GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant 2022 – open for applications
The 2022 call for applications for the GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant is now open! Applications should be submitted by Sunday, 3 July 2022. This grant scheme, introduced at the GYA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM), seeks to support the development of small-scale, innovative, curiosity-driven, blue-sky, exploratory research pilots or prototypes that unite researchers […]
GYA awards Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant 2021/22
The 2021-22 GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant has been awarded to Paulina Carmona-Mora (University of California-Davis, USA) and Bernardo Urbani (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research), and project co-applicants Sandra López Vergès (Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies, Panama), Iwona Janicka (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Cristina Blanco Sío-López (Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy), for the narrative […]
GYA side event at Latin America and the Caribbean Open Science Forum reveals challenges faced by early-career researchers in the region
The GYA and the Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) research team organised the panel event ‘Research in LAC: Leading the Push for Inclusion of Early-Career Researchers’ as part of the Latin America and the Caribbean Open Science Forum 2021 (CILAC). The first session on 27 April discussed the conceptualisation of early-career researchers (ECRs) in […]
GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant 2021 – open for applications
The 2021 call for applications for the GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant is now open! Applications should be submitted by Sunday, 20 June 2021. This grant scheme, introduced at the GYA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM), seeks to support the development of small-scale, innovative, curiosity-driven, blue-sky, exploratory research pilots or prototypes that unite researchers in low/middle-income […]
COVID-19 threatens to lead to a “lost generation” of researchers: IAP and GYA issue joint communique
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Global Young Academy (GYA) lay out recommendations to mitigate the harms of COVID-19 and seize on the opportunities to improve higher education systems around the world. Read the communique here https://interacademies.org/COVID_education On 16 March 2020 the world started to shut down to curb the spread of COVID-19. One year […]
‘COVID-19 and Art’ project visualises dataset
‘The COVID-19 pandemic and art (19andART)’ project, funded by the 2020/21 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant, has produced a database prototype, visualising the geographic and time information of COVID19-related art on an openly accessible website, as the first step of an exploratory analysis. In an interim report, the project group describes the focus of their data […]
GYA and NYAs organise New Voices in Global Health @ World Health Summit
GYA Global Health working group members and members of National Young Academies and similar early to mid-career scientist networks organised and contributed to a New Voices in Global Health session about “Perspectives and responses of young scientists to the coronavirus pandemic” at the digital World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany, in October 2020. The session […]
GYA Conference Statement emphasises collaboration to help meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
GYA members and young scientists around the globe propose cross-disciplinary solutions in a Conference Statement published following the recent virtual conference “Heal the Earth: Sustainable Development Goals in a Changing World”. With this Conference Statement, the GYA emphasises the need for continued global collaboration, and calls upon academics, businesses, foundations, governments, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, […]
GYA awards North-South Interdisciplinary Grant 2020/21
The 2020-21 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant has been awarded to Stefan Kohler (Germany), Mohamed Elhadidy (Egypt), Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (Bangladesh, Canada), Cristina Blanco Sío-López (USA), Paul Mason (Australia), Andreea Molnar (Australia), Xuan Bach Tran (Vietnam) for the research project: The COVID-19 pandemic and art (19and.ART). Read more about their project here. About the GYA North-South […]
“Heal the Earth”: 2020 virtual International Conference
While the COVID-19 pandemic is currently in focus, ongoing problems such as climate change, biodiversity losses, groundwater depletion, pollution and antibiotic resistance, also require collaborative efforts across sectors, disciplines and borders to find and implement solutions. While overall global income inequality has been decreasing, the economic divide within some societies is widening. Issues of food […]
Three new GYA Focus Areas
At the e-Annual General Meeting in June 2020, GYA members discussed a number of topics and decided on three focus areas as priority topics for the GYA in 2020/21. Addressing systemic discrimination This GYA Focus Area, which runs under the Science & Society theme, starts from the commitment that the GYA should work against […]
LIVE WRAP-UP 9 July 12:00 UTC: Engagement at Large: Communicating Science to and with the Public
CONTENT: With COVID-19, the need for effective science communication is clear including the need to counter misinformation, and to make findings accessible and relevant to local contexts. But how can scientists communicate other challenges that are related to achieving the SDGs, ranging from education, poverty, health to environment? Here’s the video from the LIVE session […]