Co-Chair represents GYA at Hong Kong YA Summit
In early December, GYA Co-Chair Felix Moronta (ICGEB, Italy) participated in the first Young Academy of Sciences Summit (YASS), organised by the Hong Kong Young Academy, established in 2019. During the session titled “Success Stories of How Young Academies Groom Young Scientists into World-Class Academicians”, he delivered a presentation entitled “Empowering World Academicians: A Journey […]
November 2023 News from the Young Academies
Future Events YAE session about institutional and departmental young academies The Young Academy of Europe is organising a webinar about the functioning and best practices of institutional and departmental young academies on 28 November 2023 from 14:30-15:30 UTC. – For details, and to register, see their website here. Open Science Lecture in December The Open […]
Maral Dadvar represents GYA in Arab-German Young Academy panel
As part of the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA) Annual Spring Conference held at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, GYA alumna and former EC member Maral Dadvar (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) was an invited panelist for the public session titled “The Academy of Tomorrow – Many Routes to Many Futures.” Panelists, who also included […]
New IAP Leadership includes GYA representation
As a member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the GYA nominated several of its members to IAP leadership and committee positions. Following an online election in summer 2022, IAP member academies elected the 2022-2024 Governance and at their recent General Assembly in Arizona, USA, successful candidates were announced. For the first time, the GYA will […]
February 2022 news from the Young Academies
Your input needed: the pandemic and Young Academies Last month we asked Young Academies the world over to share their experiences after two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of interesting replies have come in, and we would be interested to hear back from more of you. We will then share feedback on trends […]
Two Open Science publications in CODATA
Members of the GYA working group on Open Science, together with members from the Global working group on Open Science, have led the publication of two articles on Open Science in CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), one on “Open Science – For Whom?” and another on “Barriers to Full Participation […]
Largest-ever online meeting of Young Academies
The second online meeting of Young Academies from around the world took place on 30 September 2021. The meeting was the largest gathering of young academies so far, with more than 70 representatives from 50 young academies and initiatives (see here for a current list of young academies). The GYA was represented by EC members Lahcen El […]
2021 European Young Academies meeting
Young Academies from all over Europe met virtually on 7-8 May 2021. The meeting, organised and hosted by the Young Academy of Scotland, brought together representatives from 15 young academies and academy initiatives. The GYA was represented by Executive Committee member Maral Dadvar (Stuttgart Media University, Germany); several more GYA members participated wearing their respective […]
Postponed – Science Leadership in South Asia: call for participants
This workshop has been postponed, and will take place later in 2021. Once new dates have been set, these will be posted here. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Everything falls and rises on leadership. This is true even for research teams or institutes. The performance of a scientist or researcher or research institute depend to a large extent on […]
Global Young Academy achieves gender parity of membership with new member cohort
Under the leadership of Leila Niamir (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany) the 69-member Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) has finalised the selection of 31 new members to join the GYA in June 2021 for a tenure of five years. The GYA new member cohort includes representatives from […]
D. R. Congo Young Academy of Sciences launched
In November 2020, the D. R. Congo Young Academy of Sciences (DRC-YAS) was officially launched at the Université Panafricaine de Gouvernance et Innovation (UPGI) in Kinshasa, DRC. The launching ceremony was partially supported by the German-Congolese NGO Förderverein Uni Kinshasa e.V., as well as the university’s administration committee. In the presence of a number of […]
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 […]