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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…
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…