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GYA Co-Chairs Connie Nshemereirwe (Uganda) and Koen Vermier (France) send their closing message from the 2019 AGM and Conference of Young Scientists in Halle (Saale), Germany.
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Over 160 early- and mid-career researchers from all over the world gathered in Halle, Germany for the GYA’s Anniversary International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting. To represent and lead them through the upcoming year, GYA members elected…
The third day of the GYA’s Annual General Meeting in Halle, Germany, featured a meeting of representatives from 27 national young academies (NYAs), similar bodies and networks and NYA Initiatives, including from countries such as India, New Zealand, Israel, Germany,…
Refugee and migrant integration is one of the most contentious topics in the news and has become a pressing issue, particularly in Western Europe and North America. ‘Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration’, a new book edited by Global Migration…
The first formal workshop for the GloSYS Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) project was opened with Anna Coussens (Australia) talking through the key successes and challenges that have characterised the GloSYS Africa project – which is currently drawing to a…
The Global Young Academy is pleased to welcome 43 new members to its ranks. All new members were inaugurated at the opening of the GYA Anniversary International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Halle, Germany on…
Based on the Africa and ASEAN science leadership programmes, this two-day workshop brought together over 30 new GYA members to develop communicative leadership skills for their careers and their work with the GYA. The workshop, facilitated by Inclusive Innovation, aimed…
A paper on medicinal plant extracts by GYA member Alexander Kagansky (Russia) and alumna Vidushi Neergheen-Bhujun (Mauritius) has just been published in ActaNaturae (Vol. 11/1). Vidushi and Sasha teamed up with colleagues from the Far Eastern Federal University Vladivostok, the…
The first skills training workshop for early-career at-risk scientists and scholars in the context of the GYA At-Risk Scholars Initiative was held in collaboration with the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) from 9-10 April, in Ispra, Italy. The two-day workshop…
GYA Executive Committee member and former co-lead of the Open Science working group Koen Vermeir (France) represented the GYA at the European Commission’s Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on 11 April 2019, where the future of…
In recognition of its growing influence in the global science community, the Global Young Academy (GYA) has been named a full member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the global network of 138 academies of science, engineering and medicine. The official…
Two GYA members spoke at the third IAP Science for Poverty Eradication Committee (SPEC) Conference, which took place from 27-29 March 2019, in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference addressed the topic ‘How Can Science and Technology Contribute to…