SAPEA Workshop on strengthening inter-academy cooperation

Bucharest on 16-17 October 2017

Patrizio ANTICI (GYA Executive Committee member)

Challenges and opportunities from

different academies

• Vision

– To be the voice of young scientists around the world, make global decision making evidence-based and inclusive

• 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 all continents

– Promote reason and inclusiveness in global decision-making

– Create a better world

• Strategic Targets

– Contribute to efforts to address societal challenges (Global Challenges)

– Identify, develop, and nurture global science leaders

– Maximise the potential of National Young Academies

– Provide benchmark reports on science policy topics relevant for young scientists

– Serve as an outstanding example for interdisciplinary, intergenerational, collaborative and cross-cultural dialogue in science

GYA Vision and Mission

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The Global Young Academy

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• Officially funded 2010

• A worldwide network of 200 members and 134 alumni from 70 countries.

• Selection criteria

• Research excellence

• Commitment to service/outreach

• Median age ~37y

• 5y membership term (40 new entries per year)

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Who we are

32; 16,1%

61; 30,7%

7; 3,5%

29; 14,6%

1; 0,5%

11; 5,5%

58; 29,1%

Members by Continent 2017

Africa

Asia

Australia

North America

Central America

South America

Europe

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Who we are

35; 17,6%

19; 9,5%

11; 5,5%

28; 14,1%14; 7,0%

26; 13,1%

32; 16,1%

7; 3,5% 27; 13,6%

Members by Discipline 2017

Applied Sciences: Engineering

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

Health sciences, medicine

Humanities

Law, economics and socialsciencesLife Sciences

Mathematical Sciences

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Who we are

73; 36,7%

126; 63,3%

GYA Members by Sex 2017

female male

1. Be part of a large network working global

and in very diverse disciplines -> broaden

vision

2. Have a voice in a globalized environment

(even being young !)

3. Contribute to the advancement of society

(not only “writing articles”)

4. Be included in activities that you would not

(or less) participate as individual

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Opportunities (some)

1. Build a portfolio of activities of Global Interest

2. Being as inclusive as possible (disciplines+geographic)

3. Efficient organization (most are volunteers)

4. Keep the members active (members are working on volunteering basis)

5. Put together people from different cultures and disciplines

6. Promote the Academy and its importance

7. Secure Funding

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Challenges

Build

Engage

Promote

Support

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1. Build - Organization

Executive Committee (9 members + 2 co-

chairs)

Portfolio 1 Portfolio 2 Portfolio 3

Activity/WG

Advisory Board

Office support

• Co-Chairs– Tolu Oni (South Africa)

– Moritz Riede (UK)

• Executive Committee– Patrizio Antici (Canada)

– Almas Taj Awan (Brazil)

– Anna Coussens (South Africa)

– Laura Fierce (USA)

– Alexander Kagansky (UK)

– S. Karly Kehoe (Canada)

– Karen Lorimer (Scotland)

– Connie Nshemereirwe (Uganda)

– Samuel Sojinu (Nigeria)

• Immediate Past Co-Chair– Orakanoke Phanraksa (Thailand)

– Mari-Vaughn Johnson (USA)

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Executive Committee

Each member is responsible for one activity:1. Member diversity2. Member engagement3. Working group coordination4. Flagship projects5. New members6. Fundraising7. Media & communication8. AGM9. External partners & NYA

Members of the GYA Advisory Board

1. Prof Bruce Alberts; Immediate past Editor of Science

2. Prof Howard Alper; Chair of Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada & immediate 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; Co-Chair 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.

8. Dr Narong Sirilertworakul, President of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand

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Advisory Board

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Office

More details at https://intranet.globalyoungacademy.net/wiki/download-area/

Managing DirectorDr. Beate Wagner

Financial and Membership Officer Franziska Güntner

Project Officer Anna-Maria Gramatté

Project OfficerJennifer Plaul

Media OfficerKirsten Geithner

GloSYS ResearcherMarie Luise Neumann

Assistant Financial and MembershipSandra Heinrich

Office located in Germany c/o Leopoldina(German Academy of Sciences)

Portfolio-Themes

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Science & Society Research Environment

• Most critical point: Members are volunteers – are distributed – have

different priorities

• Annual General Meeting (biggest networking opportunity)

• Provide easy tools and instruments for fostering collaboration among

members

• Catalyze latent initiatives (of members, of groups, of Academies)

• Provide funding for specific activities

• Promote among members opportunities and activities that can be relevant

2. Engage

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Annual Meeting

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2018 Forever Young? Sustainable and healthy longevity through science and technology

2017 Bridging Worlds Through Science’

• Project examining the challenges young researchers face in their home countries in regions

• First precursor study launched in 2014

• Latest area specific GloSYSASEAN report launched in 2017

• Identified issues:– Mentoring and support structures

– Focused training

– Transparency and fairness

– Working conditions

– Cultivating values

➢ A regional GloSYSStudy is presently in progress in 14 African States

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Flagship initiatives (started from few

members): Global State of Young Scientists

(GloSYS)

