Welcome GYA New Members 2021!
The Global Young Academy is pleased to welcome 31 new members to its ranks. All new members were inaugurated at the opening of this year’s electronic Annual General Meeting (e-AGM) on 1 June 2021. The GYA new member cohort includes representatives from 28 individual countries, from all GYA general disciplines, and includes 19 females and […]
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 […]
Trust in Climate Science panel starts International Conference
An online satellite panel and discussion on “Trust in Climate Science” opened the Global Young Academy’s 2021 International Conference of Young Scientists on the topic of “Trust in Science”. Moderated by Leila Niamir (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany), the panel discussion featured insights from experts in oceanography, physics, science policy […]
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 […]
Capacity-building continues to be a cornerstone of the GYA
The GYA and its members have embraced the opportunity to meaningfully collaborate online by organising and participating in a number of international, thematic workshops and capacity-building initiatives for its members and alumni, as well as for early-career researchers (ECRs) from the global network of Young Academies. Online skills training workshops from the last quarter of […]
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 […]
COVID-19 in Latin America, perspectives from young scientists webinar report
On 14 May 2020, members of the GYA organised a webinar in Spanish titled “COVID-19 in Latin America, perspectives from young scientists”. This event brought together six Latin American natural scientists – all members of the GYA – to discuss with the general public their perspectives on this crisis. Moderated by Felix Moronta (International Centre […]
Trust in (Young) Scientists group attracts Volkswagen grant
The GYA working group on “Trust in (Young) Scientists” has attracted a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation for its video project on “Science ∞ Society: Video tutorials on science ethics and science communication”. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the German National Institute for Science Communication (NaWik), and runs for the period […]
Trust in (Young) Scientists organize science communication webinar
On 11 December, the GYA working group Trust in (Young) Scientists offered a two-hour webinar on “Science communication through blogs and video blogs”, organised by the group’s co-lead Lisa Herzog (Netherlands). GYA members and alumni, as well as members from a number of National Young Academies participated. The instructors, Tobias Maier and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, started […]
GYA and Young Academies play crucial roles at the World Science Forum 2019
The 2019 World Science Forum (WSF) brought together over one thousand scientists and scholars, policymakers, society, industry and science communicators to discuss ‘Science, Ethics and Responsibility’ in Budapest, Hungary from 20-23 November 2019. At least one early- to mid-career researcher spoke on each of the five plenary sessions at the Forum. The high rate of […]
Science leadership workshop at World Science Forum 2019
Leading up to the 2019 World Science Forum on the topic of Science, Ethics and Responsibility in Budapest, Hungary, 43 young scientists and scholars from 23 countries participated in a 1.5 day science leadership workshop, co-organized by the Global Young Academy (GYA), the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The workshop, facilitated […]