Every year, TWAS’s Regional Partners select up to 25 scientists younger than 40 as Young Affiliates. The honour is given to researchers from developing nations who show potential for a high-impact career. During their six-year tenures, Young Affiliates build networks...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking suggestions for experts to participate in the new consensus study to review the draft Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment. This draft document will comprise a scientific and scholarly assessment of...
GYA members Paulina Carmona-Mora (University of California-Davis, United States), Luisa Echeverria (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Colombia), Alma Cristal Hernández (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico), incoming members Luisa Diele-Viegas (UFBA, Brazil), Wilson Alavia Medina (Universidad...
On the 26th of April, 9:00-10:00 AM, CET, the Young Academy of Europe organizes an event entilted “Mindfulness based practices to improve mental health in academia” featuring Gábor Fazekas, who will provide some practical and theoretical introduction into mindfulness-based stress reduction and...
The Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei hosted a meeting of the National Academies of the G7 countries on 11 and 12 April 2024. The primary aim was to present joint statements representing the perspectives of the G7 Academies of Science...
The Academy of International Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia (AIA NRW) offers fellowships (in the form of buy-outs and stipends) for outstanding scholars and practitioners to spend time in Bonn, the German UN-City, to conduct projects that focus on important questions in...
The 2024 call for applications for the GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant is now open! Applications from GYA Members should be submitted by 16 June 2024. This grant scheme, introduced at the GYA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM), seeks to...
During the Joint Spring Reception of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Leopoldina Academy Friends’ Circle, incoming GYA member Jingyuan Xu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) was awarded the Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists for her...
The Olusegun Obasanjo Prize for Scientific Discovery and/or Technological Innovation is intended to reward and honour African scientists who have made outstanding contributions in scientific discovery or technological innovation. The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) seeks to promote and foster...
From 7-10 May 2024, distinguished early- to mid-career scientists and scholars from around the world will convene in Washington, D.C., for the GYA’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and International Conference of Young Scientists, which this year features a joint...
To better manage current and future uncertainties, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is advancing its science-based foresight and futures thinking work by establishing an institutionalised approach to strategic foresight and horizon scanning, to provide real-time monitoring of emerging signals...
On 12 March 2024, the First Meeting of the Iberoamerican Young Academies took place online with the main objective of seeking common points and building synergies. The meeting was attended by representatives of Young Academies or young academy initiatives: Young...
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