Our Work

• Find out more about Science Leadership for early-career researchers

  Early-career researches (ECRs) from around the world, including GYA members and alumni, share their experiences with science leadership training. They discuss the challenges ECRs face and how science leadership capabilities support positive and impactful actions, and describe their key learnings and how these apply in their careers.

• Solar cells – A video of the Advanced Functional Materials and Devices Group – University of Oxford

  A video of the Advanced Functional Materials and Devices Group - University of Oxford

  Group Leader: Professor Moritz Riede Department of Physics – University of Oxford

  https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research…

• TargetedResponse – University of Belgrade

  This video is about the project “Functional diagnostics in non-small cell lung carcinoma – a new concept for the improvement of personalized therapy in Serbian patients. University of Belgrad.

  This video was produced together with Dr. Milica Pešić, Head of Department –
  Research Professor – Department of Neurobiology – Institute for Biological Research – “Siniša Stanković” – National Institute of Republic of Serbia – University of Belgrade.
  It is about the project “Functional diagnostics in non-small cell lung carcinoma – a new concept for the improvement of personalized therapy in Serbian patients (TargetedResponse)”.

  The specific Call for project proposals was IDEAS and the grant is provided by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.

  It is always a pleasure to work and support passionate researchers!

• GYA and Science Leadership

  This brief video offers an introduction to the work of the Global Young Academy and its efforts to empower early-career researchers to become science leaders.

• Trust in (Young) Scientists

  Listen to these young scientists and learn more about their work, their questions and why they believe it is important what they are doing.

  Listen to these young scientists and learn more about their work, their questions and why they believe it is important what they are doing.

  We produced these four videos together with the Global Young Academy working group… “Trust in (Young) Scientists”.

  “Worldwide, there are worrying signs of falling trust in scientific knowledge. The denial of climate change, the anti-vaccine movement, and religious rejections of evolutionary biology are some of the most prominent examples, but they might be just the tip of an iceberg. The causes of this development are complex. But in an age of “hyperspecialization” (Millgram 2015), trust in scientific knowledge is essential: people simply cannot have expertise in all the areas that are relevant to their lives.

  It seems that one of the core issues of the problem is that the general public often knows very little about why it should trust scientists, and how much work and care go into establishing scientific claims.

  This GYA working group starts from the belief that by better explaining how science actually works, and by showing some of the faces behind the anonymous façade of “science”, trust can be regained.”

  https://globalyoungacademy.net/activities/trust-in-young-scientists/

• Global Young Academy Women in Science working group

  We produced this video together with the Members of the Global Young Academy Women in Science working group. Listen to these inspiring researchers. They speak about their work, motivations, and dreams.
  
  Learn more about the Global Young Academy here: globalyoungacademy.net/

• Global Health GYA Working Group

  This video was produced together with the Global Health Working Group of the Global Young Academy. The group is the voice of prominent young researchers from all over the world in discussions about global health policies (in relation to clinical medicine, public health, environmental health, and social studies of health and illness).

  If you want to find out more about it, here the link.

• Women in Science

  A short message to all young women by the amazing researchers in the Global Young Academy working group Women in Science.

  A short message to all young women by the amazing researchers in the Global Young Academy working group Women in Science.
  Learn more: globalyoungacademy.net/women-in-science/

• Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine (Bio2Bio)

  Here is our video about the fantastic Global Young Academy working group Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine (Bio2Bio).

  This GYA Working Group focuses on biodiversity conservation… from a biomedical perspective.
  The aims are to preserve knowledge about the medicinal properties of different species, create a global knowledge hub for biodiversity and biomedicine, and develop new pharmaceuticals from nature while protecting biodiversity.The loss of biodiversity minimises the potential for harvesting new medicines and for future medical discoveries. This is due to the interdependence of sustainability of the environment, human wellbeing, and the development of new public health practices. The actions of our group will mobilise the skills and expertise within the GYA to address this issue. In addition, the Bio2Bio incubator group aims to create practical recommendations for the sustainable use of Earth’s finite natural resources for healing purposes and requests the support from policymakers. With the expanding loss of biodiversity, we must act now to avoid losing new solutions for human-focused problems. Read more on the Global Young Academy website.

• New video concerning The Global State of Young Scientists released

  Watch our video about the amazing project The Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS), a research project initiated by the Global Young Academy investigating the community of young scientists in and from Africa.

  Watch our video about the amazing project The Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS), a research project initiated by the Global Young Academy investigating the community of young… scientists in and from Africa.

