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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…

The Global State of Young Scientists – GloSYS – Africa team held its second in-person meeting at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, in early October. Attending the meeting were the core team, collaborating research partners, research assistants (tasked with…

[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…

Global Young Academy Executive Committee (EC) members from around the world convened in Halle (Saale), Germany, at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and at the GYA Office from 2-3 October 2017. Due to the global nature of the…

GYA member Meghnath Dhimal has been appointed Lead Guest Editor to publish a special issue due in June 2018 on “Global Environmental Change and Changing Pattern of Infectious Diseases” for the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, an…

The EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) held its Annual Conference on 26 September 2017 on the topic ‘EU for Facts: Evidence for Policy in a post-fact World’. GYA Members Maral Dadvar (Germany), Roberta D’Alessandro (the Netherlands) and Koen Vermeir (France),…

A “Water Footprint” training course (in Spanish) will take place online on 16 October 2017, held by GYA alumna Maite Aldaya, research associate at the Water Observatory of Spain, and organised by the Fundación Centro Internacional de Hidrología Subterránea (FCIHS)….

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…