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The Global Young Academy is pleased to welcome 39 new members to its ranks. All new members were inaugurated at the opening of the 7th International Conference of Young Scientists and GYA Annual General Meeting in Aviemore, Scotland from 15-19…

GYA working group „Science + Art = Peace + Justice” has published a video (see below) of their GENEThiCS-2084 workshop held in October 2016 at a school in Scotland, UK. Children were asked to come up with ideas of what…

GYA has just published its 2016 Year Review with 12 stories on what we have achieved or worked on in the past year. Articles range from open access and science diplomacy to our involvement in the G7 Science & Technology…

GYA member Benjamin Hennig was one of 100 so-called Young Global Changers from 100 different countries to attend the Think 20 Summit – Global Solutions that took place in Berlin on 29-30 May 2017. He also attended a side event…

The latest edition of „Connections“, our GYA magazine is out now. The themed articles in the current issue examine “Water” from many different angles, encompassing the extremes of urban and rural, flood and drought, the lightning fast and the glacier…

GYA was well represented at the 2017 Science-Technology-Innovation Forum at the UN Headquarters in New York. The event took place on 15-16 May 2017 and was noted not only for the diverse group of stakeholders (diplomats, ministers of science and…

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…

Young researchers from over 40 countries have gathered in Aviemore, Scotland, UK for the Global Young Academy’s (GYA) annual general meeting and a conference on the theme of “Social Justice in a Rapidly Changing World”. To represent this international academy…

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…

On 17 March 2017, GYA member Patrizio Antici participated in the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) participatory workshop focused on professional skills needed in organisations working at the evidence-policy interface. The JRC is the European Commission’s in-house science service and ever…