Global Young Academy

The Global Young Academy is an international society of early-career scientists.[1][2][3][4]

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Organization and membership

The academy is modeled after the German Junge Akademie and similar organizations in The Netherlands and Sudan.[1][2] It has working groups on science education, science and society, early career development, and interdisciplinary issues.[2]

The typical age of members is approximately 35 years old; members are expected to be several years past their doctoral studies.[2][5] The number of members is capped at 200, and each scientist is limited to a four-year term of membership. Memberships are offered based on scientific excellence, after a process of nominations from senior scientists, national societies, and self-nominations, together with peer review by members and senior scientists.[2][6] As of March 2011 there were nearly 150 members.[2]

History

The Global Young Academy was founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, after a preliminary organizational meeting in 2008 sponsored by the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues and the World Economic Forum and a second organizational meeting in 2009 in Dalian, China.[1][3][7] Its founding co-chairs are Gregory Weiss, a chemist from the University of California, Irvine, USA, and Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri from the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Thailand.[2][3][8][9]

Goals

The academy aims to bring together young scientists to solve global problems and policy issues that require interdisciplinary expertise,[1][3] to encourage young people to enter scientific careers,[1][10] to promote a scientific culture in which excellence in research is more highly valued than seniority,[1][5] and to improve the foundations of science worldwide by providing encouragement and recognition to researchers in countries with underdeveloped national scientific programs.[2][5] In support of these goals, it has also helped to establish several national young academies.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Brück, Tilman; Beaudry, Catherine; Hilgenkamp, Hans; Karoonuthaisiri, Nitsara; Salah el Din Mohamed, Hiba; Weiss, Gregory A. (April 2010), "Empowering Young Scientists", Science 328 (5974): 17, doi:10.1126/science.1185745 .
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Jones, Nicola (March 2011), "Homecoming queen: Global Young Academy co-chair says the organization can help reintegrate western-educated scientists", Nature, doi:10.1038/news.2011.126 .
  3. ^ a b c d e Vasich, Tom (April 2010), Early career scientists unite: Global Young Academy, co-chaired by UCI chemist Gregory Weiss, supports, gives voice to world’s junior researchers, University of California, Irvine, http://uci.edu/2010/04/feature_gya_100406.php, retrieved 2011-03-22 .
  4. ^ Alberts, Bruce (2011), "The Young Academy Movement", Science 332 (6027): 283, doi:10.1126/science.1206690 .
  5. ^ a b c Brüning, Anne (April 13, 2010), ""Mehr Freiraum für junge Talente": Tilman Brück vom Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung über junge Wissenschaftler, die alternde Gesellschaft und wer als Top-Nachwuchforscher gelten kann" (in German), Frankfurter Rundschau, http://www.fr-online.de/wissenschaft/-mehr-freiraum-fuer-junge-talente-/-/1472788/2849408/-/index.html .
  6. ^ Brück, Tilman; Beaudry, Catherine; Hilgenkamp, Hans; Kassen, Rees; Karoonuthaisiri, Nitsara; Salah el Din Mohamed, Hiba; Weiss, Gregory A. (August 2010), "Response—The Time of Young Scientists", Science 329 (5992): 626–627, doi:10.1126/science.329.5992.626-b .
  7. ^ Tickner, James (2010), "The Launch of the Global Young Academy", Australian Quarterly 82 (1): 18–21, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=149232448420944;res=IELHSS .
  8. ^ BIOTEC researcher elected founding co-chair of Global Young Academy (GYA), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, April 2010, http://www.biotec.or.th/biotechnology-en/en/Newsdetail.asp?id=6118, retrieved 2011-03-22 .
  9. ^ Chandrapanya, Klomjit, "One to Watch: She is just a few years out of school, and already Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri is head of the government’s first microarray lab, and helping the next wave of even younger scientists achieve the same success", The Scientist, http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/supplementarticle.jsp?name=thailand&id=57317, retrieved 2011-03-22 .
  10. ^ Atukorala, Sunethra (2010), "Promoting research among young scientists in Sri Lanka", Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka 38 (4): 211–212, http://www.sljol.info/index.php/JNSFSL/article/view/2646 .

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