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From 28 June to 1 July, the first science media film festival – ‘SILBERSALZ’ – took place in Halle (Saale), coordinated by Documentary Campus and supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation. In the context of this city-wide festival, a two-day…
GYA members Rothsophal Nguon (Cambodia), Kit Yee Chan (UK), Hong Ching (Malaysia) and Sasha Kagansky (Russia) from the Young Scientist Ambassador Programme and the Science Education for Youth working group organised a science outreach mission in Siem Reap, Cambodia in…
GYA member Michael Saliba (Switzerland, pictured at right) became a member of the German Junge Akademie at their annual membership inauguration and get-together in Berlin, Germany, on 30 June 2018. Short 2-minute presentations by the new members this year focused…
GYA members Patrick B Cobbinah (Ghana), Ketcha Armand Kablan Malan (Cote d’Ivoire), Chioma Daisy Onyige (Nigeria) and Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo (Kenya) will represent the GYA at the upcoming conference on ‘Sustainable African Cities’ from 3-6 July 2018 in Accra, Ghana….
On 6 June 2018, DIY Biology and Bio2Bio working group member John Malone (USA) served as a panelist at the United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation side event titled ‘Implications of emerging biotechnologies in the context of…
Dr Beate Wagner, Managing Director of the Global Young Academy (GYA), was invited to give a brief presentation on the GYA and its work at a meeting of the City Council’s Board for Science and Economy (Wissenschaft und Wirtschaftsförderung) of…
The GYA working group on Open Science, and in particular GYA alumna Sabina Leonelli (UK) who acted as one of the rapporteurs for this document, have been involved in redacting the recently published final recommendations by the Open Science Policy…
Many people wonder why they should trust science these days. The Trust in (Young) Scientists incubator aims at contributing an answer by opening up the ‘black box’ of science to a broader audience. During the 2018 GYA Annual General Meeting,…
Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, were debated in a two-day regional workshop organized by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) and hosted by the Mexican Academy…
The GYA joins the world on June 20 as it commemorates the strength, courage, and perseverance of millions of refugees on UN World Refugee Day. And though World Refugee Day comes just once per year, the GYA, through its member-driven…
The GYA Media Team’s newest innovation is the Calendar functionality of the GYA website, which allows you to coordinate with other GYA members who are attending an event, as well as add events to your own calendar. The Calendar functionality…
As representatives of the GYA and the Scientific Excellence Working Group, on 31 May 2018 Laura Fierce (USA) and Koen Vermeir (France) presented during a panel titled ‘International Perspectives on Reproducibility and Replication in Science and Engineering’ during the Fifth…