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At the end of October 2018, Die Junge Akademie (Germany) held its Autumn Plenary Session at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary. Just one day before, the CEU announced its move to Vienna due to recent developments within…
The GYA joins the world on 10 November as it celebrates the importance of science on UN World Science Day for Peace and Development. In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and of the…
GYA, in partnership with the Young Academy of Japan, organised a science leadership workshop focusing on science advice capacity building for young scientists. It took place in Tokyo, Japan, on 5 November 2018 – prior to the 3rd biennial conference…
In October 2018, the University of Belgrade in Serbia served as host to a GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) mission, where GYA member Thomas Edison dela Cruz, a professor of microbiology at the University of Santo Tomas in the…
On 19 October 2018, the official platform for young scientists in the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region, the ASEAN Young Scientists Network was officially launched in conjunction with the 75th ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology Meeting…
The Global Young Academy released a report today titled ‘Publishing models, assessment, and open science’. The report is the outcome of a workshop that explored the links between scholarly publishing, research evaluation, and open science. A key conclusion of the…
GYA members, scientists and scholars from around the globe were actively involved in the second CILAC Forum (Latin America and Caribbean Open Science Forum), which took place in Panama City, Panama from 22-24 October 2018. CILAC seeks to contribute to…
2018 has seen a concerted effort by young and senior academicians to engage with the UN Regional Commissions and with each other on the implementation of the UN SDGs. In doing so, they have identified a wide range of practicable…
During the 64th session of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, GYA Executive Committee member Koen Vermeir (France) delivered a statement on ‘the right to science’. The statement was delivered during a day…
On 27 September 2018, Austria’s Young Academy celebrated its tenth anniversary with current and former members at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) in Vienna. Established in 2008 as the “Junge Kurie”, as it was then known, the Young Academy…
This year’s GYA Executive Committee in-person meeting took place in Halle, Germany from 24 to 27 September. In addition to a team-building workshop on the 24th, EC members met among themselves for two days to discuss governance issues. Attending members…
Publicly funded research output should neither be hidden behind paywalls nor be a ‘pay-to-publish’ game. This is one of the core tenets of the Position Statement titled ‘Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Plan S – The View of Young Academies’,…