UN Secretary General Scientific Advisory Board Statement on Open Science
GYA Co-Chair Yensi Flores Bueso (University College Cork, Ireland) represented the GYA at the second annual retreat of the UN Secretary General’s Scientific Advisory Board (UN SAB) this September in New York, United States. Members of the UN SAB – representatives of scientific organizations from around the world – met in person to collaborate and […]
GYA releases Fukuoka Declaration on Science-Society Relationship
Fukuoka Declaration on Actions to Change the Relationship between Society and Science In June 2022, the Global Young Academy (GYA), in collaboration with the Young Academy of Japan, convened its members and alumni along with early-career researchers (ECRs), students, and science policy stakeholders from around the world to discuss ways to transcend disciplinary silos, spark […]
GYA represented at ISC 2021 General Assembly
In 2020, the GYA became an Affiliate Member of the International Science Council (ISC). The ISC strives to be the global voice for science, and promotes science as a global public good. The online General Assembly (GA) in October 2021 brought ISC members – international science unions, science academies and organisations – together to review […]
GYA member elected as INGSA Vice President for Capacity Building
In early September, the 2021 INGSA International Conference on Science Advice to Governments took place as a hybrid meeting. The conference with the theme “INGSA2021: Build Back Wiser: Knowledge, Policy and Publics in Dialogue” focused on improving our understanding of the changing nature and contexts of work at the interface between science and public policy, […]
JSPG and GYA hold International Science Policy Memo Writing Workshop
Together with the Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG), the GYA’s Science Advice Working Group held a joint virtual science policy memo writing workshop for early career researchers all across the globe in May 2021. The workshop aimed to equip early career researchers with the essential tools needed to write effective policy memos. Over the […]
GYA 2021 AGM and International Conference “Trust in Science”
The GYA held its second online Annual General Meeting from 1-4 June, together with an online International Conference of Young Scientists on the topic “Trust in Science”, which was open to public participation. Over 170 GYA members and alumni and over 490 external guests from 114 countries registered to take part in sessions throughout the […]
GYA-ISC Dialogue on Rethinking Human Development
In cooperation with the International Science Council (ISC), the GYA held an interactive webinar on “Rethinking Human Development” on 7 December 2020. Under the auspices of the GYA’s Science Advice Working Group, GYA member Binyam Sisay Mendisu (UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa, Ethiopia), who served as a steering committee member of the […]
Online training on Strategic Foresight for Early-Career Researchers
Considering the relevance and importance of foresight literacy nowadays, the GYA Science Advice Working Group have recently organised and carried out a Workshop on Strategic Foresight for Early-Career Researchers to look at exploring, anticipating, and shaping the future in a world that is changing faster than ever before. Futurist experts from Policy Horizon Canada, a […]
Young Academy Finland releases policy brief on science advice
The Young Academy Finland (YAF) have recently finished their “Young Researchers as Knowledge Brokers” project that aimed at developing new approaches for organising the coordination of knowledge exchange on different science-policy interfaces. The project’s main findings are gathered in the academy’s first-ever policy brief titled ”How to Build a Reciprocal Relationship Between […]
GYA Science Advice working group members help shape the G20 Science 20 Summit
In September, the S20 (an engagement group of the G20 established in 2017) was hosted by Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the chairmanship of Anas Alfaris. The theme for S20 in 2020 is “Foresight: Science for Navigating Critical Transitions,” the intent of which is to underline how science can […]
The Future of Independent Science Advice in the EU Ecosystem
On 27 May 2020, the Young Academy Finland (YAF) and the Belgian Young Academy co-organised a webinar on “The Future of Independent Science Advice in the EU Ecosystem: How to make sure that research synthesis reports are read?”. The event was facilitated amd moderated by Kaskas Media, and included participants from young academies, governments, European […]
Young Researchers as Knowledge Brokers: project by the Young Academy Finland
Inspired by and in conjunction with the Finnish EU Presidency, the Young Academy Finland have started to gather information from European young academies on their science-policy interface activities. This work is done under the new “Young Researchers as Knowledge Brokers” project, which will run from September 2019 until August 2020. The Young Academy Finland’s (YAF) […]