspices of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and in the presence of the President of ASRT, Prof. Mahmoud Sakr, the…
This year five GYA members were selected to participate at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions which was held in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, 10 to 12 September 2014: Ivana Gadjanski (Serbia), Maite Martinez-Aldaya (Spain), Vanny…