• Importance of fundamental Science (Canada)

Fundamental Science

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• 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 Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary General meetings

➢ Path to further UN contributions and collaborations

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3. Promote: Participation with High-

level Institutions:

UN Scientific Advisory Board

• GYA invited to– Provide input for G7

communique

– Present at meeting

on the promotion of women in science and of young scientists

➢ Some of GYA recommendations incorporated into G7 statement and GYA explicitly mentioned

➢ GYA invited to submit concrete project proposals

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G7 Science & Technology

Ministers‘ Meeting

Ranjini Bandyopadhyay at the G7 meeting

GYA invited to

Contribute in the

Declaration of the

2015 Budapest

World Science

Forum on The

Enabling Power of

Science

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Invited at the WSF (2015-2017)

Newletter / Webpage

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Digital, about 1200 recipients (legal issues for larger advertisement); about 2 times per year (trying to increase)

Engagement with other international organizations

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Enhance Cooperation

• BMBF – Core-funding (2014-20), GloSYS project

(The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

• Various national academies or other donors – hosting and co-funding the

AGMs and other meetings

• STI / NSTDA Thailand – GloSYS ASEAN project (2014), ASEAN Science

Leadership Programme (2016)

• Bosch Foundation – Africa Regional Conferences (2014 and 2016)

• Volkswagen Foundation – GYA seed-funding (2011-2013), project

funding for the GloSYS workshop, funding for Worldwide Meeting of

Young Academies (2017)

• Individual (research) funds

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4: Support - Funding

The GYA provides advice and networks for National Young Academies (NYAs) (currently 33)

• Technical support and advice (Blueprint)

• Facilitate and support contacts with senior academies

• Missions to countries

• Sharing of best practices, liaising, projects

• Organising regional or global meetings

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Support - Enhance NYA

establishment

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: 19-21 July 2017 in Johannesburg, S. Africa

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GYA Support for NYA

Cooperation

Website

www.globalyoungacademy.net

Email

info@globalyoungacademy.net

Twitter

@GlobalYAcademy

Facebook

www.facebook.com/GYA.online

Get / Stay in touch!

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patrizio.antici@polytechnique.edu

Thank you for your attention

• Thank you for your attention

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Strategic Targets 2017-2020:

• Contribute to efforts to address societal challenges

(Global Challenges)

• Identify, develop, and nurture global science leaders

• Maximise the potential of National Young Academies

• Provide benchmark reports on science policy topics

relevant for young scientists

• Serve as an outstanding example for interdisciplinary,

intergenerational, collaborative and cross-cultural

dialogue in science

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5. Plans for the Future

• Support young scientists in career development and independence

• Engage in interdisciplinary, international and intergenerational dialogue on scientific issues

• Build science capacity in

the developing world

• Promote science education and science-policy integration

What we do

Portfolio–

Themes

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NYA Development 2009

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NYA Development 2017

Let’s get to know the GYA!

1. The Global Young Academy (GYA)

Who we are, What we do

How we do it

Financial support & cooperation

2. GYA Support for NYAs

NYA development

Worldwide meetings

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• Develop a global network

of young leaders in

science

• Comment and opinion via

position papers, op-eds,

etc…

• Advice and input to

international institutions

and fora

• Projects and activities

• Research studies

• Support National Young

Academies

Engage

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• Building on GloSYS-results and addressing– Mentoring

– Support structures

to build capacity

• African Science Leadership Programme (ASLP), co-developed with Uni. of Pretoria– 1y programme, ~20

scholars

– 3y funded by Robert Bosch Foundation

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Science Leadership

Programmes

First ASLP Cohort 2015

➢First ASEAN SLP in 2016

2nd Africa YAs Regional Conference24-26 October 2016 in MauritiusBrought together representatives from all African NYAs and NYA initiatives with the African senior academies and further young scientists

In order to:

• Engage and empower excellent young researchers from across Africa to address the challenges that impede scientificdevelopment towards a sustainablefuture for the region

• Adapt the NYA blueprint with advice and support for the foundation of a National Young Academy specifically for African NYAs

GYA YA cooperation in Africa

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• Support for the

establishment of further

NYAs in Africa

• Exchange between NYAs in

Africa

• Africa Science Leadership

Programme (ASLP)

• GloSYS Africa study

• Strengthening African

Science Academies

• 3nd Regional Conference

in Egypt 2018 and activities

in between

GYA YA cooperation Africa

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Follow-up from Africa Conference

The GYA

• invites NYAs to nominate their most able members for fascinating international fora or for

• projects in collaboration with eminent international science organisations

• Co-organizes meetings on topical issues of international societal relevance

GYA Opening International

Opportunities for NYAs

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Opportunities for international

engagement of NYAs

• Contribution to consultations of the European Commission on– Open Data & Open Access with other NYAs, incl. Junge Akademie

– Altimetrics

• Workshops 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 Programme

• 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

• Contribution to the Smart Villages Initiative through workshoporganisation

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Further Examples of Recent

Impacts