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GYA member Mona Khoury-Kassabri from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, hosted a GYA Young Scientist Ambassador Programme (YSAP) mission in June 2019. GYA member Mahesh Kumar, a professor of Microelectronics at the Indian Institute of…

The Fourth Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies took place in Da Nang, Vietnam, from 31 July – 2 August 2019, hosted by the Vietnam Young Academy (VYA) and co-organised by the GYA.…

On 8 August, GYA members from Japan Wataru Iwasaki and Yoko Shimpuku met the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, and the Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Mr Takuya Hirai,…

The 2019-20 GYA North-South Interdisciplinary Grant has been awarded to Ibrahim Sidi Zakari (Niger), Robert Lepenies (Germany) and Lisa Herzog (Germany) for the project: Citizen Science for Reducing Exposure to Urban Air Pollution. In this project, they will…

Preparing your application for the Global Young Academy (GYA): 9 tips to make sure you put in a competitive application! We are delighted that you are planning to submit an…

You want to make an impact in the world and engage, outside the walls of the lab, academia or industry. We are in a particular historical moment where young people, especially…

Exactly 50 years after the original Woodstock festival was held in New York, the Science + Arts = Peace + Justice working group presented Vladiwoodstock, the first international and interspecies festival, based…

The National Academy of Young Scientists (NAYS) Pakistan celebrated 10 years of success on 14 August  2019. The foundation of NAYS was laid in August 2009 by dedicated young scientists of Pakistan,…

In August, Abdalhadi Alijla (Sweden), co-lead of the GYA Global Migration and Human Rights working group participated in the Eleventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies in Helsinki, Finland. During the Conference on “Breaking…

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…