• Dr. Anindita Bhadra – My story

  Dr. Anindita Bhadra is a behavioural biologist, working with free-ranging (stray) dogs in India. While pet dogs are studied extensively and compared with wolves in order to understand the evolution of the dog-human relationship, free-ranging dogs in India provide the perfect model system for studying them in nature, and building an understanding of the intrinsic nature of dogs. As they have hardly been studied so far, Dr. Bhadra chose the dogs as a model system, shifting completely from her zone of training and comfort, social insects. This gave her the freedom to set up a research group from scratch, doing things that she had never done before, and exploring new vistas of research.

  Dr. Bhadra was involved in the founding of INYAS, and was elected as the first Chairperson by the founding members in June 2015.

  In June 2020 she was elected co-chair of the Global Young Academy. In this video, she shares her personal story.

  You can find out more about her here: https://globalyoungacademy.net/anindita-bhadra/

• Dr. Flávia Ferreira Pires – My story

  Dr Flávia Ferreira Pires is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil.

  She completed her bachelor degree in Social Sciences. She earned a Master´s and PhD degrees in Social Anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

  She became a professor at a young age. Since then, she has been leading various research projects, mainly aiming at understanding the everyday lives of children from their own perspectives and the macro structures that outline their existence. She has published over forty papers, book chapters, and books in influential periodicals and journals in Brazil and elsewhere.

  In this video, she shares her personal story.

  You can find out more about her here: https://globalyoungacademy.net/fpires/

• Dr. Arya Shalini Subash – My story

  Dr. Shalini S. Arya is currently an Assistant Professor at the Food Engineering and Technology Department Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. She works in the area of Indian traditional foods, in particular cereal-based staple foods such as chapatti, phulka, thepla, khakhara, thalipeeth, naan, and kulcha.

  Her work is focused on various aspects such as product development and standardization, nutritional improvement and characterization, chemistry and technology, staling, extension of shelf life using various technologies (MAP, oxygen scavenger, chemical, freezing, etc) for these products, all of which would have far-reaching significance in improving public health in India and that too based on the resources that are locally available and food staples that are regularly consumed by the locals. She has more than 50 publications in international journals of high repute. Thus, Dr. Shalini is indirectly contributing to improving the public health of the Indian population.

  In this video, she shares her personal story. The journey that started with the curiosity and the passion of a child.

  You can find out more about her here: https://globalyoungacademy.net/sarya/

• Dr. Eqbal Mohammed Abdu Dauqan – My story

  In 2012, Eqbal M.A. Dauqan received her Ph.D in Biochemistry from the School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia, sponsored by the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). Her main research interest is biochemistry, food antioxidants, and nutrition.

  Her thesis was awarded for being an excellent thesis. She was appointed as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, FST, UKM from July 2012 to July 2013. In July 2013 she was appointed as Senior lecturer at Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Al-Saeed University (SU) – Taiz, Yemen, where she became Head of the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department at the same Faculty.

  In 2014 Eqbal established a new program entitled Therapeutic Nutrition Department in, SU. She was selected as one of five winners of the 2014 Elsevier Foundation Award for Early Career Women Scientists in the developing countries (Chemical Sciences). Eqbal was selected to be a visiting scholar in UKM, Malaysia sponsored by IIE_SRF (USA) from Feb 2016 to Feb 2018.

  In February 2018, she affiliated with the Global Young Academy as a mentee in the At-Risk Scholar initiative. In September 2018, she had been selected as TWAS Young Affiliate for 2018-2022. Currently, Eqbal was appointed as an associate professor at the University of Agder (UIA), Kristiansand-Norway through the Scholar at Risk (SAR) Network, USA.

  In this video, she shares her personal story. The journey that started with the curiosity and the passion of a child.

  You can find out more about her here: https://globalyoungacademy.net/edauqan/

• The Global Young Academy – A short portrait.

  The Global Young Academy gives a voice to young scientists around the world. To realise this vision, we develop, connect, and mobilise young talent from six continents. Moreover, we empower young researchers to lead international, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational dialogue with the goal to make global decision making evidence-based and inclusive.

• Global Health 2019. Perspectives.

  This video was produced together with the Global Health Working Group of the Global Young Academy. What are the challenges? What is the future of Health from a global perspective? The Global Health Working Group is the voice of prominent young researchers from all over the world in discussions about global health policies (in relation to clinical medicine, public health, environmental health and social studies of health and illness).

