GYA Working Groups and Incubators in 2021

For the 2021 funding period, GYA members will continue to be active in 17 working groups and three Incubators within the three GYA Themes of Science & Society, Research Environment, and Science Education and Outreach. The Critical Experiments incubator group, which was established in January 2020, will continue to operate in 2021. In addition to […]

GYA Bio2Bio working group members contribute to two publications, help organize international forum

In connection with the Second World Young Scientist Summit in Wenzhou, China, GYA alumnus and former Biodiversity working group co-lead Alexander Kagansky (Far Eastern Federal University of Vladivostok, Russia) led the organisation of the International Forum of Biodiversity, Biomedicing, Biotechnology, Biosecurity (4Bio) in September 2020. In order to better implement the UN SDGs by 2030, […]

GYA contributes to three new G-Science Academies statements

Science and medical academies from the G-7 countries and seven additional academies, including the Global Young Academy (GYA), have issued three joint statements to advise the G-7 process, and to inform ongoing policy-making and public discussion. The three joint statements are titled “Digital Health and the Learning Health System”, “Basic Research”, and “Global Insect Declines […]

GYA Working Groups and Incubators in 2020

For the 2020 funding period, GYA members will continue to be active in 17 working groups and three Incubators within the three GYA Themes of Science & Society, Research Environment, and Science Education and Outreach. A fourth Incubator – on Critical Experiments – has been set up and is being led by Anna Harris (Netherlands) […]

GYA Bio2Bio Co-Lead participates in discussions at Eastern Economic Forum

For the first time, scientists from Russia and China discussed environmental management on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which was held from 4-6 September 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia. Discussions focused on the path of biodiversity conservation in the Far East. The biodiversity discussion was placed within the agenda of the 8th Asia-Pacific […]

Bio2Bio needs your help – please share this video!

The Global Young Academy is home to visionaries and dreamers who invest their spare time into projects aiming to change the world. Right now, one of those projects urgently needs your help to tell our story. The Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine (Bio2Bio) working group has evolved into a truly global academic consortium working to […]