Young Scientists at Lindau Nobel Meeting 2023

Three GYA members participated in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, held in June 2023. GYA alumni Suraj Bhattarai (Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Nepal) and Huanyu Cheng (Pennsylvania State University, USA) had been selected as in-person participants from among GYA nominees in 2020, and their participation was postponed due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.  New GYA […]

3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR)

From 14-18 March 2015, prospective Global Young Academy (GYA) member Eijiro Sumii (Japan) attended the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR). Eijiro Sumii was part of the Science and Technology Major Group. Major Groups are representing various societal stakeholders such as women, children and youth, NGOs or Science and Technology. These groups […]

GYA Connections – Issue 1 online

We are proud to release the first issue of our magazine “GYA Connections”. In this issue you will find several reports about the GYA General Assembly 2013. Guru Madhavan gives advice on how to avoid the “postdoc trap”, Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq reports on the effect of free journal access on scientific productivity in Bangladesh, […]

The Global Young Academy (GYA) Recommends Measures to Foster a Global Research Culture

The Global Young Academy today issued a position statement that identifies key challenges to achieving a global research culture and proposes concrete measures to confront them in the future. The GYA recognises that major steps have been taken to promote the development of excellent research and widespread education around the world over the past few […]

Meeting Report of the GloSYS Workshop now online

In May 2013, the Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) held an expert workshop in Hannover, Germany. Read about the prominent speakers and fruitful discussions, learn of its outcomes and conclusions, and get an impression by looking at the picture in the official Meeting Report. Please click here for the full report. For more information, […]