  Find out more about this here: https://globalyoungacademy.net/activities/global-health/

• Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration

  An interview with the authors of the book: Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. A dissemination project.

  Find out more here:
  https://globalyoungacademy.net/responsibility-for-refugee-and-migrant-integration-video-interview-with-the-authors/

• Introducing the World Sustainable Development Forum

  Few would disagree that there’s growing evidence showing the terrible impact of climate change on our planet, but what exactly is being done about it?

  Few would disagree that there’s growing evidence showing the terrible impact of climate change on our planet, but what exactly is being done about it? Although the Paris Climate Agreement is a step in the right direction, researchers and scientists believe that… more focus needs to be given to the technological, economic, and policy dimensions of the challenge facing modern society today, as we are tasked with preserving the planet’s natural resources. Ahead of the World Sustainable Development Forum in Mexico City this week, its President, Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, spoke to Traces.Dreams about the aims of the Forum, and the necessity in establishing long-term goals to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and protect the delicate ecosystems of our planet over the next century.

• Johanna Döbereiner

  Johanna Döbereiner (28.November 1924 – 5.October 2000) was a Brazilian agronomist. She played an important role in Brazil’s soybean production by encouraging a reliance on varieties that solely depended on biological nitrogen fixation.

• Álvaro Alberto Da Mota E Silva

  Alberto Álvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1889. He joined the Brazilian Navy in 1906, initiating an important trajectory that would change the direction of development in Brazil.

• Marcos Luiz Dos Mares

  Marcos Luiz dos Mares Guia (1935-2002) had his work recognized in numerous instances, inside and outside the academic environment. He is one of the most important researchers in the field of biotechnology in the country, Marcos was one of those responsible for the discovery of recombinant human insulin. He was also in charge of the foundation of Biobrás, a pioneer in the manufacture of insulin in Brazil.

• Milton Santos

  Milton Almeida dos Santos (May 3, 1926 – June 24, 2001) was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law. He became known for pioneer works in various fields in geography, notably urban development in developing countries. He is considered the father of Critical Geography in Brazil.

• Trailer – Introducing the mini series about Brazilian scientists, “Science creates development”

  We spoke with Dr. Marcia Barbosa, one of the directors of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), about the role of science in Brazil right now and about the mini-series “Science creates development”, produced by the Academy.

• Introducing the mini series about Brazilian scientists “Science creates development”

  "To glimpse into the future, tough, it is necessary to analyze the past and when it comes to the history of Brazilian science, the past is brilliant. Even though science financing was always inconsistent and precarious, Brazilian scientists were responsible for the invention of the polyvalent antiophidic serum; were the firsts to ever trace the entire cycle of a disease, — the Chagas Disease; and participated in the discovery of the meson pi particle. They have also discovered the bradykinin, a potent vasodilator that is used until now in the treatment of hypertension; Brazilian scientists were the firsts to complete a heart transplant in the Latin America and were the firsts to identify the Aedes aegypti as the transmitter of the yellow fever in Latin America.
  
  Even with the great achievements of the past, today, more than ever before, the practice of scientific outreach has a crucial role on the destiny of science in the country. The creation of public policies that protect the investments in this field will be a reality only when citizens and political representatives recognize what the scientific community emphasized for a long time: science creates development!123
  http://www.abc.org.br/en/a-instituicao/missao/

  “To glimpse into the future, tough, it is necessary to analyze the past and when it comes to the history of Brazilian science, the past is brilliant. Even though science financing was always inconsistent and precarious, Brazilian scientists were responsible for the invention of the polyvalent antiophidic serum; were the firsts to ever trace the entire cycle of a disease, — the Chagas Disease; and participated in the discovery of the meson pi particle. They have also discovered the bradykinin, a potent vasodilator that is used until now in the treatment of hypertension; Brazilian scientists were the firsts to complete a heart transplant in the Latin America and were the firsts to identify the Aedes aegypti as the transmitter of the yellow fever in Latin America.

  Even with the great achievements of the past, today, more than ever before, the practice of scientific outreach has a crucial role on the destiny of science in the country. The creation of public policies that protect the investments in this field will be a reality only when citizens and political representatives recognize what the scientific community emphasized for a long time: science creates development!

  http://www.abc.org.br/en/a-instituicao/missao/

• World Forum For Women In Science – Rio De Janeiro – 2020 – The Story

• World Forum For Women In Science – Rio De Janeiro – 2020 – The People

• World Forum For Women In Science – Rio De Janeiro – 2020 – The Content

• A conversation with Dr. Narong Sirilertworakul. President of NSTDA

  We met Dr. Narong Sirilertworakul a couple of weeks ago in Thailand. He is the President of Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency, an organization focused on increasing Thailand’s reputation as a global competitor in the fields of scientific research and technology, with the aim of modernising the country’s industries, growing GDP, and improving quality of life for the people of Thailand.

