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Expedition Mundus working group co-lead Thomas Edison dela Cruz took the Mundus game to Brunei in January 2018. Thirty-nine Grade 9 students, aged 13 – 14 years, from St. Andrew’s School in Brunei Darussalam, played the Expedition Mundus Game as…

On 1 December 2017, the 3rd Oxford OpenCon satellite event, organised by Crossref, the Bodleian Libraries and the Centre for Digital Scholarship of the University of Oxford and of course OpenCon, was held in Oxford. GYA Co-Chair Moritz Riede was…

In December 2017, the Inter-Academy Partnership Science for Poverty Eradication Committee (IAP-SPEC) convened in Beijing, China, to discuss the role of Science Academies in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in general and their participation in the achievement of SDG…

A significant proportion of the world’s estimated ten million species of fungi, plants, and animals are at risk of extinction. To help address this problem, a group of young scientists has formed the working group Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine…

GYA Member Mahesh Kumar participated in a ‘Science-Business-Society-Dialogue’ Conference of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), focusing on the Sustainable Use of Abandoned Mines in the Southern African Development Community…

Koen Vermeir, co-chair of the GYA Open Science Working Group, attended OpenCon 2017, organized by SPARC and the Right to Research Coalition and hosted by the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany on November 11-13 2017. Like every year, OpenCon…

Koen Vermeir, the Co-Chair of GYA’s Science Advice Working Group, was invited to act as a Panellist during the “Science meets Parliaments” event at the European Parliament in Brussels on 28 November 2017 to provide the perspective of young scientists…

On Friday 27 October 2017 GYA member Connie Nshemereirwe attended the launch of the EU Joint Research Council (JRC) report titled Science for the African Union-European Union Partnership: building knowledge for sustainable development. The purpose of the event was to…

On 9 November 2017, as part of the Skype a Scientist programme, John Malone (USA) and Sasha Kagansky (UK, Russia)from the GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme skyped with students from Athens Middle School, Alabama (USA). They did so while they…

The World Science Forum is a bi-annual forum on the social and economic relevance, influence and responsibilities of science. The 8th biennial meeting, with the theme ‘Science for Peace’ was held at the Dead Sea in Jordan, from 7-10 November…

In October 2017, GYA member Mirabbos Hojamberdiev (Uzbekistan) visited the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology as well as the “Blue Sky” Primary School located in Arusha, Tanzania, as part of the GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme. He…