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[youtube id=”wO9A_5-UakQ”] Video of panel discussion: ‘How can open science maximise the impact and value of research and innovation for our societies?‘ GYA Co-Chair Moritz Riede (UK) spoke at the Policy Symposium ‘Digital Open Science: Solving the Societal and Sustainability…

GYA member Meghnath Dhimal attended the 9th World Health Summit on “Science – Innovation – Policies” from 15-17 October 2017 in Berlin, Germany. At the summit, world health issues were discussed, including non-communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases, global health research…

Members of the GYA Working Group ‘DIY Synthetic Biology’ conceived an interactive mini-hackathon focused on approaches to predict and address security risks associated with technological progress in the field of genome editing. With the support of the Volkswagen Foundation, this…

The Young Academy of Europe (YAE) held its annual AGM jointly with the Academia Europaea (AE) and All European Academies (ALLEA) from 3-4 September 2017. The topic of the meeting “Sustainability and Resilience” is linked with the new Horizon2020-funded Scientific…

From 6-8 September, 2017, GYA member Roberta D’Alessandro attended a Summer School on Evidence and Policy, co-organised by the EU Joint Research Council (JRC) and the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) and the Slovac Academy of Sciences (SAS)….

On 11 October 2017, the Policy Mini-Hackathon on Future Security Challenges of Genome-Editing Technologies will take place in Hanover, Germany. Organised by the GYA incubator group “DIY Synthetic Biology”, this event will take place in the context of the International…

Between 22 and 26 August 2017 the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences took place in Lindau, near Lake Constance. It welcomed 17 Nobel Laureates and 350 young economists from well over sixty countries worldwide. Once more, the Lindau Council…

In August 2017, GYA member John Malone went on an outreach mission to Costa Rica for the GYA Young Scientists Ambassador Programme (YSAP). During his stay, he engaged with researchers at the Universidad de Costa Rica to propose a joint…

GYA executive committee member Almas Taj Awan and GYA alumnus Aftab Ahmad arranged a workshop and three school tours on 14-15 March 2017 in a remote village named ‘Dandi (District Chakwal)’ in Pakistan. The workshop was based on a project…

This year, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) in collaboration with the Robert Bosh Foundation, has launched the Africa Science Week Initiative, under the theme: “ Igniting the Power of Science”. The initiative is going to be Africa’s annual weeklong celebration…

GYA Co-Chair Tolu Oni (Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa) was a lead discussant on Friday, 14 July at the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York, during Session 16: Science-policy interface and emerging…