  We met Dr. Narong Sirilertworakul a couple of weeks ago in Thailand. He is the President of Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency, an organization focused on increasing… Thailand’s reputation as a global competitor in the fields of scientific research and technology, with the aim of modernising the country’s industries, growing GDP, and improving quality of life for the people of Thailand.
  Dr. Sirilertworakul holds a BA in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering. He has extensive experience in research, management, and quality, and was a founding member of the Thailand Quality Awards. Dr. Sirilertworakul also serves as a Chairman on the boards of several innovation and technology-based businesses.

• Future Narratives

• Fair News

• Merita

• Islanders

• Il Bullone

• Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture

The ‘Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture’ project was initiated by the European Commission to support capacity building and peer-learning activities for European Capitals of Culture (ECOCs).

The objective of the group is to bring together ECOCs delivery teams and stakeholders (experts, cultural and creative industries, cultural institutions, organisations and associations, etc. ) with a view to facilitate cooperation and stimulate discussion about main challenges, problems and opportunities for ECOCs (former, current, future ECOCs).

Traces&Dreams has collaborated with Interarts Foundation and Entcact to produce 25 podcasts and summaries of the workshops.

Find the podcasts here
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/capacity-building-for-european-capitals-of-culture/id1585342875

Here is one of the trailers:

Interview with Sylvain Pasqua

And some of our videos:

What are the digital challenges and opportunities for future ECOC’s cities?

How can we become better in audience development?

Academy Camp 1 – Audience development

• Future Narratives

• Fair News

• Merita

• Islanders

• Il Bullone

• Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture

https://www.fairnews.eu

In the current media landscape, in which young people are exposed to multiplying perspectives, the question of how knowledge is created, disseminated, and consumed is ever-more important. Young people need the ability to recognise bias and identify fair and trustworthy sources of news and information. Further, as the digital world becomes increasingly atomised, and much of social and civic life takes place online, many young people risk disconnection and isolation from the local, national, and international communities.

Fair News approaches these needs by seeking to empower high school students through an enhanced understanding of how media information works, based on a collaborative and learner-led approach. We aim to develop knowledge of how to navigate complexity and embrace ambiguity, developed from the principles of Theory of Knowledge and Media and Information Literacy.

Beyond learning in isolation, we will create broader connections between young people, to enhance their understanding of their reality, and to offer them spaces where they can experiment with and experience a knowledge community.

Traces&Dreams AB is the methodological partner focusing on developing the curricula regarding the theory of knowledge and social media literacy.

• Future Narratives

• Fair News

• Merita

• Islanders

• Il Bullone

• Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture

Traces&Dreams AB developed and coordinates the Future Narratives Project.

By harnessing the power of narrative, we can imagine and create a positive and sustainable future for ourselves, our communities and our world.

Future Narratives is a transnational project involving youth organisations and stakeholders across Europe, co-funded by Erasmus+. Our goal is to engage, connect, and empower young people, enabling their voices and their vision to reach out to policy-makers, public administrations, civil society and other young people all over Europe.

Based on the UNESCO concept of Futures Literacy, the capability to decide why and how to use our imagination to introduce the future into the present, we believe that the power of storytelling can enable us to reimagine our pasts, presents and futures.

Through our digital platform, you can follow our learning journey as we create and curate content on narrative, storytelling and future literacy. We will share knowledge, innovation and dialogue, for young people, youth organisations and all those interested in using narrative to reimagine our future together.

• Future Narratives

• Fair News

• Merita

• Islanders

• Il Bullone

• Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture

This is an Erasmus + small-scale project with 2 partners:
Fondazione Near Onlus e Traces&Dreams AB.

Fondazione Near Onlus started in 2012 il bullone, a monthly newspaper created by the B. Livers, young people with serious chronic diseases, by students and volunteers.

Il Bullone, however, is not a journal about the disease, but is a journal that authentically tells today from another point of view.

The newspaper promotes the social responsibility of individuals, organizations and companies. Next to the director is Sofia Segre, editorial coordinator: “This activity serves to exorcise fear and look to the future with confidence and optimism. A newspaper written by our kids who have seen life pass before their eyes and today they want to see it straight in the eye. But a search for essentiality”.

