Presenter: Moritz Riede GYA Executive Committee Member

1. The Global Young Academy
SVI-GYA Workshop
Bangkok, Thailand, 08 March 2017
Moritz Riede
GYA Executive Committee Member

2. 1. The Global Young Academy (GYA)
2. GYA Activities
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3. • Vision:
To be the voice of young scientists around the world
• Mission:
– Empower outstanding early-career researchers to lead
international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue,
both with each other and with external stakeholders
– Develop, connect and mobilise young talent from six
continents
– Promote reason and inclusiveness in global decision-making
– Create a better world
GYA Vision and Mission
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4. • A worldwide network
of 200 members and
134 alumni from 70
countries
• Selection criteria
• Research
excellence
• Commitment to
service/outreach
to further society
• Median age ~37y
• 36% female, 64%
male
• 5y membership term
The Global Young Academy
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Membership by Discipline

6. • Co-Chairs
– Mari-Vaughn Johnson (USA)
– Orakanoke Phanraksa (Thailand)
• Executive Committee
– Ali Douraghy (USA)
– Fridah Erastus (Kenya)
– Martin Dominik (UK)
– Moritz Riede (UK)
– S Karly Kehoe (Canada)
– Samuel Sojinu (Nigeria)
– Shamsun Nahar Khan
(Bangladesh)
– Thomas Edison Dela Cruz
(Philippines)
– Yusuf Baran (Turkey)
• Immediate Past Co-Chair
– Eva Alisic (Australia)
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GYA Executive Committee
(2016-2017)

7. 1) Prof Bruce Alberts, Former Editor of Science
2) Prof Howard Alper, Chair of Science, Technology and Innovation
Council of Canada & past Co-Chair of IAP
3) Prof Yuko Harayama, Executive Member of the Council for
Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) at the Cabinet Office,
Japan
4) Prof Mohammed Hassan, TWAS Executive Director a.i., President
of the Sudanese Academy of Science, Past President of IAP
5) Prof Helmut Schwarz, President of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Germany, fellow of the BBAW and Leopoldina
6) Prof Kevin Marsh, Senior Advisor to the African Academy of
Science, and Chair of the WHO Malaria policy advisory committee
7) Prof Maria Ivanova, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of
the UN Secretary General and a Board member of the UN
University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
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GYA Advisory Board

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GYA Office
Managing Director
Dr. Beate Wagner
Financial and
Membership Officer
Lukas Bartak
Project Officer
Anna-Maria Gramatté
Project Officer
Jennifer Plaul
GloSYS Researcher
Marie Luise Neumann

9. 1. The Global Young Academy (GYA)
2. GYA Activities
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10. GYA Themes
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Incubator

11. • Leopoldina nominated GYA
members
• Sherien Elagroudy and Rees
Kaasen spoke at the Inaugural
meeting, addressing
– Open access
– Building public trust in
decision making
– More direct engagement of
scientists in decision making
➔ GYA attendance at all
subsequent UN SAB meetings
➔ Path to further UN contributions
and collaborations
UN Scientific Advisory
Board
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Sherien Elagroudy
and Ban Ki-Moon

12. • Project examining the challenges
young researchers face in their
home countries in regions
• First report launched in 2014
• Identified issues:
– Mentoring and support
structures
– Focused training
– Transparency and fairness
– Working conditions
– Cultivating values
Global State of Young
Scientists (GloSYS)
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➔ GloSYS regional studies
started in Africa and
ASEAN region

13. • Building on GloSYS-results and
addressing
– Mentoring
– Support structures
to build capacity
➔ African Science Leadership
Program (ASLP), co-developed
with Uni. of Pretoria
– 1y program, ~20 scholars
– 3y funded by Robert Bosch
Foundation
Science Leadership
Programs
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ASLP Cohort 2015
➔ ASEAN SLP launched in
June 2016
– 1y program, 16
scholars
– funded by NSTDA

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NYA Development

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NYA Development 2017

16. Blue print for the establishment of a NYA
Worldwide Meetings of Young Academies
• 1st meeting: Symposium “Shaping the Future of Young
Academies” co-organized by Dutch Young Academy and GYA,
31 October – 1 November 2012 in Amsterdam
• 2nd meeting: 16-18 November 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden,
Joint Conference with JRC: Science Support for Sustainable
Development
• 3rd meeting: scheduled for 2017 in South Africa
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GYA Support for NYAs

17. • Contribution to consultations of the European Commission on
– Open Data & Open Access with other NYAs, incl. Junge Akademie
– Altimetrics
• Workshops & reports on
– Solid Waste Management with IAP in Halle (incl. report)
– Refugee Crisis with Dutch NYA in Amsterdam
– Broadening the scope of science advice with INSGA and JRC in
Brussels
• Young Science Ambassador Program
• Science Game “Expedition Mundus”
• Publication of “Words of Wisdom”
• JRC-GYA Project “Invisible Worlds”
• Invited to Advisory Board of UN Major Group for Children and Youth
• ...
Further Examples of recent
Impacts
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Further International
Cooperation Partners

19. • BMBF – Core-funding (2014-20), GloSYS project
• IAP – Co-funding the AGMs (mainly travel), PR and networking
activities, Solid Waste Management project
• Leopoldina – strengthening African Academies (2015-2018)
• STI / NSTDA Thailand – GloSYS ASEAN project (2014), ASEAN
Science Leadership Program (2016), EC Meeting (2016)
• Bosch Foundation – Africa Regional Conferences (2014 and
2016) and African Science Leadership Program (2015)
• Volkswagen Foundation – GYA seed-funding (2011-2013), and
project funding for the GloSYS workshop
• INGSA – Pre-conference workshop (2016)
• Various national academies or other donors – hosting and co-
funding the AGMs and other meetings
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Financial Support

20. Thank You!
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