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20 June 2012

Berlin, June 20th, 2012 – The Global Young Academy today issued a sharply worded statement calling on the scientific community to do more to promote progress towards global sustainability. “The problem is not science, it is leadership”, said GYA co-chair…

18 June 2012

As policy makers prepare for the Rio+20 UN Earth Summit, the world’s science academies, through IAP with the contribution of GYA, highlight the global challenges of population and consumption. They call upon the world leaders to take decisive action. GYA…

13 June 2012

GYA members Reza Afshari, Jauad El Kharraz, Rob Jenkins, Jeronimo Maze and Javier Moguerza held an outreach activity and interaction with students (ages 9-14) at Thuto-Kitso Comprehensive School in Fochville, South Africa. Around 40 school students from different classes participated…

31 May 2012

Twenty years ago, the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development inspired a generation of young people to take up the global challenge of forging pathways to sustainability. Many of those who did are now emerging scientific leaders whose research…

31 May 2012

With a program headlined by the South African Minister for Science and Technology, the Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and other luminaries, the Global Young Academy (GYA) recently completed a very successful General Assembly meeting. The meeting, held in Johannesburg, South…

16 May 2012

On 8 May 2012, just one day before meeting a delegation organized by the Global Young Academy (GYA), Prof. Maged El-Sherbiny, Vice Minister for Scientific Research and President of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), signed a decree…

16 May 2012

The Global Young Academy (GYA) together with the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) will be hosting an International Conference and General Assembly meeting from 20-24 May 2012 at the University of Pretoria, Gordon Institute of Business Studies, Johannesburg,…

3 May 2012

GYA member Paula Kivimaa is contributing to a high-level expert committee on research integrity and scientific responsibility appointed by IAC in collaboration with IAP. GYA member Paula Kivimaa, from Finland, is contributing to a high-level expert committee on research integrity…

17 April 2012

Participate in a competition on the innovative use of science and technology in developing countries! TWAS and ISTIC are collaborating on a project aimed at identifying, rewarding and disseminating best practices in the innovative use of science and technology in…

27 March 2012

3 GYA members, Arianna Betti, Martin Dominik and Tilman Brück, are among the 25 researchers to be part of the “Voice of the researchers”. They have been selected out of 413 researchers from all over Europe who had responded to…

22 March 2012

Each year the Robert Bosch Foundation in Germany invites applications for the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship “Research into the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources”, granting up to one million euros for independent research over a period of five years at…

13 March 2012

After one and a half year of planning the Young Academy of Japan was established on 4 November 2011. In March 2012 they launched their own website.