“The ideas on the topics to be covered and the people to be interviewed are chosen by the students during the editorial meeting or, as we call it, the report meeting. – comments the director Giancarlo Perego – Initially they focused on their doctors, then they began to range on professionals, entrepreneurs, visionaries capable and strong in their knowledge. They do high-level journalistic work, they tell stories by teaching us long-time professional journalists, too often locked up in our own castle, a great lesson: that of authenticity, not to beat around the bush, to get straight to the problem and to out write with respect total sensitivity of those who live or have lived experiences of illness.”

The project is about bringing the experiece of il bullone from Italy to Sweden and plan for an European edition of il bullone.

• Future Narratives

• Fair News

• Merita

• Islanders

• Il Bullone

• Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture

Many islands – One community is coordinated by Traces&Dreams AB, which cooperates with youth organizations in Estonia, Greece, Malta and Portugal that are based on an island.

It will involve 60-80 participants aged between 15-25, with the aim of using storytelling as a way to develop young people’s creative, social and digital skills in while promoting inclusion and sustainability at a range of levels – environmental, cultural, societal and European.

Activities include:
– training of youth workers, online and in Greece (9 months);
– development and implementation of a course for young people through local labs, an online pilot course and a transnational LTTA in Brussels (14 months);
– creation of a digital platform for education, for an ongoing community and for disseminating participants’ insights (24 months);
– dissemination of results (18 months). It is intended as a transferable and developable model at the European level.

• Future Narratives

• Fair News

• Merita

• Islanders

• Il Bullone

• Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture

MERITA – where chamber Music, cultural hERI tage and TAlent meet is an online and offline platform that increases the visibility and circulation of emerging European string quartets by innovating and improving the sustainability of the music industry increasing access and participation in cultural activities promoting European cultural heritage strengthening connections between local and European culture, and between online and offline engagement.

Winner of the Creative Europe – European Platforms 2021 and co-funded by the European Union, the project’s development lasts 3 years and is run by 17 cultural institutions from 12 European countries. It involves 38 string quartets for a total of 152 artists.

Through the digital platform, MERITA will showcase artists, present cultural sites and historic houses, educational materials, networking and content for the public, panel of online and on-site activities, i.e. trainings, artistic residencies, transnational and international circulation of young artists, studies and research.

The platform also allows new audiences to be brought closer to classical music and places of historical interest. It aims to become a reference point for (young) chamber musicians and practitioners, forming the basis for a new and lasting business model.

Traces&dreams AB is the partner in charge of the digital platform, and co-responsible for the communications strategy, the online training and the content creation.

Traces&Dream`s Projects:

Future Narratives

Traces&Dreams AB developed and coordinates the Future Narratives Project.

By harnessing the power of narrative, we can imagine and create a positive and sustainable future for ourselves, our communities and our world.
Future Narratives is a transnational project involving youth organisations and stakeholders across Europe, co-funded by Erasmus+. Our goal is to engage, connect, and empower young people, enabling their voices and their vision to reach out to policy-makers, public administrations, civil society and other young people all over Europe.

Based on the UNESCO concept of Futures Literacy, the capability to decide why and how to use our imagination to introduce the future into the present, we believe that the power of storytelling can enable us to reimagine our pasts, presents and futures.

Through our digital platform, you can follow our learning journey as we create and curate content on narrative, storytelling and future literacy. We will share knowledge, innovation and dialogue, for young people, youth organisations and all those interested in using narrative to reimagine our future together.

Traces&Dream`s Projects:

Fair News

In the current media landscape, in which young people are exposed to multiplying perspectives, the question of how knowledge is created, disseminated, and consumed is ever-more important. Young people need the ability to recognise bias and identify fair and trustworthy sources of news and information. Further, as the digital world becomes increasingly atomised, and much of social and civic life takes place online, many young people risk disconnection and isolation from the local, national, and international communities.

Fair News approaches these needs by seeking to empower high school students through an enhanced understanding of how media information works, based on a collaborative and learner-led approach. We aim to develop knowledge of how to navigate complexity and embrace ambiguity, developed from the principles of Theory of Knowledge and Media and Information Literacy.

Beyond learning in isolation, we will create broader connections between young people, to enhance their understanding of their reality, and to offer them spaces where they can experiment with and experience a knowledge community.

Traces&Dreams AB is the methodological partner focusing on developing the curricula regarding the theory of knowledge and social media literacy.