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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…
GYA Executive Committee member Koen Vermeir (France) was an expert at a meeting of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors of the European Union. Koen co-founded the GYA Science Advice Working Group and has been active as an expert and…
#FridaysForFuture began in August 2018, after 15-year old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish Parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing…
The Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) brought together its 2019 cohort – excellent researchers from across Africa, from 22-27 March 2019, in one out of a host of workshops leading up to the launch of the new Future Africa campus…
Do-it-yourself (DIY) Biology working group co-lead Bart Kolodziejczyk (Australia) and the group’s external research assistant Khalisah Zulkefli recently took part in a preparatory workshop meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The…
GYA members Benjamin Hennig (Iceland), Abdalhadi Alijla (Sweden) and Simon Elsässer (Sweden) participated in the first Baltic and Nordic Young Academies joint meeting in March 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Young Academy of Sweden and aimed at deepening…