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GYA member Mahesh Kumar held an outreach activity by discussing the Young Scientist Ambassador Programme at a training course for physics teachers at Kendriya Vidyalayas in Jodhpur, India. Around 30 school physics teachers from different schools participated in this programme….

GYA members Bing Chen, Ghada Bassioni, Alexander Kagansky and Wilfred van der Wiel held a YSAP outreach activity titled “Synthetic Biology and the Future” for 20 Kingussie High School and Granton Grammar School students in Aviemore, Scotland. Ambassadors challenged students…

The Egyptian Young Academy of Science (EYAS) and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research &Technology organised the 1st International Conference on Woman in Science Without Borders (WISWB) 2017 from 21-23 March 2017 in Cairo, Egypt. GYA alumna Amal Amin Ibrahim…

In March 2017, GYA member S. Karly Kehoe (Canada) attended the Refugee Scientists: Transnational Resources workshop in Trieste, Italy. She was there as a representative of the GYA Global Migration and Human Rights working group and spoke about the work…

The 1st Asian National Young Academy (NYA) Meeting, entitled “Advancing Synergies in Asian NYAs”, took place from 15 – 16 December in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting was the first of its kind to connect the majority of Asian NYAs with…

GYA member and co-chair of the Open Science Working Group, Koen Vermeir, attended a conference on Open Access and the Evaluation of Research: Towards a New Ecosystem. The conference, which took place on 13 and 14 October 2016 in Toulouse,…

Shamsun Nahar Khan, member of the Executive Committee of the GYA, organised and facilitated a workshop for children aged 10-12 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop was held on 18 June 2016 at Rayer Bazar School, an education institution for under-privileged…

On 1 April 2016, the GYA and the Young Academies of Europe released two statements on Open Data and Open Access. The statements will be presented to the European Commission by GYA member Sabina Leonelli together with Rianne Letschert and…

GYA members Dimitry Maslov (Russia) and Ivana Gadjanski (Serbia) completed a YSAP funded mission titled: FabLab and 3D Future: Serbia-Russia cooperation at the 2016 FABelgrade conference in Belgrade, Serbia. The objective of this interaction was to promote digital fabrication techniques…

Dedicated to encouraging knowledge transfer, Young Scientist Ambassador Program (YSAP) fosters GYA members to serve as scientific ambassadors between developed and developing countries. The latest activity led Ghada Bassioni (Egypt) to the Netherlands, where she conducted an outreach activity to…