Global Young Academy

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Global Young Academy
(GYA)
logo
founding 2010
purpose Academy of Science
Action space worldwide
Chair Connie Nshemereirwe, Koen Vermeir (Co-Chairs)
Managing directors Beate Wagner
Members 200
Website www.globalyoungacademy.net
Members and alumni of the Global Young Academy on the occasion of the anniversary annual general meeting 2019 in the Leopoldina in Halle.

The Global Young Academy (GYA) is an international society of young scientists with the aim of giving young scientists a voice around the world.

The number of members is limited to 200. Membership lasts 5 years.

Organization and membership

The Global Young Academy aims to promote cooperation and dialogue on an international, cross-generational and interdisciplinary level.

The GYA includes working groups dedicated to the subjects of natural science education, science and society, career advancement for young scientists and interdisciplinary topics.

The board of the Global Young Academy 2019/2020, together with the managing director and other employees of the office.

The typical age of the members is around 35 years. Members should have completed their PhD several years ago. The number of members is limited to 200, membership ends after five years. Members are selected on the basis of scientific excellence and their contribution to society. At the beginning of the selection process there is a process of nominations by high-ranking scientists, national science academies or the applicants themselves. This is followed by a peer review process by existing members. The GYA reached its full capacity of 200 members in 2014. There are also 258 alumni. As of 2019, 83 countries are represented in the GYA.

The GYA office is located at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) .

history

The Global Young Academy was founded in Berlin in 2010 after a previous organizational meeting in 2008, which was sponsored by the InterAcademy Panel and the World Economic Forum , and a second organizational meeting in 2009 in Dalian , China. The first co-chairs after the establishment were Gregory Weiss, chemist at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri from the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Thailand . The co-chairs who left in 2018 are Tolullah Oni and Connie Nshemereirwe, Actualize Africa, Uganda. The current (2019) Co-Chairs are Connie Nshemereirwe and Koen Vermeir.

The GYA works closely with almost all major scientific organizations around the world, such as UNESCO , the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary General, the ISC (formerly ICSU), the IAP, the Global Research Council, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission , the World Science Forum and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The GYA is actively involved in building national young academies around the world.

In addition, the GYA developed several international research projects and campaigns. The GYA was invited to join the Advisory Board of the UN Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY). Since 2019 GYA has been a full member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a worldwide network of 138 academies for science, technology and medicine.


List of co-chairs

2010/11 Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri & Gregory A Weiss

2011/12 Bernard Slippers & Gregory A Weiss

2012/13 Rees Kassen & Bernard Slippers

2013/14 Rees Kassen & Sameh H Soror

2014/15 Sameh H Soror & Eva Alisic

2015/16 Eva Alisic & Orakanoke Phanraksa

2016/17 Orakanoke Phanraksa & Mari-Vaughn Johnson

2017/18 Tolullah Oni & Moritz Riede

2018/19 Tolullah Oni & Connie Nshemereirwe

2019/20 Connie Nshemereirwe & Koen Vermeir

aims

The Academy seeks to bring young academics together to solve global problems and policy issues that require interdisciplinary expertise, encourage young people to pursue academic careers, promote a science culture in which excellence in research is valued higher than seniority and base of the Improve science worldwide by providing support and recognition to researchers in countries with backward national scientific programs.

One focus of the GYA is the active promotion of the expansion of the global network of (national) young academies around the world. Since 2010, 36 national young academies have been founded. Since 2019 there have been 41 of these and more than 10 similar institutions worldwide, and more are about to be founded. The GYA supports joint projects as well as regional and global meetings of young academies.

Well-known members

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilman Brück, Catherine Beaudry, Hans Hilgenkamp, ​​Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri, Mohamed Salah el Din and Gregory A. Weiss: Empowering Young Scientists . In: Science . tape 328 , no. 5974 , April 2010, p. 1 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1185745 , PMID 20360070 .
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  3. ↑ a b c d e UC Irvine Feature: Global Young Academy. April 8, 2013, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ Bruce Alberts: The Young Academy Movement . In: Science . tape 332 , no. 6027 , April 15, 2011, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 283–283 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1206690 , PMID 21493825 ( sciencemag.org [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  5. ^ M. Sutherland, J. Garcia-Martinez: The Global Young Academy: Providing a Voice for Young Scientists in the Sustainability Debate . In: CHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL . tape 35 , no. 1 , 2013, ISSN  0193-6484 , p. 4–7 ( tib.eu [accessed December 5, 2019]).
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  7. ↑ a b c News from Germany and the world | Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  8. ^ Tilman Brück, Catherine Beaudry, Hans Hilgenkamp, ​​Rees Kassen, Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri: Response — The Time of Young Scientists . In: Science . tape 329 , no. 5992 , August 6, 2010, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 626–627 , doi : 10.1126 / science.329.5992.626-b ( sciencemag.org [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  9. ↑ a b c d Tilman Brück, Catherine Beaudry, Hans Hilgenkamp, ​​Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri, Hiba Salah-Eldin Mohamed: Empowering Young Scientists . In: Science . tape 328 , no. 5974 , April 2, 2010, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 17–17 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1185745 , PMID 20360070 ( sciencemag.org [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  10. ^ James Tickner: The Launch of the Global Young Academy . In: AQ - Australian Quarterly . tape 82 , no. 1 , 2010, p. 18 ( com.au [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  11. ^ New Executive Committee and Co-Chairs elected at AGM 2018. May 10, 2018, accessed December 5, 2019 (American English).
  12. ↑ Global Young Academy named a full member of the InterAcademy Partnership. April 11, 2019, Retrieved December 5, 2019 (American English).
  13. ↑ Promoting research among young scientists in Sri Lanka | Atukorala | Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. July 23, 2011, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  14. ^ National Young Academies. Retrieved December 5, 2019 (American English).